Is this the Tucker Carlson answer to Huffington Post?

Also - make with the isshefilthy posts - you know they're out there.

my less than dedicated search on the obs didn't turn anything up but I've probably missed it, if not....


Production is pretty brilliant for $300 if it's true. The backing track has me rooting for the robots.

more: http://buzz.yahoo.com/buzzlog/93260/fro ... -the-video

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No fucking way was that made for $300. Even with slaves and stolen equipment.

weird. i thought all the fags lived in Wilton Manors/Ft. Lauderdale.

http://www.funnyordie.co.uk/videos/65ae ... m-conanfan

couldn't get this to embed, but it's just some funny Conan clips.

That's what I was thinking. Unless this guy works at a high-end production company and has access to tons of great software, there is no way this gets done for that.

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow had a similar story, and i think it, or its prototype, was done for a similarly tiny budget

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o man the aroldis chapman one is good too.

Looks like an ostrich.

lynchian

You can't actually do anything for $300. I mean, you can, but not 4 minutes worth. Just editing the damn thing is worth more than that.

I mean some producer might have paid $300 for it, but that doesn't mean that's what it really cost to make.

it was produced, directed, written and edited by the same guy and had 4 people in the cast who were probably friends. i think it's probably more likely than you do

"...Alvarez, who runs a successful post-production visual effects house in Uruguay..."

I didnt expect it to be edited on some school-program laptop in some Uruguayan village but I still think it is impressive. Obviously it doesn't factor in labor or access to technology, but nonetheless, impressive.

This is a better take on the story that I've come across- including the angle that its all an elaborate hype creating stunt.

That is a better angle, and obviously better written than Yahoo! newspage. The fact is, yes it is a homemade film...but it was done by a guy who had access to some amazing equipment. No qualms about that. In fact, thats pretty awesome and I hope this pans out for him.

yeah i could make an album for less than 300 bones and post it on the internet, but that's just because i have all the album-makin stuff

but if i made the album for someone else, it'd cost more like 300 bajillion dollars

Right, and this makes more sense.

I just get a little uncomfortable when things like this start going around, and people start saying it "cost" $300 to make. We are frequently faced with clients who want the world for nothing, and the real cost of making something like this would be at least 100x that if not more. And I'm looking at: 3D models (some of which could just be purchased or possibly found, but still have to be cleaned up, set-up for animation, etc.), animation (characters & possibly CG cameras), lighting & rendering, shooting (crew, equipment, etc.), compositing and post-effects (not counting the initial creation of the 3D stuff, I'm talking marrying the effects to the footage - with dust, color correction, etc. - and just adding other effects and filters to create that aesthetic), and editing. Now if this guy did most of this work himself - or had people working for him at his studio do it and didn't count that cost - I guess I could see how he only had to actually pay $300 out of pocket for this. But that number is totally meaningless, really. I mean, he used resources already at his disposal, but it says nothing about the value of those resources or what it would take your average independent/student/whatever filmmaker dude to actually get access to any of that.

And even for $30,000, you couldn't really make something like that in the US. Maybe in Uruguay or Argentina or India or someplace like that.

^ lol, wtf

Great way to put it. Just because its available to Hollywood, doesn't mean its available to you for $500.

Made some coffee for the boss, she poured a cup & asked if we had any creamer. It just so happened we had a cup of fresh cream from Starbucks in the fridge. I got it out & handed it to her. She looked at it for a second, then complained, "I don't want that, I want powdered creamer!"