Killer Klaus from TaylorMade Productions

[taylormade]

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l221/taylormadefilms/KillerKlausPoster.jpg


A red-suited fatman wreaks vengence.


An animated short in three weeks? Yeah, I'm crazy.

[Rodney V. Smith]

Yes!!

[gLaurie]

Good idea with Killer Klaus! :D
I thought of some romantic comedy about a girl who lost her faith in Christmas miracles.
She's miserable and depressed when she hears a knock on her door. Some guy appers to be a Ghost of Christmas Past, who shows her some of her early christmas memory.
End the story end's with the Ghost of Christmas Present becoming her boyfriend.
Ha-ha. Sounds too girlish?
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[taylormade]

Killer Klaus is definately not a romantic comedy! :) I set out to make the most non PC, socially unacceptable, over the top cartoon I could think of. Whether I can finish it in three weeks remains to be seen.

[Hawk Teflon]

I love that you can do animation. Very awesome!

[taylormade]

You may want to wait and look at the short before you decide if I really can do animation or not.

[Elton]

Good luck taylormade! May the force be witcha

[Ki-Ki]

You may want to wait and look at the short before you decide if I really can do animation or not.

Haha! Good luck Taylor, keeping a keen eye on this one.

[Charli]

Oooooo, animation, rock it!

[StillGuerrillaFilms]

With a Hobo sidekick? no? Wishful thinking? :) I'm sure the North Pole would have bums. "The ugly side of the pole!" Your films sounds like fun stuff!

[Bubblegummonster]

Your film does sound awesome.
I don't want to rain on your parade, but 3 weeks I'd be surprised if you get more then 20 seconds done. The only way I could physically see you doing this in 3 weeks is if you move all the characters like chess pieces.

[taylormade]

You're not raining on my parade.:) I currently have 1:02 finished and I'm rendering a seven second scene that is already animated. But, you may be right, I probably won't get this finished in time as I'm currently making a living editing during the day, so it's nights only on this project.

[Bubblegummonster]

Wow, really? That's some going, you must be exhausted?

I applaud you for your efforts I look forward to seeing your results.

Good Luck!

[taylormade]

Yeah, effort is one thing, results are another. I'll leave it to you guys to see if I'm really an animator or not. I tried to keep things as simple as possible while still not going for the "moving chess pieces" look.

[cherchieh]

can't wait to see the end result! All the best in animating...but with all the mighty effort you put in, it sounds like the first person that Killer Klaus kills, is you...take care!

[Matt Harris]

good luck Richard, you're the man!

[Zach Olson]

Can't wait to see how this one turns out. I love that you are doing an animation.

[taylormade]

I currently have about 2:30 done out of 4:00. Just found out I have to go to Newark and Atlanta all next week for an extended shoot for a client. As if things we'ren't tight enough as is! I'm going to try and make the deadline, but if not, I'll post it as a work in progress.

[Matt Harris]

clients are overrated, let them know that you have a fest to complete!

[taylormade]

Yeah, the problem is the aforementioned clients sign these little oblong pieces of paper called - what is it? - oh, yeah, CHECKS! Checks good, poverty bad.

[taylormade]

Currently have 4:26 of animation created, rendered and edited. Looks like total length will be about 5 minutes. Everything up to this point has finished sound and color correction. I originally thought this would be a little over three minutes - as usual, I got carried away! Hope tp finish up the final sequences this evening. Installing 24gigs of ram memory certainly speeded up my render times. Too many sight gags to post screen shots, it would give too much away.

[JaceBrownlow]

nice! any chance of some stills?

[taylormade]

I'll try and post a few when I get home tonight - if I can find something pretty generic. As I said, most shots would give away the sight gags that are vital to the story.

[ZazaCast]

I think you've won this one already! Merry Christmas.

[taylormade]

Okay, here's the best I can do, and I'm still giving too much away.

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l221/taylormadefilms/B_0036.png

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l221/taylormadefilms/house.jpg

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l221/taylormadefilms/Santa.jpg

[JaceBrownlow]

looks good! Bottom one almost looks steam punk :D

[taylormade]

My short is uploaded to Vimeo. For some reason the contrast has increased and the blacks are really crushed, but after all the problems I had getting the thing uploaded, I'm not going to risk going back in with a attempted fix. But I can assure everyone it did not look this way in my Avid, in Quicktime files or in the Blu-ray disk I made of the film. I also uploaded it to my YouTube private account and the contrast was fine. This is my first venture into Vimeoland and I'm less than happy with the results.

[Matt Harris]

this looks amazing richard!

