08-01-2007, 02:36 PM
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| En Garde - short animation
Schermaonline.com is pointing out a very interesting and quite remarkable short film/animation about fencing. http://www.schermaonline.com/scherma...ticle&sid=1303
The film/animation made by Olivier Colchen and Thomas Van Maele dates back to 2005 and was presented to the BitFilm Festival in Hamburg last year.
Here is the direct link to youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThyXChQ-36I
Great soundtrack! Enjoy it!  | 
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08-01-2007, 03:49 PM
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#2 | | Feline Groovy
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| Nifty!! Just to waste a few more seconds of yoru lives, I'll add that this one on the 'related' list caught my eye. What can I say, it made me laugh.  | |
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08-01-2007, 07:49 PM
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| Wow thats actually really cool. Nice find.
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08-01-2007, 07:57 PM
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08-02-2007, 12:16 AM
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Originally Posted by VorpalCat  Nifty!! Just to waste a few more seconds of yoru lives, I'll add that this one on the 'related' list caught my eye. What can I say, it made me laugh. | Hm...I wonder when that was made. I was surprised to see the box registering touches against instead of touches for. | |
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08-02-2007, 10:02 AM
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#6 | | Feline Groovy
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Originally Posted by tbryan Hm...I wonder when that was made. I was surprised to see the box registering touches against instead of touches for. | I'm betting that has no bearing on it -- for the visual joke of the ad, doing it the right way just wouldn't make any sense to a non-fencer. | |
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08-02-2007, 08:43 PM
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| Okay. That was amazingly crafted.
But, everyone sing with me now:
"Spider fencer, spider fencer, does whatever a spiderfencer does. Can he swing from a thread? No he can't, he's a fencer. LOOOK OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUT! Here comes a spiderfencer!"
All I could think. Damn you, Homer!
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08-03-2007, 02:16 AM
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08-03-2007, 02:34 AM
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| French grips booooooooo. 
The animation is really spectacular, though. And it's fairly close to modern fencing. I enjoyed it. | 
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08-03-2007, 08:15 AM
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Originally Posted by VorpalCat for the visual joke of the ad, doing it the right way just wouldn't make any sense to a non-fencer. | What? I thought that we switched the lights because the non-fencer wouldn't understand it the old way. You mean that I went through the whole "sorry, I mean touch for the other fencer" stage of refereeing for nothing? | |
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08-03-2007, 10:34 AM
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#11 | | Feline Groovy
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Originally Posted by tbryan What? I thought that we switched the lights because the non-fencer wouldn't understand it the old way. You mean that I went through the whole "sorry, I mean touch for the other fencer" stage of refereeing for nothing? | Now see, you're getting your non-fencers confused. There's the non-fencer watching the actual bout and there's the non-fencer watching commercials. Wait 'til they come out with the light changes for the non-fencer watching fencers watching commercials made by non-fencers for fencers to use to explain fencing to non-fencers who have fencers demonstrating non-fencing moves to non-fencers so they can ask questions of fencers.  | |
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08-04-2007, 10:16 AM
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| Great video, very well done, and shows nice fencing spirit. | |
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