Rackspace Fanatiguy LEGO Mascot Sculpture
April 12th, 2007 Posted in Movies
Fanatiguy LEGO Build – More amazing videos are a click away
SureCLICK brought Nathan Sawaya to Rackspace to build us a six foot tall sculpture of our mascot.
Since he only had about 4 hours on-site most of the assembly was done in his NY Studio and shipped here in pieces.
See Also:
flickr.com/photos/antonolsen/sets/72157600065786141/
flickr.com/photos/edmao/sets/72157600068310774/
April 17th, 2007 at 1:17 pm
That is awesome, Anton!! I’m so impressed! It turned out great!
April 28th, 2007 at 9:56 pm
What software did you use to stitch the photos together into a video?
May 1st, 2007 at 8:43 am
I used ImageMagick (mogrify) to crop the original images to 1920×1080 then I used mencoder to convert the images to an mpeg4.
You can specfy an input source as mf://*JPG to indicate that you want multiple files to be read.
More info can be seen here:
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/menc-feat-enc-images.html
The command I used was something like:
mencoder mf://IMG*.JPG -mf fps=8:type=jpg -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=1024 -ffourcc XVID -o output.avi
Once I had a nice quality xvid I used mencoder again to crop it to a 4:3 aspect and scale it down to a size that was practical to upload.
June 12th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
This is why I am paying a premium for my dedicated services. HAHA this is also why I moved my servers to server intellect for better support. Keep building legos rackspace cuz that is fixing my server as we speak.