2009 - M3tatweening is 6 years old so the links are mostly bad
Youtube removed Phase 3 but Phase 1 is hosted here
M3tatweening is 1 year old today!
Here are the latest Download Links - 12/01/04
Phases 3&4 combined divx 5.05 download - with Goldfrapp & Blue States 102 MB
Phases 3&4 combined divx 5.05 download - with Goldfrapp & Blue States - mirror 102 MB
Phases 3&4 combined divx 5.05 download - with Goldfrapp & Blue States - mirror 2 102 MB - For best results you should download these first.
The server can't handle high traffic so please be patient and try later if it's busy.
Phases 3&4 combined realmedia broadband stream/download - with Goldfrapp & Blue States 41 MB
Phases 3&4 combined realmedia 56k stream/download - with Goldfrapp & Blue States 6.3 MB
Thanks to izb, Cassidy, Gr33dy and tef for hosting these. If you'd like to share the m3tatweens in your p2p
programs that would be good too. Let me know of any details to help people find them.
Phase 3 Phase 3 Quicktime format - with Goldfrapp 14 MB
Phase 3 Phase 3 Windows media format - (No sound) 8 MB - OFFLINE
Download Phase 2 DivX - Best Quality (With sound) 18 MB
Stream (mainly for dial-up) Phase 2 Streaming Realmedia (Low Quality sound) - OFFLINE
Download Phase 1 DivX (With sound) 15.7 MB
Stream (mainly for dial-up) Phase 1 Streaming Realmedia (Silent version) - OFFLINE
Download Phase 1 DivX (Silent version) 5 MB - OFFLINE: It's better with audio.
Download DivX player
UPDATE: 09/09/03 - m3tatweening shown twice so far
Phase 3&4 combined was shown (after a few hithces) at the Timeless festival on Saturday and quite
a lot of m3tatweeners and other b3tans were in attendance. I've got some photos of the whole
weekend, which also saw it being shown to a even more m3tatweeners & b3tans in London on Sunday.
Click for gallery.
Thanks go to Lisa at Short Circuits & Dan for making it happen :)
I've added some Blue States to the soundtrack ('Elios Therepia', 'Hero's Elegy', 'Walkabout',
and 'The Trainer Shuffle' in that order) as well as letting Phase 3's song by Goldfrapp
continue into the start of Phase 4. A CD with all the m3tatweens so far is doing the rounds
and being spread amongst m3tatweeners and other b3tans - a 335MB version of phase 3&4 together
is on there as well as high res versions of 1 & 2 and some of my other films.
UPDATE: 03/09/03 - Come see M3tatweening LIVE on the BIG SCREEN for FREE
M3tatweening has gone up a gear now. Phase 4 has been made at 720x576 (PAL resolution)
thanks to a number of factors, one of which was being invited by Short Circuits to contribute to the
Timeless Festival which will have various bands, DJ's and films and will give people the
chance to see m3tatweening on the big screen.
Phase 4 followed on from phase 3 and I got another 27 segments done (eventually) with
a lot of people putting a lot of hours and hard work into it and some wonderful people
helping out at the last minute as I struggled to get it all completed.
UPDATE: 09/07/03
The third phase has had the animation completed and is ready for it's initial showing.
Here it is in wmv format with no soundtrack and see this page for a quicktime version with sound
courtesy of the wonderful Goldfrapp (the track is the Ewan Pearson vocal remix of 'Train').
UPDATE: 23/05/03
The World Premieres of the first two Phases are taking place this weekend at the light plays tricks 6 short film festival.
I was invited by Ad, the Director of the festival, to have them shown.
Phase 003 is in the planning process so keyframes are welcome as always (Digital photos ideal).
UPDATE: 30/01/03
Phase 1 (001-021) now has a soundtrack too. Click to download (Hosted by Spacefish).
In order to enhance the experience of watching the m3tatween, Spacefish organised the making of
a soundtrack to accompany it. The task of writing it was divided amongst five musicians, each
given the task of producing an atmospheric accompaniment to a section of the silent video.
The eclectic results were mixed with the original m3tatween, to produce this musical version.
Music by, in order of appearance: Bob The Dinosaur, Kallus, Brainstuff, Koit & Spacefish.
UPDATE: 28/01/03
Phase 2 (021-041) with a Mr Scruff soundtrack!! Click for best version. It fits very well. (18 MB zip file)
Big thanks to Donthaveaclue for the hosting. If you cant play it download a DivX player.
For those on dial-up here's some RealMedia multi-rate streaming versions of
Phase 1 (silent version) & Phase 2 (lower quality sound) Thanks to Corpolite for making
& hosting these, there are a limited number of simultaneous connections so be patient.
UPDATE: 26/01/03
Phase 2 (021-041) is complete! Click for Phase 2 (Silent version) DivX 4 avi format (12.5 MB).
WOW! - Bigger and stranger, I decided to accept movie formats too not just gifs.
