Yeah, I did the other Colin site for this dance (as well as several other Colin sites), but that one had Wayne cropped out so as to focus on Colin. So there's still room for this site to do what it does. :)
"i smell an insider...two transactions of exactly $150? how you got that so accurate is beyond me." What? It's not really hard to figure out how to make exact donations if you study the patterns a bit.
Quick question: were you trying to make Rigel and Aldebaran resemble the Wikipedia GIF of the Beta Lyrae binary star system after Pac-Man hops on Aldebaran?
"Males have a Napoleon Dynamite
kind of thing, and females dance like fruity pop stars." Yeah, I know. This was created on 2005-11-05, over 10 months ago and before they changed it. And, for whatever reason, it caught on fast.
"The wheel looks like it's got an electric motor hooked up to it and
was already spinning before the hamster got on." The wheel looks that way because of how it's constructed. If it was already spinning, the hamster wouldn't have been able to step onto it the way it does.
Y'know, I recall sitting in Narita Airport last December logging in on a 100-yen-per-10-minute internet terminal and watching the initial Sailor Moon vs. Sakaki get more and more traffic...it HAS been a long while. :)
Doesn't seem to be #99 alltime in any list I notice on-site. And I sponsored it because, at that time, the sponsorship feature was new. Max wanted donations, I donated. That $33.68 was one of the highest amounts anybody had donated to a site until then, and yes, it paid off in views. Stayed on the front page for quite a while. :)
About 2 or 3 nights. Finished up at around 6AM yesterday. Although automatic green removal didn't work, the background did help with determining where the outline was. For spots where the green bled into his suit/shoes, I selected those areas and brought their color saturation levels down towards gray. Luckily, his suit is grayscale.
And as for Samuel L. Jackson, I figured his "...." expression would suffice for showing his opinion of Colbert's barrel-rolling performace. Might have thrown off the sync if he starts talking too soon or too late. Finally, about Colbert being tiny, the angle of the floor in the Jedi Council room is different from the floor on his green screen room. He either would have been too small in the distance or too large up close.
About the Photoshopping, I ran into a bit of a problem, there. Because I was working with the original low-res 256-color animated GIF, and not the full-resolution original sequence, simply filtering out the color green didn't work properly. It either didn't trim out enough, or started to erase pixels inside him, etc. The green even bled into his shoes, in most frames. So I ended up manually tracing his outline for every frame. Otherwise, I would have had this out sooner. :)
Because certain people (and mods) think flagging a site NSFW isn't just meant for sites that are truly NSFW, but also for high-traffic sites they happen to dislike.
