Chalkboard fighters return with stop-motion video

by John Bardinelli { May 3rd 2007 at 10:03AM }

A couple of years ago, a group of students released a set of images depicting a Street Fighter/Mortal Kombat-esque fight sequence in front of a chalkboard. Now the team has released a stop-motion video utilizing over 3,000 photos and several hours of post-production effects. No chalk this time around, but the video game-meets-Dragonball Z-meets-real life theme is all there. Check out the video after the break.

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Tags: fighting, mortalkombat, streetfighter, video

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Konny @ May 3rd 2007 10:08AM

Why do all YouTube videos have to be loaded with crap metal music that sounds like you're in a freakin metal shop with screeching pigs.

Fatass of Kickassness @ May 3rd 2007 10:12AM

@1

Thats what metal is.

hoop @ May 3rd 2007 10:17AM

Not to be too negative -- they obviously put in a lot of time and effort into making the technically impressive video -- but does anybody else think that the simple pictures were a whole lot cooler?

norp @ May 3rd 2007 10:19AM

I wouldn't really call Crystal Method metal. If you call them metal you would have to do the same for Prodigy.

I was also hoping it would be entirely drawn stop motion on the chalkboard, that was just postprocessing done in photoshop.

If you want some awesome stop motion stuff have a look at Don Hertzfeldt (not game related!)

lupos @ May 3rd 2007 10:23AM

This is kind of entertaining but i was really expecting them to have actually drawn on the chalk board and not just added stuff in afterwards. None of the white lines are actually chalk :/

Tckob @ May 3rd 2007 10:24AM

....tripod...bitches

Jonathan Tran @ May 3rd 2007 10:29AM

My friend did a similar thing except with live action (why do stop motion?) Watch this and tell me it doesn't rock (the beginning is more a play on that crappy romeo movie, the end is more DBZ/MKII ish)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ml1DkuR46pQ

Aberu @ May 3rd 2007 10:34AM

They aren't drawing on the chalkboard for each frame though, it's a slightly deceiving video. More like they are using it like a green screen so they can overlay their mspaint effects over and behind the characters with it looking okay.

zwarrior @ May 3rd 2007 10:40AM

What's reggie Fils-aime doing there?

The video would have been cooler if they had put the effort of drawing on the chalkboard

Poisoned Al @ May 3rd 2007 10:41AM

As an animator, I wasn't impressed.

jay @ May 3rd 2007 10:41AM

My god that was terrible. The first was much better.

Jonathan Tran - that doesn't "rock".

Jerk Face @ May 3rd 2007 10:46AM

That was freaking great!

Booxatron @ May 3rd 2007 10:50AM

Those guys better be careful...if JT gets a hold of this they'll start banning chalk in America's schools...

Booxatron @ May 3rd 2007 10:52AM

Those guys better be careful...if JT gets a hold of this they'll start banning chalk in America's schools...

Booxatron @ May 3rd 2007 10:55AM

Goddamnit, I thought it swallowed my first comment. Oh well:

Double your pleasure, double your fun,
With Doublemint, Doublemint, chewing gum!

smg @ May 3rd 2007 11:12AM

The Crystal Method isn't metal FYI. Look to myspace if you want to see what real bad metal sounds like.

Felnor @ May 3rd 2007 11:19AM

Wow,
That could have been done so much better.
If anyone is looking to do the same, please please use a Tripod. Non-Tripod videos give me a headache just like this one did.
L2Tripod!!!
Felnor

Otis Whitaker @ May 3rd 2007 11:22AM

That music is NOT metal.
Don't insult metal.

Grey Acumen @ May 3rd 2007 11:26AM

I have to admit, I don't really see why they bothered making it stop motion when they only went and drew on the images instead of on the chalkboard. I would have been far more impressed if they had actually used the chalk, even if smudges were left from erasing each time.

Kye @ May 3rd 2007 12:28PM

Booxatron #13... and errr #4.

Your comment is todays best (so far)

Zack Turner @ May 3rd 2007 12:32PM

=\ This is pretty terrible, they don't even use chalk it's all after effects. It's pretty lame.

waLLy @ May 3rd 2007 12:43PM

stupid. what made the concept so clever in the first place was that they used **only** chalk. the effects ruin it.

The Gagaman @ May 3rd 2007 1:07PM

Well that was disappointing. Thy didn't even draw the animated stuff on the actual chalk board, instead opting out with flash animation placed over the top of the footage. Takes away the whole point of them moving in stop motion.

Shea @ May 3rd 2007 3:58PM

Anyone hating on these dudes is a shit head. "As an animator I wasn't impressed." Fuck you buddy. as an internet user, I think your handle Poisoned Al is a piece of shit.

Aaron @ May 3rd 2007 5:14PM

yeah...that was really dumb, should have just stuck to the chalk, or not done stop-motion.

Sadistic Freek @ May 3rd 2007 5:34PM

@1
Haha, you must be daft... or musically inept. Crystal Method metal? No. Not even Filter is considered metal (the singer in that version of Trip Like I Do is from Filter). Go back to watching your MTV and shut up 'till you know what music is... or at least what metal is.