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Waaaay back in late 2013, I was looking around on Wikipedia for the history of animation, you know, for teh lulz. I came across what was thought to be a lost animation from 1908 called, “The Puppet’s Nightmare,” by Émile Cohl. Here is a link to the film for anyone interested in watching it.
After I watched it, I was inspired me to make my own animation. I immediately ran to the kitchen, grabbed a shitty ass, worn out, Dollar Tree whiteboard, some shitty ass, dried out, Dollar Tree whiteboard markers, and my camera which was running on nearly dead batteries, and started working on an animation.
One stress filled hour later and I finally managed to get 1/10 of my idea out before the markers completely dried up, the whiteboard was nothing but smudges, and the batteries in the camera died.
I then took the pictures and loaded them on to Windows Movie Maker 2.6. (A.K.A. The worst version of the worst video editing software out there.) Since this was at the beginning of YouTube’s new horrible Copyright ID system, I couldn’t use any music I wanted to use in it. So I proceeded to make random ass sound effects on a Moog Synthesizer emulator, and called it music and sound effects. But when I tried to import these sounds in to WMM, kept giving me a fucking error message and didn’t load any of them. Eventually, load some of the sound effects, but not all of them. And then once I started to put the pieces together, my computer that was outdated by 2005 started to lag like shit, and fucked up most of my work. The render time for the damn 1:40 atrocity took 20 minutes because of that.
Finally once the video was uploaded to YouBoob, I finally got to witness my absolute failure I dare call, ‘an animation’.
My 14 year old as was pissed at the results, I hated everything about it, all that stress and work for absolutely nothing. But the weird thing was, everyone seemed to like it. My Mom thought it was fantastic, so much so, that she showed it to everyone she worked with at church. They all loved it. Hell, the video has one damn like and no dislikes.
Recently, I’ve been planning on starting to do some animations, just for the fun of it. In fact, just today, I made this subpar animation of Tiffany Blackheart.(I have to call her Elizabeth on Tumblr for reasons I will not explain.)
I drew each frame in PaintToolSAI, and compiled them in to a gif in GIMP 2.8. I’m not completely void of knowledge on how to make an animation, as you can tell, but I’m not that good either.
Can someone give me some tips on how to animate properly, or at least with the programs I’m using?
After I watched it, I was inspired me to make my own animation. I immediately ran to the kitchen, grabbed a shitty ass, worn out, Dollar Tree whiteboard, some shitty ass, dried out, Dollar Tree whiteboard markers, and my camera which was running on nearly dead batteries, and started working on an animation.
One stress filled hour later and I finally managed to get 1/10 of my idea out before the markers completely dried up, the whiteboard was nothing but smudges, and the batteries in the camera died.
I then took the pictures and loaded them on to Windows Movie Maker 2.6. (A.K.A. The worst version of the worst video editing software out there.) Since this was at the beginning of YouTube’s new horrible Copyright ID system, I couldn’t use any music I wanted to use in it. So I proceeded to make random ass sound effects on a Moog Synthesizer emulator, and called it music and sound effects. But when I tried to import these sounds in to WMM, kept giving me a fucking error message and didn’t load any of them. Eventually, load some of the sound effects, but not all of them. And then once I started to put the pieces together, my computer that was outdated by 2005 started to lag like shit, and fucked up most of my work. The render time for the damn 1:40 atrocity took 20 minutes because of that.
Finally once the video was uploaded to YouBoob, I finally got to witness my absolute failure I dare call, ‘an animation’.
My 14 year old as was pissed at the results, I hated everything about it, all that stress and work for absolutely nothing. But the weird thing was, everyone seemed to like it. My Mom thought it was fantastic, so much so, that she showed it to everyone she worked with at church. They all loved it. Hell, the video has one damn like and no dislikes.
Recently, I’ve been planning on starting to do some animations, just for the fun of it. In fact, just today, I made this subpar animation of Tiffany Blackheart.(I have to call her Elizabeth on Tumblr for reasons I will not explain.)
I drew each frame in PaintToolSAI, and compiled them in to a gif in GIMP 2.8. I’m not completely void of knowledge on how to make an animation, as you can tell, but I’m not that good either.
Can someone give me some tips on how to animate properly, or at least with the programs I’m using?
