Hey guys, I have been working on a little something to help promote the site. I am producing a minute or so long promotional video with all of the things our site has to offer. It will cover the Cartoon Section (Episode guide, Encyclopedia, Animation Art) Toys ( Toy Guide, Variations etc) Comics (Comic Guide, Original Art etc) and promote our forum and news offerings.
I am just under half way and have a preview to show you all.
For some of it I have re-drawn parts of the ThunderCats Introduction (to avoid copyright issues) Below are a few of the drawings I have done for the animation. Something like 200 frames of animation have been re-drawn. So this is no small task.
Kyle, you make an old man very happy! Your work is just the most amazing thing ever, and to actually re-animate the first few seconds of the opening titles - wowsers! :jaw:
We’ll have to catch up on Skype/MSN sometime (Neil too if he’s reading this) - things are totally mad for me at the moment, log on to www.willowsfolkclub.org for the latest disaster, and don’t get me bloody started on my (non-)love life - but, I am still pottering with stuff for the site as and when my time allows, and hope to have an update to the Episode Guide to show you guys in the not too distant future!
After all the hard work of putting this together.. I ran out os steam when it came to chasing the Youtube site information. With Neil back around hopefully he can post the information for this to allow us to get it out there at last..
Thanks for the info, my friend - I must admit, it would be good to get this out there, even if only to post on our forums. So much of your hard work went into it, it would be a shame if it was only us on the team who saw it!
Dang, that’s incredible. I don’t think the voiceover w/ Larry Kenney at the beginning works well with the video & the music - the ‘HOOO’ at the end does, though.
I think the thing about the voiceover is that it adds a bit of “credibility” to the site, if you like - that the voice actor who played Lion-O has (at least apparently) given the site a thumbs-up, and that’s why it works well in the promo IMO.
I believe that was the original plan - I actually thought this site had its own YouTube account, but when I looked up the clip that Neil uploaded, it was actually on his own personal account: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgArjRcgYdw …
Maybe something to think about would be setting this site up with its own YouTube “channel”, that material of interest could be added to? In addition to the promo video, in the past we’ve been able to rip some video clips that are unique to ThunderCats Lair that could get the site some more exposure if added to YouTube - the biggest thing is that the video clips may need “watermarking” (like the one of Neil’s above). What do you guys think?
It’s not the voiceover that’s a problem - it’s how it’s been inserted. It sounds quiet and with what’s going on in the background and such, it doesn’t actually ‘fit’. It’s a very uncomfortable edit - no offence meant or anything, that’s just how it comes across. It doesn’t belong there - maybe in the middle of the video as a ‘welcome’, not when the intro’s going on.
