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KajunFirefly
August 22, 2002 5:28 PM

Ok, so I've talked about it for a while and now it's finally here. This took me 3 MONTHS to create, and although I've been less than polite about other people's comics in the past, remember that they only take a couple of minutes to create.

It's not the most original or spectacular piece of animation in the world, in fact it's quite below par and NOTHING when compared to the likes of Futurama or The Simpsons, but they aren't made with blood, sweat and tears.

There's no background track, I ran out of time and if I can be arsed, I'll slap one on, there IS sound, but with the long periods of silence it seems a bit out of place.

So please, don't insult me for this, if you think it's crap, just keep it yourself, I don't come round your house and complain about the wallpaper.

anyway

Click here to be Cornholed!

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Drexle
August 22, 2002 6:11 PM

I'll download it tomorrow at school.

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Smarmulus
August 22, 2002 7:39 PM

Kajun, I am very much looking forward to seeing your animation. I saw the still you posted in the "talent required" section and it looked quite good. However, when I click on the link above nothing happens. Any tips?

And, yes I'm on a PC.

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andydougan
August 22, 2002 7:58 PM

This is the worst animation I've ever seen. If I were you, I'd stick to making comics. Oh, wait, you're no good at that either.

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andydougan
August 22, 2002 7:59 PM

Just yankin' yer chain. I've started downloading it now, but I'll probably have to get the rest tomorrow. I agree with Smarmulus that the still looked promising.

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DragonXero
August 22, 2002 8:03 PM

I wish my connection wasn't shite.

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wirthling
August 22, 2002 10:35 PM

Nicely done, Tommy! I wish it were longer (the film, not Tobor's telescoping phallus).

I liked how you used Clango to represent the nostalgic naivety of the suburban mainstream, while Tobor personifies the creeping darkness within society that threatens to expose our insecurities and fear of the future. And the telescoping phallus was cool, too.

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Smarmulus
August 23, 2002 12:12 AM

TOBOR WILL CORNHOLE YOU!

After three hours of download time I finally got to see you movie. I enjoyed it very much.

You've got more guts than I do. I would have never have the nerve to show that to a professor and class of fellow students when I was in college. You are a brave man.

Good choice of Drexle for the voice.

My only critique - I wish Tobor had said,"RAAARR!!! TOBOR WILL CORNHOLE YOU!!!!!!" A very minor point, however.

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Bazilla
August 23, 2002 12:40 AM

Noooooooooooooo! Damn Quicktime! For some reason it never gets downloaded when I download it! I'll just take your word for it that it is great, unless there's a way to get it on flash?

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KajunFirefly
August 23, 2002 3:59 AM

quote:
My only critique - I wish Tobor had said,"RAAARR!!! TOBOR WILL CORNHOLE YOU!!!!!!" A very minor point, however.
The reason I had to cut the "RAAAAR" from Drexle's wav file is that the scene with Tobor talking/laughing was too short, and because the camera pans, if I were to try and slice in a few extra frames, it'd look like it's skipping.

quote:
I wish it were longer (the film, not Tobor's telescoping phallus).
The whole thing does run too quickly and it's kind of over before you really know what the fuck you've just seen, but then we were only told to make a 30 second animation, I just dragged mine out with credits and transitions.

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Noooooooooooooo! Damn Quicktime! For some reason it never gets downloaded when I download it! I'll just take your word for it that it is great, unless there's a way to get it on flash?
It HAS to be quicktime, I can't think of any way in which I can display it in Flash..... yet. However the last part of my course is to create a Digital CV using Flash to display my work, so I imagine there may be some neat little trick, but I haven't learned it yet.

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Nicely done, Tommy!
Please, the name's Kajun, Tommy's what all those normal people call me.

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I liked how you used Clango to represent the nostalgic naivety of the suburban mainstream, while Tobor personifies the creeping darkness within society that threatens to expose our insecurities and fear of the future. And the telescoping phallus was cool, too.
I tried to pass it off as a "love story" but they wouldn't listen. I'm glad you saw the message I was trying to convey. Did you also spot the "random cube" at the start? When I rendered the scene I forgot to delete one of the primitives and it just sat there slightly out of shot, I now claim that she represents the "futility of man".

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kramer_vs_kramer
August 23, 2002 4:03 AM

I liked it! Although I don't get where the dream sequence with the kittens comes in.

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KajunFirefly
August 23, 2002 4:08 AM

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I liked it! Although I don't get where the dream sequence with the kittens comes in.

I was trying to make the audience think that Tobor might really be a human who has just become so twisted and evil from living in a society of robots that he has resorted to violent rape as his only form of pleasure.

Wait...

What the fuck are you talking about?

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Smarmulus
August 23, 2002 5:44 AM

Woke up. Got out of bed. Watched the Quicktime movie "Tobor" yet again. Laughed with glee.

Thanks for sharing Caje.

I should have mentioned previously how much I liked your artwork. The street and 'bots are very well drawn.

To Baz I think (see above)- It will load for Quicktime. You have to right click and save the file. If you are on a modem it may take three hours, but it's worth it. Just leave your computer computer on and go about life for a while and then return.

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DexX
August 23, 2002 8:41 AM

Coming soon... Kajun Firefly Studios, in association with Pixar Films, and Ralph Bakshi...

Tobor: The Feature Film!

