Giant Bomb TV Intros: The Odd Couple ed. (Updated 12/17)

I can't stop watching these. Great job @somestickguy_! Ever thought about doing a tutorial series for creating stuff like this? I'm super interested in it.

These will always be the best.

If someone wants to help, I need some aid to find good quality clips and photos of staff members. My idea is to make True Detective -style intro, concept video below:

Clips in the video are wip and out of sequence, but you'll get the idea. I specially would like to find video clips that have high resolution, are steady, have closeups, have simple background, etc. I have searched the site (and Googled) but it really is proving hard to find anything on good Alex, Austin and surprisingly Jeff. So, help?!

That's not a bad idea! I might give it a while, though, when I'm past the stage where I'm basically duct taping things together and maybe a little closer to actually understanding what I'm doing.

@charlie_victor_bravo: Dude, that looks fantastic so far. What are you using?

Also, yeah, tell me about it. Have you tried the Game of the Year videos? Since it was shot to look like an actual thing you'd put on TV, there's a lot more usable stuff there. As for Austin.....

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Good luck!

@somestickguy_: I have looked few GOTY videos - most of the have problem of being too shaky. I need to slow the videos down and with low frame rate combined with shaking, does not work (fx stabilization is too slow option for me). But yes, potentially best stuff might be in the GOTY videos.

@charlie_victor_bravo: Sadly there isn't much high FPS Giantbomb footage out there. I'd suggest that you instead slow down some stock b-roll footage (high FPS) and then you can use stills (or if you manage to slow it down properly) for the GB footage. It'll still look fine since there's a lot of stills of humans in the True detective intro. Most of the stuff in the intro that moves are objects and the effects.

I have thought about doing a True detective intro for a long time, so I'm really interested in your progress! If you ever want to bounce ideas of off someone I'm happy to help!

@somestickguy_: I'm really impressed by MacRyckert -- the clip of him eating an ice cream cone was a nice detail. Great work.

Ahhhh all of these are so great!

Wow, that Arrested Development one was pitch perfect. I don't think you could edit that any better, unless you got Ron Howard to do some voice over work and, let's be real, that's not going to happen.

Stellar work.

these are all so stupid good, well done!

i think macryckert wins my heart, however.

@somestickguy_: I've been out of touch for a bit but saw you grabbed my idea and nailed it! Great work man! Keep it up!

@viper: Yes, images can work and might be better, specially with the use of displacement mapping. However it is the lack of or hurdle to find these images (or videos) that is the biggest problem and time sink...

@charlie_victor_bravo: Yeah it's a bitch. I know of a few free stock footage sites that I use. http://www.videvo.net/ and http://www.beachfrontbroll.com/. Have a look through them and see if you find anything worth while

Holy hell MacRyckert beautiful.

@viper: I think you misunderstood. I have tons of textures, semipro-grade camera with pro-grade optics, hi-quality 4K stock footage and so forth - Giant Bomb material is the one that is hard to find. Most of it is hidden in hours long videos and in this site's poorly browsable images section - I would like suggestions from people about where to look (like: "hey this image on "page x" might be good", or "UPF 11.11.11 had really good clip.").

Fuck, just went back to watch the real MacGyver intro. The parts where Dan/Angus eats the ice cream cone and it ending on both Dan and Angus puffing out their cheeks to blow out air was an inspired sync, as well as a few other synced up scenes.

Man, all of these are spot on.

Some candidates?
X-Files
A Team
The Joy of Painting with Bob Ross
The Wonder Years

The MacRyckert one is great!

Whoa, great job duder!

I JUST noticed the 6.0 Kane and Lynch graphic at that would have been "family lost everything".

It's the LITTLE things that make true hilarity shine through.

The Arrested Development one takes the cake. Great job with all of them, though.

Just found this when a reply post bumped the thread to the front page. This is pure gold. EXCELLENT WORK.

My off-the-top-of-my-head suggestions for future mash-ups would be The Office or Babylon 5.

Oh man, I need that True Bombers as a proper video!

The Giantbomb Nine-Nine video is fan-tastic! Also, the memories of the OG Giantbomb TV Intro is SO great!

These are all great but that one is still the king.

They're all pretty good and I always love seeing when people make new ones. My top favourite ones though are probably the AD, S4 1989, and MacRyckert.

The next video I've been working on is actually an Undertale animation, but the one after?

Fans of a certain old-school show with a catchy theme will like it. That's as specific as I'll be.

Thanks for the specific criticism @dudeglove, that helps a lot!

@charlie_victor_bravo: The MGS loading screen video would be good for Drew. The MGS stuff has Dan and Drew in steady shots at the beginning but they're not doing much and they're in night-vision I think. Austin is in the GB beast play dates. He also does rollplay stuff on roll20 twitch stuff but I don't think there is anything usable there. Jeff on UPF usually has shots of just him at the beginning. But yeah interesting steady shots of people. I'll keep a lookout for them. For Alex? Scoops and the wolf or if you can get the wrestling stuff of him from Pax where he's on stage. It might be a twitch archive.

Man, that Arrested Development one is glorious, so nailed, same goes for that Parks and Rec one. I think as you've gone on you've got better.

Arrested Development was most excellent- great job!

@izzygraze, @dudeglove: Thanks, I'll check those out.

...wait, was Dan making a pizza roll omelette?

That MacRyckert is inspired!

@kanerobot: ugh, someone should really clean the filth out of the comments though. I mean, christ, look at this jerk:

O god that Arrested Development one is just perfect.

You still got it! Thanks for making these.

These are too good, that Parks and Rec one is really amazing. Sadly, my own attempts at this haven't been going so well.

My favorite of the older ones for good measure.

I would love love love love LOVE a Giant Bomb/Gilmore Girls mashup!

Oh gosh I just love all of these.

These are fantastic! Wanted to show my appreciation. :)

Also..

Not sure how many of you were alive when this show was on, but man, if there was an opportunity for some comedic gold, it's right here.

Here for my daily viewing. Dota dota!

If you've already listened to this week's Beastcast, you probably heard an email from a Jesse in Australia asking for voiceover for their dumb cool thing.

Thaaaaaaaaat was me!

@somestickguy_: AHHH ITS GREAT. Keep up the good work duder.

@somestickguy_: Haha, that is great. I liked "revolving producer" Jeff Bakalar.

@somestickguy_: That is so good!

Some pretty amazing stuff on show here. Whoever did the Arrested Development one, I am super happy I am not the only fan of that show.