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Post by Michael D. Kimpton on Feb 3, 2019 13:33:49 GMT
Is it the same team who did Power of the Daleks and A Stripe for Frazer?
If so, I can't help but feel worried.
Power of the Daleks was great, but there were times where I felt they could have done with another week to fix some of the shots that felt a bit odd.
Ben didn't seem right to me; he always had a droopy and angry look to him, which Michael Craze didn't have.
I also wonder how they'll incorporate the surviving footage.
Planet 55 would rotoscope it into the episodes, like with Reign of Terror (sometimes) and Tenth Planet. But it seemed with Power that they seemed to discard the surviving footage and instead animate their own shots and angles, compensating only by featuring a surviving footage reel as an extra.
The episode would have served better if they rotoscoped surviving footage to make it more like what was seen in 1966.
All that aside, I doubt for one second that I'll NOT buy the dvd anyway. But going the extra mile to use what's already available and thus cut down on creating new shots and angles would be a benefit. After all, it's easier to rotoscope surviving material today than it was in the past, especially when you look at the 1978 Lord of the Rings and how they rotoscoped material.
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Post by charles drummel on Feb 3, 2019 18:21:17 GMT
They also did Shada, which was a big step up from Power and Stripe.
Rotoscoping is great, when there's the time needed to get it done. But I think it fits better with the Planet 55 style of effectively 3D characters. Cosgrove Hall made good use of rotoscoping in Invasion, for the purpose of showing character silhouettes sneak around and such. It can't be done for every shot, but doing so once in a while reminds the viewer that characters don't simply move by bobbing around. That said, the walk cycles in Shada were massively improved from Power.
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Post by lousingh on Feb 4, 2019 17:49:02 GMT
I would like some collaboration from the BBC to take the lessons learnt from the software developers from previous project so that future animations take less time and/or the companies are more productive the next time someone makes one.
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Post by scotttelfer on Feb 5, 2019 13:16:17 GMT
I would like some collaboration from the BBC to take the lessons learnt from the software developers from previous project so that future animations take less time and/or the companies are more productive the next time someone makes one.
They'll take as much time as they take to make.
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Post by Richard Bignell on Feb 5, 2019 13:27:54 GMT
I would like some collaboration from the BBC to take the lessons learnt from the software developers from previous project so that future animations take less time and/or the companies are more productive the next time someone makes one. If they took notice of the lessons learned, they'd probably be giving the animation team twice the amount of time than they actually are to complete the job.
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Post by charles drummel on Feb 11, 2019 15:55:25 GMT
I would like some collaboration from the BBC to take the lessons learnt from the software developers from previous project so that future animations take less time and/or the companies are more productive the next time someone makes one. If they took notice of the lessons learned, they'd probably be giving the animation team twice the amount of time than they actually are to complete the job. I was initially hoping the fact that the release switched to a different time of year for the third BBC Studios animation meant that they were giving the team a more flexible schedule. But based on what Mr. Ritchie has tweeted, it sounds like it will be the usual grind to get it finished in the nick of time. Oh well.
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Post by Lucy Wagner on Mar 4, 2019 13:49:56 GMT
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Post by Qasim Yusuf on Mar 4, 2019 15:01:47 GMT
The cover looks awful but the special features look great.
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Post by Luke Sherlaw on Mar 4, 2019 17:39:14 GMT
The normal edition cover looks pretty bad, the steelbook cover looks fairly decent.
Then again, a high bar has been set in recent years for DVD covers. The EOTW special edition cover was absolutely stunning.
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Post by Michael D. Kimpton on Mar 4, 2019 21:40:37 GMT
I can live with the cover. I've seen worse.
The original version of Robots of Death, for instance. That was just a publicity still.
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Post by Robert Lia on Mar 4, 2019 23:44:46 GMT
Ill watch the black and white version of the 2nd DVD first then the extras and one day the colour version of the animation
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Post by Jon Preddle on Mar 5, 2019 2:42:21 GMT
Ill watch the black and white version of the 2nd DVD first then the extras and one day the colour version of the animation I'll probably do the same. For me, the b/w version will be the default with which to watch the story, with the colour one playing while listening to the commentary and reading text info.
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Post by mattg on Mar 5, 2019 8:23:11 GMT
Blimey, those cover designs look awful! Glad I preordered the steel book months ago as that's turned out to be by far the better design. Also, though inevitable I suppose, it's a shame that they chose to utilise the new logo for this release. The last thing 'Macra' needs is to be tarnished by, well, each to their own I guess. On a more positive note Macra's extras are far more plentiful than I had expected and it's nice to see the inclusion of that bizarre 10 minute, pseudo 'proof of concept' Wheel in Space animated sequence that nobody can quite explain the existence of! Though it's frustrating the release date was put back slightly (it's now late March apparently) it looks like it'll be worth the wait. Good stuff.
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Post by Jaspal Cheema on Mar 5, 2019 12:42:58 GMT
The cover portrait of Troughton looks as if they've forgotten to place his recorder in his hand...
But I love the comprehensive mix of extras-commentaries and production notes for the animation and for the recons.I've ordered the steelbook and can't wait for it to arrive!
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Post by christian bews on Mar 5, 2019 19:36:33 GMT
i just ordered the cheaper DVD version,shame about the cover but i'd rather watch the colour version first.
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