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Just whistle. You know how to whistle don't you?

Incidentally, I don't mean that whistling will cause Westerm Music to appear- I mean that whistling is Western Music.

I doubt this new Dr Who is low budget by modern BBC standards, though. They seem to be hoping for a saturday night ratings winner, so I imagine they invested quite a bit in it.

It cost around £10m, which is twice what you'd expect a regular British Rom-Com film to cost.

The CGI was done by the fellas that did Gladiator, which looked pretty convincing if memory served. I think one of the problems with the Dr Who special effects is that there are too many effects sequences. They can't all be convincing.

Look out for Cassandra the skin lady though, she's entirely CG and looks pretty good.

Ithe still use the crap looking fade away with the police box!

Watch out for a later snowy episode. Apparently the Tardis disappears and the settled snow flutters down to the ground.

[fishing rod]

My girlfriend once dropped a key out of a window and it landed on the roof below.

We made a fishing rod out of a Bug catcher, sellotape, a weight and a bent paperclip.

Needless to say, we were victorious!

This is a very pleasant image. It might be worth altering the text on the sign though it looks a little squashed as it is. That's a minor point though!

Perception is driving me crazy. It looks like the the entire building is the size of the cow bone(?). Perhaps you could "fade" that portion of the cliff a bit, like you did to the the other bits in the background

I presumed that the stack/column-rocky-thing-with-builings on was way in the distance, not attached to the plateau that the skull and sign are on.

I don't think they opted not to have Matthew Broderick again, I think he refused to do it...

Sorry, my ramblings were unclear. I prefer the wierd unmarried uncle-gadget from the cartoon to pretty-boy Broderick in the film. I didn't know they'd made a sequel, curse them.

[GADGET BOY!]

Well, I'm not going to let this spoil the old looney tunes.

I'm angry though because this thread has reminded me of GADGET BOY!

Go-go-gadget-boy-killing-um-thing...

And now I've remembered the inspector gadget movie. I can't believe they swapped a romatic lead Matthew Broderick for a mysteriously unmarried uncle who always wears a trenchcoat...

I'm sorry if this seems off topic, but things I hate about Inspector Gadget spin-offs is the topic that I'm generally on in my life.

but from an AGS perspective, a character walking around with that kind of lighting pattern is going to stand out like a sore thumb.

I think it's a nicely lit image but stuh505 has a good point. You could try moving your keylight to the left to throw the tree's shadow against the wall, or add a supplementary fill to diminish the shadow - though that would probably ruin the scene's atmosphere.

Presuming this is a night time shot, you could make your lamps a little more yellow/ornge - streetlights produce almost totally yellow light and most artificial lights are slightly yellow. This might not work, but it could.

I've looked at real-wrold objects thinking "I could SO grind that" after I played too much Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2.

I had exactly the same thing - you know it's bad when you're trying to spot gaps.

"If I could ollie from the library over the bus..."

I said Simon the Sorcerer, not Monkey Island! I demand this affront is rectified!

Rectified:


Umm, actually...

Actually, I'm not sure this would be a very good film...

[The Simpsons]

Sometimes entirely the wrong emphasis or tone was used, and it was off putting.

That bothers me too - I think it's a consequence of recording actors individually rather than like a radio play (as The Simpsons does). I can't imagine the lengths they go to on films like Shrek (which recorded actors separately) to make sure the same thing doesn't happen.

My computer speakers have picked up taxi drivers' radios before. Or maybe taxi driving aliens' radios...

[Cleaning my gun with the safety off,safety off,safety off,Cleaning my gun with the safety- <BANG!>]

Homer singing:
Cleaning my gun with the safety off,
safety off,
safety off,
Cleaning my gun with the safety- <BANG!>

Also:
Stealing, stealing, stealing a car for Moe,
Doo-doo d-doo d-doo doo,
Insurance fraud today!

They don't really work without the tunes...

['combination lock']

I beat it with 'combination lock', but it's beaten me many times before. Plus 'lock' was one of the 'was it?' list afterwards.

I had a go at a kind of shading I'd never really attempted. I've been working on concept art for a character (not specifically for a game). I wondered what people thought.



He's a scientist by the way.

Patrick does look as if he's checking the escape routes...


The similar noses don't bother me, you've made them look distinct but clearly within the same style. I think they'd look really nice coloured - or even just painted over in black and white.

Original Images:
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My money's on the Westfork Spiders, but the Hightrowel Grumblers are a strong team as well.

[Hamlet]

We must also remember that the LANGUAGE and sheer amount of "solilóquios" (however that is spelt in English) is a big obstacle for a more "traditional" movie.

It's "soliloquies", and I agree it is something of an obstacle in adapting plays for film. I think Brannagh's "My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth" in Hamlet worked incredibly well though, with that terrific tracking shot. It just wasn't in the style of run-of-the-mill films.

Clockwork Orange is another interesting adaptation. I find the film and book to be so terrifically distinct that I can't compare them. Such are the nature of the media I suppose.

I agree that book to film adaptations often fail, but I'm glad that the Lord of the Rings Trilogy has proven that books aren't necessarily better than films.

I believe trilogy is an excellent series of films, but I find Tolkien's writing is impenetrably dull.

I thought the Lemony Snicket film was quite effective as well.