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Drawn tests · NOBODY, THE SIRENS, ARGOS

The first three drawn shots: figures in archive plates, Homer asked by the CALL track and answered by archive speech.

Running time
1:55
Made
2026-10-18
Program
The Found Odyssey
Characters
Odysseus
File
mp4, 960 wide, 10 MB

Production notes · The Found Odyssey, drawn: three test shots

This reel runs 1:56. It has a title card and three shots, each with its own card:

  • NOBODY, Book IX: 24 s.
  • THE SIRENS, Book XII: 33 s.
  • ARGOS, Book XVII: 50 s.

Sound (observed)

This part is about the sound. Watch with it on.

The sound in each shot is the Found Odyssey CALL track for the scene, taken from the cineosis-lab repo (lab/odyssey/found-audio/call/). In this track the studio line plays first, then the archive's spoken answer.

  • I cut out the lines and placed them with pauses of my own. I did not change the words or the order.
  • Under the answers, the captions show the source film and year for each answer.
Shot Scene Lines Archive answers from
NOBODY OD-B09-S08 9–11 Humor and Health (NIH forum, 1993) twice, then Hi Diddle Diddle
THE SIRENS OD-B12-S03 7–9 Communications and Our Town (1947), Introduction to Haiti (1942), Man On The Land (1951)
ARGOS OD-B17-S03 0–2 and 8 Mother Mack Trains Her Seven Puppies (1952), Mother Mack's Puppies Find Happy Homes (1953), Fire! Patty Learns What to Do (1951), All in One (1938)
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Candidate plates Candidate archive plates laid out side by side before one was chosen for the sign or scene.

Picture (observed)

This part separates what came from the archive from what was made here.

The footage comes from clips in the cineosis-lab archive library (lab/clips/). These are not the clips the Found Odyssey picked for these lines, because those are hosted on r2.dev and this workspace could not reach them.

Shot
NOBODY
Clip
Eyes and Their Care (An Introduction), 1941: an eye in extreme close-up
How it plays
Retimed so the eye holds still while he talks and blinks on each answer
Shot
THE SIRENS
Clip
Amateur Film Medicus09a: surf
How it plays
Two stretches, slowed, joined by a dissolve
1:38 “He rolls over and over”
Shot
ARGOS
Clip
Mother Mack Trains Her Seven Puppies, 1952: puppies by driftwood on a beach
How it plays
Slowed while the narrator speaks, faster for "He rolls over and over"

The ARGOS footage is from the same film the archive answers line 0 with.

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Style tests A style test: the same drawn figure set into the footage in one candidate way. 12 more on the case study page
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Reel frames Frames from a review reel, used to check the shots in sequence. 14 more on the case study page
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Check frames A check frame pulled from the assembled film to look at one moment before the cut was locked.

Drawn (generated)

This part separates what came from the archive from what was made here.

  • Characters and props: Odysseus, the two crewmen, the black-figure ship, the Sirens' vase panel, the stake, the staff and the ropes. All are original designs.
  • References: the references you sent were used only for drawing principles:
  • ink line and flat colour, with long rubber-hose limbs, from the packaging art;
  • the black-figure vase panel;
  • drawn figures that touch real footage, cast shadows on it, and are shaded to match its light, from the live-action and animation films.
  • Animation: bodies are keyed by hand in the rig (crash/m_od1.js to m_od3.js) and drawn by ody/toon.py. Lines are redrawn every second frame.
  • Mouths: Odysseus's mouth in NOBODY and the Sirens' mouths follow the loudness of the audio.
  • Generated sound: footsteps, the sea and surf beds, and a faint fire-truck wail under the Sirens' first answer.

Review

This is where the blind reviews come in.

No one has reviewed these shots yet.

More from The Found Odyssey

ODY-E1 3:27Episode 1 · NOBODYBook 9 in three minutes: a prompt box asks for the hero's name, the archive asks for "our young friend's", and Odysseus answers "Nobody." ODY-E2 8:29Episode 2 · THE GUEST-GIFTThe Cyclops again, as a flashback at the Phaeacian feast, told by two tellers who remember it differently. The experiment: the recollection-image. ODY-E3 8:21Episode 3 · THE RAFTBook 5 as one story, each act seen from the point of view of whoever is watching it: the gods on their television, Calypso, Poseidon, the sea. ODY-E4 6:29Episode 4 · CIRCEBook 10 re-cut around one line per scene, the place where power shifts: the Laestrygonians, Circe, and the order to sail to the house of Death.