Digital Chum - Virtual fish guts and other nonsense

Megan

Culinary Conscience

I just finished the latest video that Megan and I shot back in October. I had some issues with the effects back then and gave up for awhile, which is why it took so long.

Hooray for bacon!

The effects and 98% of the editing were done using FXHome’s HitFilm. I used Adobe Premiere Elements for the titles and some of the sound.

Yeah. She’s my daughter.

Megan was eating a warm, chocolate-chip cookie/brownie thing and had gotten to the center where it was all melty and chocolately.

I said, "Is that my part?"

She says, looking around in the bowl, "No. Your part is… Oh, sorry. I already ate your part."

I’m so proud.

The Button

Megan and my latest video project. We fight over control of a button with surprising results.

(h/t to Thundy for the rotoscoping tips)

Magic on Megan’s birthday

Friday evening, Megan had a sleepover birthday party with 3 friends and I performed a short magic show for them. I set up a video camera to capture it, but some of the show is lost because of the position. However, it went fairly well, I didn’t bork anything up, and the girls seemed to think it was a lot of fun.

Here are the videos (two parts due to Youtube restrictions on time).

Part One:

Part Two:

I made my d20 saving throw

Saving throw vs... Megan is reading the first book in the Warrior Series, a fantasy series about clans of cat warriors, and I asked her if, when she finished the first book, she was going to start the second one right away or if she was going to read one of the new Bella Sara horse books she just got.

She said, “I already started one of the Bella Sara books. I’m dual-wielding books.”

[...]

I’m so proud.

Magic Pillow Ride

Here’s the video that started it all. My daughter, who was about eight at the time, and I decided to play around with some stop-action animation. She provided the audio track.