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wirthling
August 23, 2002 8:52 AM

quote:
quote:
Nicely done, Tommy!
Please, the name's Kajun, Tommy's what all those normal people call me.

I had a real duh moment when viewing the credits. I thought, "Who's this 'Tommy' person? Must be a friend of Kajun--oh, duh."

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quote:
I liked how you used Clango to represent the nostalgic naivety of the suburban mainstream, while Tobor personifies the creeping darkness within society that threatens to expose our insecurities and fear of the future. And the telescoping phallus was cool, too.
I tried to pass it off as a "love story" but they wouldn't listen. I'm glad you saw the message I was trying to convey. Did you also spot the "random cube" at the start? When I rendered the scene I forgot to delete one of the primitives and it just sat there slightly out of shot, I now claim that she represents the "futility of man".

I saw "random cube" in the credits but didn't notice it in the movie. I'll have to go back and look for it.

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kramer_vs_kramer
August 23, 2002 9:00 AM

Rock on, Tommy!

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Drexle
August 23, 2002 9:06 AM

5{ready know what could have been improved, you said it yourself. So with that in mind, I have to say that this was a fun little movie. Now it needs to go down as a cult icon of robotic sodomy so that I can have my place in internet posterity.

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KajunFirefly
August 23, 2002 1:44 PM

Here is the random cube:

Thank you for your comments Drexle, you rule!

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Drexle
August 23, 2002 1:47 PM

Where the hell did my last post go?!

Anyhow, what I basically said was that you yourself already pointed out what could have been done better, so there's no need for me to. I thought it was a lot of fun! Now you need to actively work to make this little movie the founder, and most well known of the soon-to-be-born Robotic Sodomy film genre. My place in the annals of internet history depend on it.

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Drexle
August 23, 2002 1:49 PM

I of course re-posted because I don't know if you were just looking at my vanished post and being sarcastic, or if it dissapeared after you posted just then.

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KajunFirefly
August 23, 2002 2:21 PM

Yeah, I was being sarcastic, but you still rule!

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Brad
August 23, 2002 3:44 PM

Wow! That was really excellent, Kajun. Fantastic, funny stuff.

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KajunFirefly
August 23, 2002 4:13 PM

Whahey!

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andydougan
August 23, 2002 4:31 PM

Bah. I can't get it to work. Quicktime tells me I don't have the right compressor: a problem I encountered a while ago while trying to watch the Two Towers trailer. Any ideas?

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KajunFirefly
August 23, 2002 4:39 PM

Do you have the latest edition of Quicktime? The older versions couldn't run .mov files on a PC.

Windows Media Player might run it, depending on which version you're using.

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Smarmulus
August 23, 2002 5:49 PM

You'll need to download the upgraded version of Quicktime. I had the same problem initially. It's free so it can't hurt (not the way Tobor can hurt!)

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andydougan
August 23, 2002 8:57 PM

Well, I just tried that, and it still doesn't work. If you can keep it up for a while, Kajun (the file, that is), I'll see if I can download it on someone else's computer.

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KajunFirefly
August 23, 2002 11:44 PM

The file shall remain until Gabe gets tired of it, or needs the space.

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El_Bofus
August 23, 2002 11:56 PM

i shall use two words - "fucking great"
i think i'll walk up to people i don't like and scream
"Tobor will cornhole you!" for a while now.
yes, i think i will.

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Spankling
August 24, 2002 9:44 AM

I downloaded the .mov ages ago and finally got around to updating my quicktime so I could see it.

AND I LOVED IT! If you wanted to drag it out you could have added barbs jumping out to the sides of the telescoping penis shadow at the end. But that's just personal taste.

You have a bright future in Robo-porn.

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KajunFirefly
August 24, 2002 11:56 AM

My original proposal and storyboards had a few extra scenes that due to time restraints had to be cut.

There was a scene that was supposed to be from Tobor's point of view, looking out of the alleyway at Clango with some kind of on-screen interface, targetting Clango and marking him as "Cornholing Possibility: 100%". The scene WAS rendered, but trying to animate the overlay was fucking impossible to do within a couple of days.

Also, at the end, the camera is supposed to pull away from the alleyway and sparks and flashes of light fly out into the street. A robot from one of my mate's cartoons was going to roll past, look in, then run away screaming, then the credits would roll. Again, I ran out of time.

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Spankling
August 24, 2002 12:01 PM

Great stuff! I look forward to the director's cut.

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KajunFirefly
August 24, 2002 12:16 PM

I'm going to re-do the scene with Clango's eyes, it's my favourite scene, the background needs edited though.

There probably WILL be a director's cut, but I don't really have the pressure of a deadline to get my ass round to doing it.

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punkrockskaboy
August 25, 2002 12:48 AM

That was fantastic! Great work, and I hope you end up finishing those extra scenes you were talking about so we can see them in conjunction with the already brilliant movie.

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Kevin_Keegans_Perm
August 25, 2002 6:56 AM

"Tobor Will Cornhole Tommy G"

Classic.

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DMSO
August 30, 2002 10:01 PM

Fuck me, that took long enough to download.

Well worth the wait though, so I will excuse you for that.

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KajunFirefly
September 5, 2002 6:36 AM

quote:
unless there's a way to get it on flash?

I can now bring you Tobor - The Movie, in flash, without the need for Quicktime and with hardly any drop in quality. Well, not RIGHT now, but it shall be available.

soon.

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