[StillGuerrillaFilms]

My short is uploaded to Vimeo. For some reason the contrast has increased and the blacks are really crushed, but after all the problems I had getting the thing uploaded, I'm not going to risk going back in with a attempted fix. But I can assure everyone it did not look this way in my Avid, in Quicktime files or in the Blu-ray disk I made of the film. I also uploaded it to my YouTube private account and the contrast was fine. This is my first venture into Vimeoland and I'm less than happy with the results.

Uploading mine to Vimeo made it darker as well. It happens from time to time. I'm looking forward to watching your movie! Your Santa looks so cuddly. hahahahaha :)

[Mobie540]

Wow that was pretty epic! Awesome job!

[StillGuerrillaFilms]

Fantastic film! I just about died laughing. :) Great ending too! :)

[Tequilawoo]

Great work man! I know nothing about doing animation but that looked like a lot of work! Thanks for the good words on my film!

[JaceBrownlow]

lol, very fun! Animation was cool and you animated some great action. I dont want to imagine how painstaking it must have been to model, texture, animate and render it all, because I have had experience with CG and never has it been an enjoyable one :p So nods to you for choosing animation as your medium in this fest! :D

One critique, I felt the beginning with porn mag and the taking crap was kinda cheep shots for laughs. Dont get me wrong, a good poop humor is always fun, but like anything else, it is an art in itself to do right. Subtle way of approaching it seem to work the best I have found. But other then that nice work! Thank you for sharing! :)

[taylormade]

Well, Jace, as I said in the beginning, I set out to make the most offensive, non-PC cartoon I could. From your comments, I apparently succeeded! :) Thanks for watching - and being offended!

[Hawk Teflon]

Spoiler-y review. Read at your own risk:

Note: It's hard for me to critique animation because I can't do it. I don't know what works / doesn't work / etc. It would be like me critiquing a cd. I know what I like and don't like, but not much more than that.

What I liked: First off, congrats on pulling something like this off. I couldn't have done it if you had given me a year. Santa, the pig ... it all looked great. And that's FAR more important than the nitpicking I do below. I also liked how different this was than the story I thought it was going to be.

What I didn't like as much: Contrary to a different entry, I would have liked a little voice over on the beginning of this. Just at the part we're supposed to read in the book. I'm also not a fan of fart jokes. I think it's a con to make people laugh. I never find it funny (but I'm weird). HOWEVER, it did work here because it's what was actually moving your story along. But I did want to mention it. I think the thing that I liked least was that ... Santa died. Right after "No one ever dies in a cartoon," Santa died. But ... he ... just ... said ... Again, I'm nitpicking.

Great entry. Top of the food chain for me!

[JoeJITSU]

My short is uploaded to Vimeo. For some reason the contrast has increased and the blacks are really crushed, but after all the problems I had getting the thing uploaded, I'm not going to risk going back in with a attempted fix. But I can assure everyone it did not look this way in my Avid, in Quicktime files or in the Blu-ray disk I made of the film. I also uploaded it to my YouTube private account and the contrast was fine. This is my first venture into Vimeoland and I'm less than happy with the results.
Can you PM me the password, I would love to take a look at it as well. Thank you...HAPPY NEW YEARS!

[taylormade]

Can you PM me the password, I would love to take a look at it as well. Thank you...HAPPY NEW YEARS!

It's on the viewing page with the password provided.

[taylormade]

Thanks for the review, Hawk. I used the book because I ran out of voices -my own - doing Santa and the Pig. I also thought it felt more "cartoonish." Santa dying right after pontificationg that "No one ever dies in a cartoon," was a jab at irony. I guess it didn't work for you if it didn't seem - ironic. Happy you were put off by the fart routine. As I said at the beginning, if you weren't offended, I failed.

[Cryogenic Filmworks]

Kool. Very entertaining and well done. Not big on the fart stuff but since it was done, the gas fumes were a nice touch. Just a guess if you don't mind... Daz Studio or Poser.. maybe off chance of lightwave? Mimic to animate the speaking?

Thanks

[taylormade]

Poser Pro 2012. I animated everything - including the speaking. Glad you liked it. Very happy the fart jokes offended nearly everyone as that's what I set out to accomplish. :)

[Matt Harris]

Richard I just saw this now, loved it! You really have a unique and original animation style. I had a blast watching this, I actually watched it several times.
How many hours would you guesstimate this took you?

[taylormade]

Matt, I worked on it everyday for a month, about six hours a day. I did have to leave town on an extended shoot for almost a week and lost six days there, but my wife rendered sequences I'd already animated while I was gone, so it wasn't a total loss. I did all the work evenings and weekends as I have a regular job as a freelance director/editor/writer that pays the bills.

I'm currently smoothing out some of the animation and some of the camera moves that I didn't get quite right the first time around.

Thanks for the great music, by the way!

[Matt Harris]

Thanks for using the music, it fit perfect. I can't believe the man hours you put in. I really think you should make a tv show pilot or something and pitch it to the networks. something kid friendly.