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Title: Finally. This song is the king of songs
Post by: markofkane on November 09, 2007, 09:14:13 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBCz5XXSILQ

I waited, and waited. I wanted to wait until I could do the song at least some justice. I don't think I could ever do this song the justice it deserves, but I figured I better do it while I can.

This is, in my opinion, the best rock song of the 50's. And beyond. Chuck influenced a lot of guitarists and bands, from the Beatles, to the Rolling Stones, to Jimi Hendrix, and so, so many more.

Not sure if there will be a part 4 of the Laura Story, it is possible.

Title: Finally. This song is the king of songs
Post by: caangel43 on November 09, 2007, 09:36:43 pm

very cool good work

Title: Finally. This song is the king of songs
Post by: tedathome on November 09, 2007, 10:33:25 pm

Exellant video. I liked the new scenery and the lyp-sync is your best so far. Jonney B. Goode has always been a favorite of mine.

Title: Finally. This song is the king of songs
Post by: jackgephart on November 10, 2007, 04:18:48 am

Mark! I loved it! Especially the flying V guitar! You knew I was gonna say that though. Great Job. I had a Flying V for a while but I like to sit down almost always to play and it was just too odd of a shape. So I traded it.

(http://www.geocities.com/karacterking/MyFlyingV.jpg)

Title: Finally. This song is the king of songs
Post by: markofkane on November 10, 2007, 05:36:21 am

Cool!![8D][8D][8D][8D][8D][8D]

Title: Finally. This song is the king of songs
Post by: NIGE on November 10, 2007, 07:12:44 am

That was great Mark.
Everything was very well done.

Title: Finally. This song is the king of songs
Post by: markofkane on November 10, 2007, 08:41:03 am

Thanks, Neil!!

And thanks to all that commented/contributed.[:D]

Title: Finally. This song is the king of songs
Post by: lightspeed on November 10, 2007, 08:59:10 am

chuck berry songs are great we used to listen to his and others as we drove our customized 62 corvair to many car shows and cruise ins !![:)]

Title: Finally. This song is the king of songs
Post by: GT40 on November 10, 2007, 11:15:14 am

Wow! Great great great (sorry for my poor vocabulary, but it's great).

Dance, music, all is terrific (a lot of haps?). Big fan of Chuck Berry too. Yes, great! [8D][8D][8D]

Jack, you're playing "Johnny Be Goode" on the photo? [:D]

Title: Finally. This song is the king of songs
Post by: jackgephart on November 10, 2007, 12:22:52 pm

Lightspeed your girl with the lips is in diddy, Marks last video. Did you see her? He labeled it part 3. Go watch it.

GT, no I was not playing at all, I was posing.

Keep up the good work Mark. I would like the hap file to the guitar move and to know how you inserted a guitar into the mix. I would love for her to play a Gibson Les Paul. I had one of those too.

Title: Finally. This song is the king of songs
Post by: aladyblond on November 10, 2007, 01:03:55 pm

another good one got my feel moving mark... lol

Title: Finally. This song is the king of songs
Post by: Duskrider on November 10, 2007, 04:00:38 pm

I think very cool how you got Laura playing the V guitar
Good thinking.

                 ---Dusky

Title: Finally. This song is the king of songs
Post by: markofkane on November 10, 2007, 05:24:15 pm

Thanks, all.

Jack, I use layers in Paint Shop Pro (since I know it well) and you may be able to do this with another graphic program.

First, I did a screen shot with Laura posing in that "play guitar" pose.

Then I opened it with PSP.

I found a picture of the guitar, rotated and resized it as needed, and positioned it.(after removing the edges from the original photo_

Then I used a selection tool, and copied her playing arm, then pasted the copy on top the guitar as another layer. (cleaning up the edges)

Also, I used my eraser brush on her left hand, to make it look like her hand was around the neck of the guitar.

I took the copy of her arm, and positioned it so that it was lined up with the rest of her arm.(and on top the guitar).

Then I made a copy of the background.

Then a copy of the cropped and cleaned up arm. I rotated her arm, I'd say 5 degrees?? then lined it up with the duplicated background.

That gives it the look she is moving her arm up and down.

So, I take the layers as follows, (top to bottom)

1. Rotated Arm
2.Guitar
3 Background (girl)

And merge them together

Then the next 3 layers

1. Arm
2. Guitar
3. Background  (girl)

And merge them.

I save as a PSP animation shop file and open with animation shop.

(if you can save them in another format that keeps the 2 layers separated for use in another program, that's fine)

After opening the file in animation shop, I save as a gif.


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And, here is the files you need for her "Air Guitar" moves (they need to be slightly adjusted for the male HTR, and I haven't done that yet)

(unzip, copy files to your "program files Haptek Haptek player data standard skins" folder.)

Copy the other 3 files where you want to open it. Drop  "guitar" on your girl or guy.

(Thanks to Dusky for the example scripts to animate haps)





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Title: Finally. This song is the king of songs
Post by: jackgephart on November 10, 2007, 09:34:55 pm

Thanks this is great stuff man.[:D]