March of the Chicken-Man
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“Tak-Dae-Ga-Ri?is Korean for “Chicken-man? He is a simple-minded person who has no common sense and a silly person who doesn't have personality. He can’t adopt to change and just follows the flock. Tons of eggs are cloned in production line of the factory and then chicken men are born in the world. In the world of war, pollution, drug, violence, sexualism, and different ideologies, the story shows how people lose sight of the fact and follow the stream of majority for survival. People at current society are satirized as ‘Chicken men?
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Hyemee Choi (their other films)
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| Producer: Choi, Hyemee |
Genre: Animation |
| Country: USA |
Copyright Year: 2003 |
| Original Format: 2D Animation |
Color Type: Color |
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Length: 00:02:30 |
| Original Language: None |
Subtitle Language: None |
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Label:
Blackchair Collection
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Other Info:
Hardware.
SGI O2, Windows 2000
Sony DV Recorder DSR-250, Sony Trinitron Color Monitor PVM-8220
Language.
C++, OpenGL, IFL(Image Format Library)
Software.
Adobe After Effects 5.0, Photoshop 7.0, Painter 6.0,
Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0, OpenGL, Image Format Library,
DPS Reality 8.0, DPS Velocity 8.0, Soundforge 5.0
Technical Statement.
This 2D animation consists of illustrations and repeated video sprites.
First of all, I took live footage of a chicken man’s walking with blue screen and then an infinite loop of human cyclic motion was generated from original video sequences using my C++ program. The general approach of the program is to analyze the similarities of each frames of an input sequence to find possibility of smooth transition for looping and then it creates minimum output frames in order to make a continuous and natural looping of human cyclic motion without significant discontinuities. The program is written in C++ together with OpenGL and Image Format Library.
After I got a generated loop of chicken man’s walk cycle, I duplicated it to make the flock. Adobe Photoshop 7.0 and Painter 6.0 were mainly used to draw background illustration. At last, all visual elements were imported to several project files of Adobe After Effects. For final compositing of character ‘Chicken man?and background drawing, over 150 layers for each project were created and animated.
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Music:
Ramsey Noah |
| Film Website: http://www-viz.tamu.edu/faculty/ergun/research/motioncapture/library/project/ |
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Independent Exposure Exhibition
April Showers 2004 (MC-201)
| 2004 | Program available for theatrical exhibition |
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