Junk

The narrator and the cinematographer share the stage in this animation in a way that I really like. The tone is also similar to what I would like to achieve.
I think it is dactylic tetrameter.
Dactil (Stressed + Unstressed + Unstressed) Tetrameter (four groups)
But it ends in an iamb (a short syllable followed by a long syllable)

It might be anapestic tetrameter.

Prompting a Dialogue in 3D!!!

The most believable responses are reactions from real people to unscripted scenarios, not actors. That is why I am trying to get authentic reactions from people, and edit the goose into the footage. As an extension, I have been working on a teleprompter for unwitting actors.

Goose Vision

I want the audience/viewers reaction to be surprised and exclamatory; something like "Is that a goose with a tuba?!", and not "what is this for" or "How did you make it 3D?". So I am trying to absorb the character in the viewers space, rather than trying to adapt the viewer to the characters world.
The display is 3D (without glasses) with parallax, and the background is from a camera behind the monitor.

The interlacing takes up a huge amount of the processing power, so the live version will have only a few responses, triggered manually (AI reactive responses are slower, and they are unreliable as the input cycles overlap the processing).

The Kinect 3D Sensor

The Kinect generates a lot of information about the environment, it might also be useful in defining the camera's position in the virtual space and grabbing a quick 3D model. 

The two limiting factors for outdoor are sunlight, which has a lot of infrared (the Kinect tracks depth with an array of IR laser beams), and the Kinect is only designed to range objects within 10 to 20 feet of the sensor. I am looking into lenses and filters for both issues.

The Microsoft SDK (seen above on a running on a laptop) is very stable, but it does not communicate with Isadora, so I could not use it to do head tracking in the field, but it might be useful for making a live 3D map of the camera position.

Digital "Pop Out" Book

I've been scooped!

Mine is going to be better.

I like the tilt action for the fruit.

This one is terrible. Not like a book at all; this is  a Flash game with some words in it. It is like they wanted to increase your kid's ADHD.  But I like the candle illuminating text on the floor.

Changing the CVS to a Butcher Shop

It occurred to me that the shot where he gets kicked out of the store, would work much better it it were a butcher shop. So I am looking for images, and locations.

The red and white awning is iconic

I like the checkered floor and the font

I might be able to get away with adding a sign, and changing the stuff in the window (the interior is was all done in Maya anyway, so it wouldn't be that hard).

I like the idea of meat hanging in the window that is not visible from Tuba-Goose's approach, but visible to the audience

Signs

Maybe a close up of the door as it closes behind him with the words "Deli and Butcher Shop"

I might take a video inside a butcher shop for reference or to use as a texture

Non-Anthropomorphic Geese Displaying Emotion

Sad Geese

Tense Geese

Scared Geese

 Content Geese

Anti-Fairy Tales

"The anti-fairy tale has long existed as a shadow of the traditional fairy tale genre. First categorized as the ‘antimärchen’ in Andre Jolles’ seminal Einfache Formen (c.1930), the anti-tale was found to be contemporaneous with even the oldest known examples of fairy tale collections. Rarely an outward opposition to the traditional form itself, the anti-tale takes aspects of the fairy tale genre and re-imagines, subverts, inverts, deconstructs or satirizes elements of them to present an alternate narrative interpretation, outcome or morality. Red Riding Hood may elope with the wolf. Or Bluebeard’s wife is not interested in his secret chamber. Snow White’s stepmother gives her own account of events and Cinderella does not exactly find the prince charming."

http://www.sussexfolktalecentre.org/2010/06/30/anti-tales-the-uses-of-disenchantment-symposium/
22 essays on the use of  disenchantment
http://www.academia.edu/2574146/Anti_Tales_The_Uses_of_Disenchantment


System of classification for fairy-tales

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aarne%E2%80%93Thompson_classification_systems

Non-anthropomorphic emotion

I am working on making shots of the goose displaying emotion, without anthropomorphism...