NYU Talk - 1 Mar 2005

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On March 1, 2005, The Brothers Chaps appeared at a talk at New York University. A brief summary of what they did follows:

• First Matt and Mike sat downstairs in the lobby of NYU's Kimmel Student Center signing autographs and talking to fans. At least on two separate occasions, Matt was willing to talk on people's cellphones as Strong Bad and/or Homestar.
• Matt and Mike aren't much for introductions; they opted to start by showing off an early cut of a humorous sequel to "Sample of Style" (on the DVD) where TBC told how they made the characters move (a "how do you animate the characters" answer). They parodied the "motion capture" greenscreen and ping-pong-ball setup, much like that used for Gollum in Lord of the Rings. This was an early cut; they're bound to release this someday in a more concise format.
• They also showed the Peasants Quest video, followed by a special feature where they simply played video of Matt fixing the hair of his fake wig. Later, they showed some footage that took shots from the video and removes each special effect one at a time.
• They showed an old planned feature that never happened where Bubs shows a bunch of Bazooka Joe comics, mostly making fun of the fact that they rarely had punchlines.
• They showed Coach Z's "These peoples try to fade me" video, a hidden track on the CD.
• The results of their "lets animate a cartoon on the plane!" competition. Mike made one with a fridge on a beach with some really well-animated grass here and there. There were some notes on it written from a father to his kids. The other cartoon made by Matt took some of the flight safety card drawing and animated them, including one where an airbag and a passenger have a conversation, and another where a passenger about to exit out the emergency door look out the window to see fish swimming by.
• They explained the origins of the Homestar Puppet and the Bubs With Growling Teeth and a Horn doll; both were samples sent by a Japanese company (pretty sure it's the one that makes Cheat dolls).
• A funny puppet short with Homestar travelling around the NYU Area. Whether a condensed version of this will appear on the site has yet to be seen.
• They showed off a preview for a new game, Stinkoman 20X6. It appears to be based off the original NES Megaman games as the sprites in the game and style are very similar.