The Birth of Christ is FINISHED!

spoooze! · Post by **spoooze!** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 11:25 pm

Hello!
Just wanted to tell everyone that my "short" film 'The Birth of Christ' is complete!
http://www.freewebs.com/jtn1989/boc.htm

I hope you all will find this movie enjoyable, I enjoyed working on it and am mostly satisfied with the result. There are a few things animation-wise I am not happy with but overall I am pleased with how the voice acting and most of the animation turned out.

Enjoy and thank you to everyone who supported the film! I'm showing it at my church on Sunday so I'll tell everyone how it goes!

James

P.S.
I am now starting on 'Lucky Bob's Time Machine 2'

J. Baker · Post by **J. Baker** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 3:20 am

Nice work James!

Do you plan to continue it?

spoooze! · Post by **spoooze!** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 1:40 pm

J. Baker wrote:Nice work James!

Do you plan to continue it?

Thanks!
I do plan to continue it but not right away. I'm gonna finish up a few more projects first.
James

spoooze! · Post by **spoooze!** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 12:57 am

Updates:

I made some minor but noticable changes to the vid. Nothing major but they are noticable if you've seen the first version.

http://www.freewebs.com/jtn1989/boc.htm

James

Patmals · Post by **Patmals** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 2:36 am

I liked it alot!! very well told!

The voices are good too!

I havent watched your other work yet Spoozel, but i will get around to it!

Good luck!

spoooze! · Post by **spoooze!** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 3:50 am

Thanks Patmals!
James

DarthFurby · Post by **DarthFurby** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 9:07 am

The voice work is professional. Especially the narrator, but everyone was great. Are you guys open to acting in other people's stuff? Also great job on pacing, even tho the story is familiar it kept my interest all the way thru. Never got a chance to see the original version, what exactly did you change?

Mostly everything has a professional feel about it(directing/acting), the only thing I would suggest is beef up the art/animation and you could be getting a show for broadcast somewhere.

Patmals · Post by **Patmals** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 9:15 am

I agree with Darthfurby too..the timing is very good. it is not sped through like a lot of stuff. storytelling and 'breathing' in the setting and mood is equally important..even more so than animating perfectly - in my opinion

spoooze! · Post by **spoooze!** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 3:45 pm

DarthFurby wrote:The voice work is professional. Especially the narrator, but everyone was great. Are you guys open to acting in other people's stuff? Also great job on pacing, even tho the story is familiar it kept my interest all the way thru. Never got a chance to see the original version, what exactly did you change?

Mostly everything has a professional feel about it(directing/acting), the only thing I would suggest is beef up the art/animation and you could be getting a show for broadcast somewhere.

Thanks

I got all my voice actors from this forum:
http://voiceactingalliance.com/board/index.php?

I can give you the websites of the actors, I'm sure they will be happy to act in your stuff:

http://dreamgate.studentenweb.org/
(narrator, his name is Domien de Groot)

http://lila-atherley.com/
(Voice of Mary)

I'll find more later. I gotta go to work.

Thanks for the comments!

James

HOYBOYS · Post by **HOYBOYS** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 4:26 pm

NICE WORK SPOOOZE...liked the titling, music, voice overs and great use of bones....and that little candle beside Mary!....amazing work considering it's almost 12 minutes long...now that's a lot of animation!....keep em coming and AMEN from the HOYBOYS!

(We'll be keeping watch for the new adventrures of LUCKY BOB!!!)

spoooze! · Post by **spoooze!** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 6:02 pm

HOYBOYS wrote:NICE WORK SPOOOZE...liked the titling, music, voice overs and great use of bones....and that little candle beside Mary!....amazing work considering it's almost 12 minutes long...now that's a lot of animation!....keep em coming and AMEN from the HOYBOYS! (We'll be keeping watch for the new adventrures of LUCKY BOB!!!)

Thanks Hoyboys!
I'm actually working on creating a musical Hiya Animation Christmas special starring Lucky Bob and friends.

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Okay, voice actors:

http://dreamgate.studentenweb.org/
(Narrator, his name is Domien de Groot, there is a "Contact Us" page that will give you his email)

http://lila-atherley.com/
(Lila Atherly, voice of Mary)

http://www.sgacreative.com/
(Steve Anderson, voice of Gabriel and misc. voices)

Never got a chance to see the original version, what exactly did you change?

I changed the verse at the beginning ("for unto us a Child is born") and I cut out a big portion of the scene where Herod orders the male children to be killed.

James