{"id":195,"date":"2019-11-19T06:19:24","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T06:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/?p=195"},"modified":"2019-11-19T06:19:30","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T06:19:30","slug":"i-make-important-things-for-work-star-wars-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/19\/i-make-important-things-for-work-star-wars-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"I make important things for work (Star Wars Edition)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My students are shooting a film that includes a light saber battle, so I found a tutorial to help them figure out the effects. This is my rough test footage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/saber-with-sound.mp4\"><\/video><figcaption>George Lucas named Luke Skywalker after me.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Some things:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Rotoscoping is annoying and tedious.<\/li><li>Rotoscoping is even more annoying and tedious when you realize halfway through it that you haven&#8217;t been setting keyframes.<\/li><li>It&#8217;s easier to to animate large movements.<\/li><li>It&#8217;s hard to match up prerecorded light saber sounds to new video. None of the sounds in this clip are timed properly, and most of them are the wrong sound altogether. I would have faked it with mouth noises, but Katherine is asleep and doesn&#8217;t need to wake up to me making buzzes and space burps.<\/li><li>Square ended light sabers look weird.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I also made this opening for the morning bulletin. A few nerds on campus will get it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/morning-bulletin-mandolorian-opening.mp4\"><\/video><figcaption>And all of them will be annoyed by it.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just Star Wars Things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":10,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30,29],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-star-wars","category-work","tag-star-wars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions\/201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}