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How to Play Chess in 80 secs by ~agnosticanarch:iconagnosticanarch:


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I'm taking Basic Animation this semester, and this is the first _real_ assignment from my class. The assignment: Create a tutorial on playing chess that is between 800 and 1,000 frames long and 12 frames per second. (That translates to about 83 seconds!) Except for one or two other students, everyone else in the class pretty much did some lame little thing that just showed the pieces and how they move. I wanted to do a real (if somewhat basic) tutorial. When this was completed, we had yet to go over buttons or actions or anything, so this is all one scene.

I used the text from Wikipedia on chess, and I abridged it even more. Then I recorded myself reading the text as quickly as I could. I used Audacity to remove the pauses in my recorded speech and speed up the sound file without changing the pitch. Basically, I now sound like the guy on the old Micromachines commercials! I drew the pieces, the board and everything else in Illustrator, and I used Flash MX to animate it. Keep in mind that this is my first _real_ animation. I did do one other one before this, but it was a dinky little online greeting card. I'm not very proud of it, but I liked the idea... so I may recreate it as I get more knowledge.

Also of note, I hit a bit of animator's block when I got to the bit about check and checkmate, so I just animated a chess game to show how check and checkmate worked. It wasn't my original intention, but it still works. If it's going too fast for you (and it most likely is) you can stop it and step through it to read the (super-instead-of-sub)titles.

I can't wait to really start making some cool cartoons. Watch here... I'll be posting more and better soon, I promise!

~AA
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lol, that's funny... but dude, seriosly, stay away from the anphetamins. lol =p

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"some people tell me that i need help,
some people can fuck off and go to hell"
- Cypress Hill - :finger: -
I just did the assignment as instructed! It's not my fault... but I am thinking about doing a series of "How to play ... in 80 seconds" for other the rest of chess and other board games, just for practice. Who knows... might get as big as the bunnies doing movies in 60 seconds! If she can get her stuff on Starz, maybe I can get my stuff on the GameShow Network! *silly grin*

Thanks for lookin'!

~AA

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"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours."
Stephen F Roberts.
ahaha np fella. made me laught all the way through it :P

no offence like.... lol

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"some people tell me that i need help,
some people can fuck off and go to hell"
- Cypress Hill - :finger: -
If'n you laughed, then I have done my job as an animator! If I can get at least one good laugh out of every 'toon I make, I'll be happy!!

~AA

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"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours."
Stephen F Roberts.
ehehehe in that case, Good job! :D lol

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"some people tell me that i need help,
some people can fuck off and go to hell"
- Cypress Hill - :finger: -
hahahhahaha...... Just to let you know i showed this to a few buddies of mine =]

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kittie kittie kittie
Wow, thanks! Did you learn anything, or did you laugh too hard...?

~AA

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"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours."
Stephen F Roberts.
I was tooo confused hahahaha But like.. I sorta did ... I don't think I could play after watching though xDD *tries not to watch it again*

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kittie kittie kittie
yours turned out A LOT better than mine did

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