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Updated with Vimeo version, ROFLCon panel, links and source list.

My latest supercut which premiered at ROFLCon III in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The soundtrack and more great music by my brother Joel can be found on his bandcamp page.

I’ve been getting a few YouTube comments asking for a list of where all the clips came from so I’ll put that at the end of this post. Apologies if you’ve been waiting for this or if I missed your favourite three point landing. If you see a new one, please leave a comment here or add it to the TV tropes page. Maybe I’ll revisit this supercut one day.

The full supercuts panel with with Andy Baio, Aaron Valdez and Rich Juzwiak is available to watch on YouTube thanks to PopSpot. I’m in part 3 but you should watch the other guys as they are way more interesting.

As I did with Let’s Enhance, here are some notable places where this video showed up (in no particular order):

Roger Ebert’s Journal: Crazy. There must be well known editors of actual movies who have never been mentioned by Roger Ebert. Can’t wait to use his “nifty” quote on a poster.

Edgar Wright’s Supercut Sunday.

The Verge: I was also interviewed by the writer of this piece for this short video about ROFLCon.

The Atlantic, Gizmodo, Kotaku, Gawker, Wired, Buzzfeed, Team Coco, Huffington Post, Know Your Meme, Laughing Squid, G4TV, msnNOW.

Plus Twitter mentions from Empire Magazine, MC Frontalot, Kirby (Everything is a Remix) Ferguson amongst others.

SOURCES
The Animatrix – Final Flight of the Osiris
Scott Pilgrim Versus The World
Mass Effect 2
Avatar – The Last Airbender
Avatar
Fright Night
The Avengers
Dante’s inferno
Iron Man 2
Sucker Punch
DC Universe Online
Catwoman
Sucker Punch
Elektra
Prey 2
Tron Legacy
Matrix
Devil May Cry 4
The Man From Nowhere
Streetfighter: The Legend Of Chun Li
Gnomeo and Juliet
Matrix
Treasure Planet
Matrix
Oni
Tron Uprising
9
Stephen Fry
Skyward Sword
Metroid: Other M
Kingdom Hearts 2
Space Stallions
Iron Baby
FF Advent Children
Dirge of Cerberus
Puss in Boots
Transformers game
Catwoman
The Avengers
Kid Icarus
Ghost in the Shell
Azureus Rising
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Sucker Punch
Justice League Doom
Tron Legacy
Oni
Section 8
Assassin’s Creed Revelations
Iron Man 2
Blade
N Sync – Bye Bye Bye
Resident Evil Operation Raccoon City
Spiderman 2
Imagi’s Gatchaman Trailer
I-Robot
Prep and Landing
FF VII Crisis Core
FF VII Crisis Core
Naruto
TMNT
Underworld 4
Harry Potter 7 part 2
Devil May Cry 4
Harry Potter 7 part 2
Tron Legacy
Oni
Stephen Fry
Gnomeo and Juliet
Sucker Punch
Justice League Doom
Naruto
Assassin’s Creed Revelations
Scott Pilgrim
FF VII Crisis Core
Blade
Matrix
The Avengers
Tron Legacy
The Animatrix – Final Flight of the Osiris
N Sync – Bye Bye Bye

Here’s an appropriate video for my blog which hasn’t seen an update in almost a year.

In December last year I made this supercut for the Columbus Museum of Art. It’s currently showing there as part of their Currents series. I’ll write a more detailed post on it soon.

In related news, I have been invited to appear at ROFLCon III in May, where I will be on Andy Baio’s supercuts panel. Really excited about this. I’m working on a new supercut for the occasion.

Follow me on twitter and tumblr for more regular updates. If all goes to plan, I’ll be graduating from Animation Mentor in the summer so I’ll post some of my animation work here soon.

Six months in to my Animation Mentor course and I’ve reached the end of class 2. My previs job in London is over and I’m now back in San Francisco taking a 3 month leave of absence from AM to get married. If I have time amongst all the planning I’ll be starting a small animation project of my own to keep what I’ve learnt so far from trickling out of my brain.

Animation Mentor – Class 1 – Week 7 from Duncan Robson on Vimeo.

I was planning on posting my AM work every week but I’ve been so busy with work and moving recently, that would mean spending less time on the assignment.

I’ll post a progress reel at the end of each term with the odd extra bit like Tailor here. I was quite happy with how this one turned out. Could use a bit more polishing but there’s no time, got to move on to the next assignment…

Nothing to show you yet but I’m excited about the rest of the term.

I’m back in the UK for a while and I’ve just been accepted as a student at Animation Mentor which is a great online school I discovered while I was in San Francisco. If you’re reading this, you are probably also an AM student, so hi!

Over the next 18 months, if I can succesfully juggle my animation schooling with work, I will use this blog to document my transformation from motion editor/crowd TD to ANIMATOR.

This new focus should result in more regular updates on this blog starting with bouncing balls and progressing to characters and acting. Eventually, if all goes well, I’ll have an awesome new animation reel when I graduate. Hopefully I’ll still have time for the occasional silly sideline which I’ll stick on my tumblr. I’m also @dunkr on twitter.

12Mb Quicktime - shot list - resume

I started by asking for examples on ask.metafilter.com and the first answer, a link to the Enhance button page on tvtropes.org, was probably the most useful resource. I also used various torrent, subtitle and transcript sites. I spent a few weeks downloading and editing, and managed to get it done before the Christmas break. My brother Joel did some great music in Garage Band which I re-cut the video to. After uploading to YouTube I posted it to my tumblr, b3ta and waxy’s amazing supercuts page (to which I’d previously contributed “My Arse!”).

I was pretty pleased with how it turned out but I’d never have predicted that 6 weeks later it would have over HALF A MILLION views. It’s been pretty exciting seeing my little video spread around the internet. It’s unlikely I’ll ever repeat the success of “Let’s Enhance” so I thought I’d use this blog to catalog some of the more interesting or surprising places it showed up. Reading the comments on some of these blogs I’ve found some great enhance clips I missed and even learnt something about Eigenvalues.

waxy.org/links:  Andy Baio got the ball rolling. He’s good at that. He even sent me a nice email.

Boing Boing:  They previously posted my Dance Dance Industrial Revolution pic.

kottke.org:  He previously posted my Bunk and McNulty go skiing picture.

b3ta newsletter:  After a few years of photoshops, my first mention in the “puerile digital arts community” newsletter.

reddit and digg:  Most of the views came from these guys. They are HUGE.

Slate, The Atlantic, Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times: WTF?!

Gizmodo, Buzzfeed, Videogum, Metafilter:  Nice that it made it back to MeFi.

Felicia Day:  Popular actress and geek. I wonder if she knows any of the actors doing the enhancing.

Official Photoshop Blog:  If I ever update this video, Avatar will be the first clip I add.

Motionographer:  I love how someone says in the comments, “Duncan Robson has a pretty solid CV”. Thanks!

A real-life image processing expert, The Vancouver Police Museum, The CEO of MotionDSP - Makers of actual video enhancement software.

Jesse Thorn:  Host of awesome public radio show The Sound of Young America.

Screenwriter John August.

An interesting essay about “appropriation artists”.

A CBC radio interview with fantasy user interface designer Mark Coleran.

A seminar series on genre fiction at King’s College London is called “Let’s Enhance”.

Clients From Hell:  It doesn’t stop! Just yesterday it was blogged here which means new followers on tumblr, twitter mentions, youtube subscribers and a bunch of comments.

It’s been fun but also pretty distracting, especially when I’m supposed to be looking for work. This is why I felt the need to write all this down, so I can concentrate on the next thing. It won’t be another supercut. It might be an animated short.