Monkey Animation Project: Now online!
Here is the finished video!
Unfortunately, youtube recompresses everything, and I think the unusual animation style used here does not play well with their compression techniques. I’m still pretty happy with it, but I’m thinking about posting a better version somewhere else. One solution may be to seed it on bittorrent, but I don’t know if my frail comcast upload pipe would fair too well. Any ideas, lazy web? EDIT: Actually, it looks good when it doesn’t drop frames. Unfortunately it sometimes drops a lot of frames. Letting the video load 100% seems to help a little bit. It also happens more on some computers than others.
I’m still working on writing up more about the development process, including posting some videos of variations of this animation technique. Stay tuned!
this is very good
good the idea, good the result
I wonder how this would fare on Vimeo? Their “HD” settings are pretty amazingly high quality.
Another option for bittorrent that would preserve your Comcast connection is Amazon S3. It costs a bit of money when people seed directly from Amazon, but the idea of bittorrent is to spread the bandwidth out over all of the downloaders.
You can find more info about bittorrent-on-S3 here: http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonS3/latest/index.html?S3Torrent.html
Bonnie’s brother recommended Vimeo, too. I did upload it there yesterday: http://vimeo.com/7749694 . The quality doesn’t seem appreciably different, though.
bittorrent via s3 is an interesting idea. Maybe I’ll take a look at that.
The thing that bothers me the most is actually that my computer drops a lot of frames when watching the youtube version. It seems to be a performance bottleneck somewhere; it seems slightly better if I let it preload 100%. I should test it on more computers; if it’s not usually too bad then I probably will let it be good enough
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