A HUGE THANK YOU to everyone that's contributed keyframes and animations to all the,
phases so far. You've all helped to capture this unseen potential that has been
floating around unnoticed for so long.
UPDATE 12/01/03
Phase 1 (001-021) is here: Click for Phase 1 (Silent version) DivX 4 avi format (5 MB).
If the avis won't play you might need this divX codec/player.
What Is M3tatweening?
2003 sees the first experiments in m3tatweening. Tweening is when you fill in the gaps
between two keyframes in an animation, but in this case it refers to the unrestricted
creative animations people use to get from their start image to their end image.
I wondered what would happen if you got a lot of random images to use as keyframes,
assigned them a random order and then got different people to tween from one to the
next as animated gifs with no idea what everyone else was doing.
The end result would be a non-stop stream of consciousness from the collective mind
of those that took part. I decided to see what this would look like.
I invited people on the www.b3ta.com messageboard to become my first m3tatweeners. There
were many eager participants and before I knew it I had 21 people tweening away and about
a week later I'd got all of the sections joined together to make the Phase 1 animation.
I see this as an ongoing project that could scale upwards easily and have hundreds of
different phases being done according to the same principles. They could then have
their completed start and end keyframes tweened together with other phases
to keep the animation growing and growing.
This Is Wonderful - How Can I Participate In It?
You can take part in 2 ways. Either by sending in your keyframes (at least 640 x 480
pixels, good quality & copyright free please - other than that nearly anything goes)
or by doing some animation - you will get e-mailed a start frame and an end frame and
it's up to you to decide how to get from one to the other. You can use Flash/Premiere etc
and give me a video file rather than a gif for a higher quality final animation.
Many thanks to the people that have done the first 2 phases of animations. Please be
patient if you want to take part, Phase 2 took a couple of weeks to complete and I've got
nearly all I need for Phase 3. So if you aren't in the next one I will contact you for
future phases. (B3tans, please include your username in the e-mail).
E-mail me on this address.
These are the m3tatweeners so far:
001 - 002 Radio Controlled Monk
002 - 003 Koit
003 - 004 Bovine
004 - 005 Tedmus
005 - 006 100% Kitten
006 - 007 Slocombe
007 - 008 Sprinkles
008 - 009 Chaotic_Illuminator
009 - 010 DogsBollocks
010 - 011 Wayward
011 - 012 Barnsey
012 - 013 Spoon
013 - 014 Brainstuff
014 - 015 Artamnesia
015 - 016 Nevermind
016 - 017 Brassmonkey
017 - 018 Boot
018 - 019 Monkeyboyblue
019 - 020 Kostyabwoy
020 - 021 Flash_Bastard & Tart_Monkey
Phase 2:
021 - 022 Bananaman
022 - 023 Rogan
023 - 024 Greedy
024 - 025 Izb
025 - 026 Baj
026 - 027 Freshlegs
027 - 028 Spacefish
028 - 029 Fonz
029 - 030 EverStoned
030 - 031 Kostyabwoy
031 - 032 Spanky
032 - 033 Mingus
033 - 034 Kallus
034 - 035 Kamikazee Killmouse
035 - 036 Bud Muhnquai
036 - 037 Munkt0n
037 - 038 MrBongo
038 - 039 Hugo Rune
039 - 040 Santexo
040 - 041 Wurz_el
Phase 3 used differently dimensioned keyframes and doesn't follow on directly:
001 - 002 Strange God
002 - 003 Harkman
003 - 004 Pixel Masher
004 - 005 Kittywaste
005 - 006 Artamnesia
006 - 007 100% Kitten
007 - 008 Punk Rock Generation
008 - 009 Menub
009 - 010 Obz
010 - 011 Popt Art
011 - 012 Supermoore
012 - 013 Vulga
013 - 014 Trashcanglam
014 - 015 Boot
015 - 016 Breel
016 - 017 Koit
017 - 018 Sophie The Viking
Phase 4 continued right on from keyframe 018:
018 - 019 Trashcanglam
019 - 020 GR33DY
020 - 021 Brassmonkey
021 - 022 Supermoore
022 - 023 Koit
023 - 024 Barnsey
024 - 025 Popt_Art
025 - 026 Eclectech
026 - 027 Sunshine Elephant
027 - 028 Mingus
028 - 029 Rogan
029 - 030 Pootle
030 - 031 Mystery Bob
031 - 032 Wheatox
032 - 033 Eclectech
033 - 034 Pickled Pizza
034 - 035 izb
035 - 036 Larry Mudd
036 - 037 Slim
037 - 038 Hugo Rune
038 - 039 Bananaman
039 - 040 Brainstuff
040 - 041 Kamikazee Killmouse
041 - 042 Fnord
042 - 043 Fnord
043 - 044 Monkeymanblue
044 - 045 Harkman
Any questions or comments can be e-mailed here
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