Somewhere in lurking through #CMC11 I stumbled across Gordon Lockhart’s CCK11 blog posting, Man! This MOOC is Something Else! It’s the kind of delightfully tongue-in-cheek dialog I enjoy. When I asked him via a comment, if he’d considered animating it with Xtranormal, he was kind enough to encourage me to go ahead with it. Sure, just copy and paste the lines, I thought. What was I thinking?
Xtranormal does a pretty fair job of animating characters to speak any dialog you can type. But it also has a half-dozen controls you can creatively drag and drop into the text to tailor it more finely. After looking at Gordon’s previous Xtranormal creation, I realized I had a hard act to follow. Xtranormal on automatic wasn’t going to do him justice. So here’s the animated version of Gordon’s blog post, completed at 2:00 AM Monday morning at the point where my creativity and my perfectionism finally reached equilibrium.
Thank you Gordon. It was fun.
Man! this Mooc is Something Else
by: upNorth
If your browser has trouble with the embedded viewer, you can watch it here, or on YouTube.
Now something silly is serious…the perfect package for the message, an cartoon in a dorm room where old is young and young is old…too many connections gotta stop..thanks for this
You did a great job Jim. Gordon was one if the bright lights for me in the previous MOOC – a lot of experience, deuced common sense to balance the academic and a great sense of humour to boot
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This is a hoot. I love it.
Fabulous uptake on Lockhart’s MOOC commentary! Love it and posted wherever I could find to post. You have a solid acting/directing/dialogue coaching career ahead of you now!!