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by **mmmmm** » Sun Nov 02, 2008 7:45 pm

i thought id post the most recent episode of a web series i am trying to make called "county ghost".

i apologize for the poor quality, i cant quite figure out how to post a youtube video in high quality on this forum.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0BO2yIBXeE&fmt=18[/youtube]

and if you are interested, the first episode is available here:
www.countyghost.com

thanks!

by **atarimonkey** » Sun Nov 02, 2008 8:45 pm

I Like!!

by **nickbachman** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 8:59 pm

Hey Mike, that looks great! Love everything about it! Sound design is particularly excellent, I could listen to the HB FX library all day long. Looking forward to the next installment of county ghost!

by **afromation** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 7:06 pm

great work

by **jmad72** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 8:34 pm

HA! Real good stuff!

What program..if any..did you use?

by **nickbachman** » Thu Dec 25, 2008 1:20 pm

I'll chime in, it's Flash.

by **mmmmm** » Fri Jan 02, 2009 7:24 pm

hey there.
sorry bout the late reply here.

ya, nick was correct, i used flash and then dropped it through after effects to apply the glow to the ghost.
the backgrounds are all drawn in flash and then painted with painter and imported back in as jpegs.

hope that helps,
mike geiger

by **faroukbaaaaa** » Fri Jan 02, 2009 7:39 pm

I really dig these country ghost numbers. So many wee things that tickle me in them
Could you tell me how long in total it would take you to create an episode?
I don't mean like over a month grabbing time, I mean simply how long totally in hours.
if you don't want to say then no bother i was just interested

by **mmmmm** » Fri Jan 02, 2009 8:58 pm

hey faroukbaaaaa,
im a big fan of your work by the way.

its a little tough to answer because my response would probably be "a month grabbing time".
but ima guess maybe 250 hours?
its a little skewed because id say about half of my time spent on these is exporting png sequences, dividing layers for after effects, exporting quicktimes for final cut, rendering files, etc,etc,etc.
so minus all that technical stuff, id be guessing maybe 120-150 hours to have it completed in flash?
i sorta set boundaries up front so that i could allow myself to actually complete these on top of doing my normal daytime animation job without losing all of my sanity.
i told myself that i wouldnt allow myself to go back and "fix" anything. once its done, its done and i would just continue to move forward with the trade off that they would actually get finished and out the door.
so far, it seems like a good way to avoid a lot of frustration. it can be a little unnerving to be releasing work that you know have some obvious mistakes. but again, the trade off is that you are actually releasing work, instead of sitting on it tinkering with the small details.

anyways, im glad you guys are enjoying them. episode 3 will be up sunday night!

mike geiger

by **mmmmm** » Sun Jan 04, 2009 4:26 pm

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YlI8j96pU8[/youtube]
i just uploaded the third episode of county ghost called "coast to coast ghost" and thought id share.

again, i apologize for the terrible quality,
if you want to check it out in nice high def wide screen quality, please just click on this youtube link below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YlI8j96pU8&fmt=18

hope you enjoy it...
and thanks!

mike geiger
http://www.mikegeiger.com

by **faroukbaaaaa** » Sun Jan 04, 2009 4:32 pm

champion!! (that is lancashire for 'nice one')
The cows legs did it for me, very silly

thanks for the information too very much a lot ta

by **Vic Marine** » Sun Jan 04, 2009 5:28 pm

Mike!
These are great. I just posted them over on http://www.canadiananimationresources.ca, hope you don't mind. Keep it up!
Mike Valiquette

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