Conan's show on 05/15/03 is going to be all clay animation!
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Conan's show on 05/15/03 is going to be all......
clay animation!
This is probably one of the coolest and most original ideas ever!
This is probably one of the coolest and most original ideas ever!
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Originally posted by Rogue588
you sure it's not claymation..?
you sure it's not claymation..?
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I don't know if it's THE most original idea ever... I'd give anything to see the old clips of Letterman's show when the cameras rotated 360* over the course of the show.
Or when he strapped a camera to a monkey.
Claymation has potential.
Or when he strapped a camera to a monkey.
Claymation has potential.
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This was actually one of the ideas that Jerry Seinfeld claims to have gotten for the final season of his show. Well, I never did get to see a Klay Kramer, but I'm hoping a Clay Conan will make up for it.
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So how is this going to be done? Claymation takes a long ass time to do, so how will they keep next Thursday's show topical, considering they are probably already working on it? And what about the guests? Will they just record their voices, or will they actually tape the interviews?
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Originally posted by ClarkKentKY
I don't know if it's THE most original idea ever... I'd give anything to see the old clips of Letterman's show when the cameras rotated 360* over the course of the show.
Or when he strapped a camera to a monkey.
Claymation has potential.
I don't know if it's THE most original idea ever... I'd give anything to see the old clips of Letterman's show when the cameras rotated 360* over the course of the show.
Or when he strapped a camera to a monkey.
Claymation has potential.
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Actually this isnt the first time he's dabbled with clay animation. They used to do a skit/parody thingie called Tom Snyders Christmas Special that used it (in the same way they borrowed the Clutch Cargo mouth thing for their interviews).
I remember one gimmack show Conan did with an entire crowd of unruly children that was very weird, but a nice distraction.
I remember one gimmack show Conan did with an entire crowd of unruly children that was very weird, but a nice distraction.
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Here's an article from today's NY Post. I put the guests in spoilers just in case..
May 9, 2003 -- LOOK out, Mr. Bill - you'll want to cry "Oh no!" when you hear how Conan O'Brien has converted an entire edition of "Late Night" into clay animation. The all-clay "Late Night" is the result of six months of painstaking production work. It is scheduled to air next Thursday night on NBC.
O'Brien made the announcement during Wednesday night's show. He also showed a picture of himself rendered as a clay figure, complete with red hair, jacket, tie and immovable O-shaped mouth.
In fact, the figure's expression seemed inspired by the famous look of surprise worn years ago by the accident-prone Mr. Bill on "Saturday Night Live" when he realized he was about to be mashed by a giant fist or heavy object.
Unlike Mr. Bill, the all-clay "Late Night" is "violence-free," according to the show's head writer, Mike Sweeney, who also explained why the clay show was made.
"We kind of liked the idea of going to all this trouble just for a typical rerun of the show," Sweeney said. "It's just a new way to look at the same images, the same things that are on over and over every night for 1,700 shows. So it's a nice change of pace."
The all-clay "Late Night" was adapted from a show which aired originally last October. To make the clay version, "Late Night's" in-house animators (actually staffers in the show's scenic department) laboriously posed each clay figure hundreds of times to simulate movement.
All of the performers, including band members and other bit players, were reproduced as miniature clay figures who were animated on miniature models of the show's studio.
O'Brien made the announcement during Wednesday night's show. He also showed a picture of himself rendered as a clay figure, complete with red hair, jacket, tie and immovable O-shaped mouth.
In fact, the figure's expression seemed inspired by the famous look of surprise worn years ago by the accident-prone Mr. Bill on "Saturday Night Live" when he realized he was about to be mashed by a giant fist or heavy object.
Unlike Mr. Bill, the all-clay "Late Night" is "violence-free," according to the show's head writer, Mike Sweeney, who also explained why the clay show was made.
"We kind of liked the idea of going to all this trouble just for a typical rerun of the show," Sweeney said. "It's just a new way to look at the same images, the same things that are on over and over every night for 1,700 shows. So it's a nice change of pace."
The all-clay "Late Night" was adapted from a show which aired originally last October. To make the clay version, "Late Night's" in-house animators (actually staffers in the show's scenic department) laboriously posed each clay figure hundreds of times to simulate movement.
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All of the performers, including band members and other bit players, were reproduced as miniature clay figures who were animated on miniature models of the show's studio.
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just to be on the safe side.
some people [myself included] are, at times, spoiler sensitive.
'sides...it was only 19 extra characters I had to type...
some people [myself included] are, at times, spoiler sensitive.
'sides...it was only 19 extra characters I had to type...
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Just a bump for a reminder that this airs tonight!
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Just a bump for a reminder that this airs tonight!
Just a bump for a reminder that this airs tonight!
Also I think Conan is still being rerun the next day at 7 pm on Comedy Central isn't it?
That means a 2nd chance to see it tomorrow night.