Squeeko: The Tale of a Psychopath

[Ond]

So, some of you know I've been busy with 'other' projects.  One of those was helping my eldest daughter to complete her high school final year media assignment.  She commandeered our home theater for about 5 months, we stripped the room, built a stage, put in a cyc, built sets, and proceeded to shoot over 3500 frames of stop motion photography.  It helps if you've seen the (original) film Psycho for some context re:what its about, but it still stands on its own as a short 6 min film.

My wife did the screaming....with great enthusiasm , so much so I was shhhing her in fear of neighbors ringing the cops  .  I did the voices for 'Perky' and others......Anyway check it out:



The HT is now my again to continue refurbishing and finishing.  I'm turning my attention to things arcade once again so there should be build updates along...any day now

[Endprodukt]

Wow, that was awesome. Great work from all of you. Looks really good and the car scenes made me giggle. Too bad about the sound artifacts that are related to pitchshifting too heavy but I'm an sound engineer and no one will care. A+!

[TopJimmyCooks]

Really nice and great work for a high school student.  Looks like she's got a great future in film!  Peter Jackson's right across the puddle in NZ you know.   The model of the house was well done.

[Ond]

Wow, that was awesome. Great work from all of you. Looks really good and the car scenes made me giggle. Too bad about the sound artifacts that are related to pitchshifting too heavy but I'm an sound engineer and no one will care. A+!

Thanks!  I sure am proud of Suzi, she had a fun idea for the assignment, cute and a bit disturbing all at once.  Given more time we would have sorted the pitch shifting issues but she only just managed to finish the post production in time for the submission cut-off.

Really nice and great work for a high school student.  Looks like she's got a great future in film!  Peter Jackson's right across the puddle in NZ you know.   The model of the house was well done.

Thanks TJC, she wants to be writer, I'd be thrilled for her to be either a director or writer (or both).  The best fun I had in helping out was solving some of the technical challenges to her ideas.  Some examples,  I thought of using food colored porridge (oats) for the car sinking into the swamp scene, this totally didn't work out.  We instead used finely ground up foam rubber floating on water.  Creating the wizened mummified 'Mother' character I carved and shaped a character from polystyrene and then gave it a short blast with a hot air gun to shrivel it a little, and then painted it, worked great!  That movie prop now takes pride of place on her bedroom shelf under the tree we made from coat hanger, wire, foam rubber and tiling cement.

Anyone wants a great recipe for fake blood, ping me, I perfected one that looked so damn real it was freaky.

[spoot]

Pretty neat.  I liked the fact it went "old-school" with film grain/dirt.   

[Ond]

Pretty neat.  I liked the fact it went "old-school" with film grain/dirt.   

Thanks, that was a lot of fun,  Suzi and I had to learn a bunch of things in Adobe After Effects to get that effect - YouTube is so useful!

[Donkey_Kong]

Another A+ here. After seeing the very first of 3500 frames (the house), I knew it was going to be great. haha!       

[Dawgz Rule]

All I can say is....Wow!  Well done.