Comments on: Text-to-Movie(tm)

Text-to-Movie(tm)

Balonious Assault — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 00:53:35 -0800

If you can type, you can make movies. A website that allows users to create animated movies using text-to-speech scripts and a surprisingly versatile selection of characters, voices, actions, camera shots, etc.

By: Balonious Assault

Balonious Assault — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 00:55:17 -0800

For example (I didn't make that one, but a friend of mine did). There goes the rest of my weekend.

By: zouhair

zouhair — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 01:34:33 -0800

O.K. who'll start to make Calvin & Hobbes remakes?

By: Christ, what an asshole

Christ, what an asshole — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 01:52:41 -0800

I'm going straight to hell.

By: Pinback

Pinback — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 02:28:38 -0800

I'm thinking more (Dysfunctional) Family Circus remakes, myself. What? A man can dream, can't he?

By: Picklegnome

Picklegnome — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 03:19:05 -0800

Mr. Babbit tells jokes better than I do.

By: zippy

zippy — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 03:41:03 -0800

Was this wrong?

By: greasepig

greasepig — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 03:48:43 -0800

This is awesome. The voice transcription for the Japanese voice is pretty good, too. No male voice, though, unfortunately.

By: gcbv

gcbv — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 04:37:11 -0800

My take on this deals with the depravity of self, and the resolution of fear through a state of figurative phenomenological release.

By: Ryvar

Ryvar — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 05:30:23 -0800

A reenactment of exlotuseater's deskic identity comment in the deskology thread.

By: Ryvar

Ryvar — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 05:55:23 -0800

Jesus. One-click publishing to Youtube when you've setup your account correctly - these guys are really going all-out with this. Awesome.

By: sveskemus

sveskemus — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 06:21:14 -0800

A reenactment of Ryvar's reenactment of exlotuseater's deskic identity comment in the deskology thread.

By: Corduroy

Corduroy — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 06:36:56 -0800

Oh man, this is cool. I look forward to seeing what other twisted videos Metafilter users come up with.

By: autodidact

autodidact — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 06:42:13 -0800

Put me down on the hater list. Can't wait for the marketing victims in my life to hear about this and think I'm out of business as a guy who occasionally does 3D animation/modelling for people.

By: littleredwagon

littleredwagon — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 06:54:08 -0800

CWAA for the win!

By: WolfDaddy

WolfDaddy — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 07:00:14 -0800

A dream I had about 10 years ago.

By: Sparx

Sparx — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 07:13:26 -0800

This is beyond awesome and very clever indeed. I have to eat food now elsewhere or I'd be pootling around for ages, but here's my first attempt.

By: odinsdream

odinsdream — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 07:22:53 -0800

This couldn't possibly be any better specifically for the MeFi audience.

By: odinsdream

odinsdream — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 07:25:12 -0800

WolfDaddy: Totally awesome.

By: Ryvar

Ryvar — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 07:32:10 -0800

Thought I'd try to see how far I could push this and attempted a reenactment of a Metafilter comment I made that I really cared about. Needless to say, despite 4-6 markups per sentence I still hit a pretty solid brick wall on the limits of this thing. The real bitch is the inability to interrupt in-progress animations.

By: grouse

grouse — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 07:33:52 -0800

That is pretty fucking awesome.

By: cavalier

cavalier — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 07:59:26 -0800

The background music really sells it. This is going to be fun!

By: Bonzai

Bonzai — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 08:23:53 -0800

A dream I had about 10 years ago When ever anyone says "I had an interesting dream" you can be assured of two things. They are going to tell you about it and it will not be interesting.

By: cortex

cortex — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 08:54:11 -0800

Oh man. I'm gonna kill some time with this today.

By: hellojed

hellojed — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 08:57:26 -0800

Thank you Pastabagel, your classic snark is now in text to speech hilarity

By: nosila

nosila — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 09:06:17 -0800

xtranormal.com appears to be totally borked.

By: nosila

nosila — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 10:53:52 -0800

Ha! The computer reads "babysitting" as "babbysitting" in the last line of hellojed's excellent adaptation.

By: nosila

nosila — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 11:01:49 -0800

It finally published my first effort: Wit and Wisdom with the big W, inspired by this post and, specifically, this comment.

By: hellojed

hellojed — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 11:40:58 -0800

I was more impressed that the text to speech algorithm handled the phrase "Christing fuck"

By: Leo Golan

Leo Golan — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 11:52:35 -0800

something isn't okay: Firefox can't find the server at www.xtranormal.com

By: amyms

amyms — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 13:32:27 -0800

It won't open for me. One of you broke it!

By: Alvy Ampersand

Alvy Ampersand — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 14:15:20 -0800

This couldn't possibly be any better specifically for the MeFi audience. Indeed; MeFite fights just got even funnier.

By: evilcolonel

evilcolonel — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 14:49:49 -0800

I saw a certain avatar, and it immediately inspired me to make this. (There really needs to be a way to audition a block of text before shooting the movie.)

By: Ryvar

Ryvar — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 15:02:16 -0800

Er, you can Just hit action to preview, it renders the movie out, then change the script instead of hitting it's a wrap.

By: Christ, what an asshole

Christ, what an asshole — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 16:45:25 -0800

It only gets worse. Part two.

By: flatluigi

flatluigi — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 20:33:18 -0800

This stuff is golden.

By: l33tpolicywonk

l33tpolicywonk — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 22:33:53 -0800

The website suggests that "publishing" movies for free will only be around a short time.

By: hellojed

hellojed — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 23:53:09 -0800

Presenting: The Hobo News network! Part 1, Part 2, Part 3. Damn, this must be what Trey Parker and Matt Stone feel like. Something stupid just pops into my head and 20 minutes later I have a link to share.

By: DU

DU — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 08:57:25 -0800

I keep thinking this can't be as awesome as it seems but it keeps being so. Thanks!

By: quin

quin — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:04:52 -0800

Indeed; MeFite fights just got even funnier. I was thinking the same thing. If we could somehow incorporate this into MetaTalk we would have the a powerful engine for entertainment. Also; evil.

By: Balonious Assault

Balonious Assault — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:56:43 -0800

Well, here's my best effort so far. It's sure to offend someone.

By: autodidact

autodidact — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:09:01 -0800

^ hated it.

By: cashman

cashman — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:36:10 -0800

The site owners made a video shouting out Mefi (and Reddit) and linking to a few places that have sprung up as xtranormal video blogs or with a lot of content using their video creation site. CWAA, I was nowhere near a computer, not even really thinking about that video and it popped into my head and I just got that stupid spit-on-yourself laugh. Is that from a show or did you just completely make that up? That is the funniest shit I have seen in a month of Sundays. I know I'm going to be laughing uncontrollably at that for the rest of the year.