Leslie Stein took the time to answer our questions on her new comic book from Fantagraphics (Eye of the Majestic Creature), slice of life comics, musical influences, and anthropomorphic guitars.
the wing of the eagle disappeared in one frame in the beginning of the video. and if you look closely, you can see the eagle s shadow suddenly appear out of nowhere. we are getting all csi on this video at this point. people are really scrutinizing this video very closely. the video causes such a media frenzy that within 12 hours of its release, the school issues a statement declaring it a hoax. by the time that i issued my statement, a lot of media in australia and in the u.k. had already posted the news as real. and we thought it was really important for us to debunk it so quickly. even though it s fake, the public can t get enough. within days the student project reaches more than 40 million hits. it was really heartwarming for us to see that we got so viral, international for us and for the school. but it is not just media attention that the school receives. the money we did with our youtube channel is being used to create a color shape for future students in the sc
all looks seamless. in total the 30-second slice of life takes more than 300 hours to complete. on december 18th, 2012, the students upload the video to youtube and call it a night. oh [ bleep ]! the next morning when we woke up, the video got more than 1 million views. i was very surprised it went viral that fast. people are asking, is it real? is it fake? people saw this video and reacted with absolute shock. people wanted to share it and say, can you believe this is true? as a mother, i have enough to worry about. now i have to worry about eagles? really? this baby s cute. an eagle would want this baby. but not everyone believes. online sleuths dissect the video trying to prove it s fake. people analyze the video frame by frame, and they spot two errors. the wing of the eagle disappear in one frame on the beginning of the video.
and if you look closely, you can see the eagle s shadow suddenly appear out of nowhere. we are getting all csi on this video at this point. people are really scrutinizing this video very closely. the video causes such a media frenzy that within 12 hours of its release, the school issues a statement declaring it a hoax. by the time that i issued my statement, a lot of media in australia and in the u.k. had already posted the news as real. and we thought it was really important for us to debunk it so quickly. even though it s fake, the public can t get enough. within days the student project reaches more than 40 million hits. it was really heartwarming for us to see that we got so viral, we had some international visibility for us and for the school. but it is not just media attention that the school receives. the money we did with our youtube channel is being used to create a color shape for future students in the school. that s what i m the most
i was filming the sky, trying to imagine there was a bird there. the kid had hidden in the stroller next to the mother. when the camera pans down and i start running, the father comes back, picks up the baby in the stroller, brings him back where the eagle would have dropped it. orange balls are strategically placed on the ground to use as reference points during the 3-d animation process. these are our trackers, which you can see, you can use anything that contrast with the background, so that the software can allow the position of every tracker and replicate them in the camera. next comes the complex problem of creating the three dimensional elements. the first step is modeling the eagle and his prey. my part of the project was to create the model of the baby. here you can see i got my reference, i used it as a guide to a proportion of the baby. it didn t have to be exactly