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Post by Ryan on May 4, 2005 18:33:29 GMT -5
I posted in your Goober Productions forum, and I am writing here to see if I can't get some pointers on how to make animations like Nim's Winter Tale. Was any of the animation frame-by-frame? How much do you think was frame-by-frame, as in percentage of the cartoon? Where/how did you get your music? I thought it was beautiful. Do you know a composer? I noticed it in the credits, but I was just wondering if you knew him personally. Also, a little criticism, what was the point of the dream sequence? I though it was hilarious, mind you, but it kind of took away from the peacefullness of the cartoon. Thanks a lot for making such a wonderful creation again.
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Post by reinout on May 5, 2005 1:07:46 GMT -5
dowload a composer of limewire or kazaa or so on its called winrar and you can make composed archives wih it its really easy to use I hope this helped you
reinout
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Post by Bogie on May 5, 2005 11:09:01 GMT -5
dowload a composer of limewire or kazaa or so on its called winrar and you can make composed archives wih it its really easy to use I hope this helped you reinout I don't think advertising illegal use of software is appropriate here... And another thing, winrar is an archiver, not a composer. With composer he meant a music composer, such as Beethoven and Mozart, who are, unfortunately, dead. But there are living ones too. How great is that !
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Post by Ola Schubert on May 5, 2005 12:55:37 GMT -5
Was any of the animation frame-by-frame? How much do you think was frame-by-frame, as in percentage of the cartoon? Where/how did you get your music? I thought it was beautiful. Do you know a composer? I noticed it in the credits, but I was just wondering if you knew him personally. Also, a little criticism, what was the point of the dream sequence? I though it was hilarious, mind you, but it kind of took away from the peacefullness of the cartoon. Thanks a lot for making such a wonderful creation again. Hi there. I am trying to avoid key by key animation as much as I can, but sometimes I am forced to use it. In Nim´s Winter Tale I have used it sparsely, maybe 3% of the film, maybe even less. The good thing with tweening is that you can control the animation with easing, and therefore get smooth motions. If you build the animation correctly it is also easy to control the change of speed. The music comes from Dearbhail Finnegan, she is an Irish harpist. One of my former students knows her and so we came in contact with each other. I have not met her yet. Apart from that I know some really skilled musicians who I will involve in Nim´s Journey. What was the point of the dream thing you wonder, well, how often have I not asked myself that waking up in the middle of the night with a fresh vision of myself being chased by angry radishes. The point with the dream is that sometimes dreams can be quite pointless. Apart from that I used it as a time cut so that we don’t know how long Nim actually waited there.
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Post by carmelhadinosaur on May 6, 2005 0:05:37 GMT -5
Hi Ola!!
I have a question, if I may ask.
How many layers are you working with? Im always trying to avoid many layers and concentrate movements into movieclips, but i'd like to see how you did it..
Thanks! Carmel
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Post by Ola Schubert on May 6, 2005 1:49:13 GMT -5
How many layers are you working with? Im always trying to avoid many layers and concentrate movements into movieclips, but i'd like to see how you did it.. Carmel Layers is the key to success, I use loads of layers. If I create a character, every shape need to be positioned on a seperate layer to gain full control. I can end up with 50-60 layers if the figure is detailed enough.
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Post by carmelhadinosaur on May 6, 2005 3:39:30 GMT -5
Layers is the key to success, I use loads of layers. If I create a character, every shape need to be positioned on a seperate layer to gain full control. I can end up with 50-60 layers if the figure is detailed enough. Yup, I fully agree. Yet, do you have each character with all it's layers as a symbol, or everything on the main scene, ending with thousands of layers? ;D Thanks for the reply!
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Post by Ola Schubert on May 6, 2005 16:21:37 GMT -5
They are made up of symbols, anything else would be suicide
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Post by carmelhadinosaur on May 6, 2005 23:24:08 GMT -5
They are made up of symbols, anything else would be suicide Roger that! Maybe I really should start putting parts of the body in layers instead of groups.. I just finished making a Pteranodon Sternbergi with about 80 groups, all in one layer..
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Post by Esn on May 7, 2005 4:13:58 GMT -5
Ahh... this is something I'll have to learn. I'm trying to finish an animation right now (not in Flash) and it's all completely frame-by-frame, even the background movements. You really would not believe how tedious it is... On the flip side, you do get more expressive motions.
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Post by Longover on May 8, 2005 17:33:04 GMT -5
Hello, I just finished viewing Nim's Winter Tale, and I must say that I am impressed. And if you have a moment I do have a question. How did you craft the smoke from the chimney? Was this skewing a movieclip or perhaps a program I am not familiar with?
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Post by Ola Schubert on May 9, 2005 8:12:23 GMT -5
Hello, I just finished viewing Nim's Winter Tale, and I must say that I am impressed. And if you have a moment I do have a question. How did you craft the smoke from the chimney? Was this skewing a movieclip or perhaps a program I am not familiar with? For the chimneysmoke I have used transparent lines, and as they pass over eachother they become more visible.
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