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Post by Brownie on Aug 22, 2020 1:04:40 GMT -5
Yo yo sup
I've been watching tons of PMV/MAP recently (warriors and others) and Oh My did it spark my need for a bit of animation. So here's a thread for that.
Right now I'm in the 'all desire no work' stage though I do have a few scenes from one of my old fanfic that I have ALWAYS wanted to do a PMV on, so I've been doing storyboarding/frame sketches for that which are coming along Spicily. will update this with progress from those for sure.
Just wanted to drop in cuz I know a few of you do some animation and its fun! and challenging! And I want help from people more experienced because I have barely dipped my toes in animation and I would love to hear some tips! (I've been using firealpaca, but honestly hate its animation capacity, at least the built in onionskin mode one)
honestly I don't understand how people can lip sync in firealpaca at all, so if anyone has experience with audio + firealpaca animation plz help I'm thinking it might be easiest to do frames in firealpaca (using onionskin to do betweens) and port them to something else that better handles video/audio
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Post by 𝚜𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚔𝚜𝚌𝚊𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚛 on Aug 22, 2020 15:13:48 GMT -5
posts so i can see the advice as well
In my experience, which is just animation memes, I would port the frames to a video editor. I use SAI for the frames and blender for the video/audio because it's free lol
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Post by Brownie on Aug 22, 2020 15:58:08 GMT -5
ooo blender would be a good option!! I was looking for something free/cheap/one time buy. I might get flash cuz I get huge discounts for student and that might be manageable, but I really don't want to learn how flash objects work tbh
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Post by 𝚜𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚔𝚜𝚌𝚊𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚛 on Aug 22, 2020 18:54:46 GMT -5
That's fair! Once you figured it out, it would be great. But figuring it out is a whole other task haha
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Post by 𝚜𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚔𝚜𝚌𝚊𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚛 on Aug 23, 2020 22:13:45 GMT -5
Update: This inspired me to start another animation meme lol
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Post by mintedstar/fur🦇 on Aug 23, 2020 22:56:31 GMT -5
Oh ho ho? We have a hang-out?
I've been working far too long on a personal animation project and it's killing me slowly. :')
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Post by Brownie on Aug 23, 2020 23:29:52 GMT -5
ye hang out
and ooooo I love watching those!! They seem fun hopefully we can see a finished product (;
big mood. animation is HArd
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Post by 𝚜𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚔𝚜𝚌𝚊𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚛 on Aug 24, 2020 0:23:18 GMT -5
animation is SO HARD. And very time consuming haha. Though I think the hardest part for me is the video editing part :3
What's this project Mint??? :0
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Post by mintedstar/fur🦇 on Aug 25, 2020 0:00:52 GMT -5
Apparently I was like "Ah yes! Let's animate a whole 4 hour song with full detailed colors (minimum movement than GOODNESS) to the plot of my character Samuel! Why would that be so hard?"
~ 4 years later
"Oh. Oh. Now I get it."
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Post by 𝚜𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚔𝚜𝚌𝚊𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚛 on Aug 25, 2020 9:07:20 GMT -5
WOW that's quite the task!! I don't know how you're still alive lol
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Post by Brownie on Aug 25, 2020 22:14:53 GMT -5
how did you even find a 4hr song???? that's like, two movie soundtracks put together
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Post by mintedstar/fur🦇 on Aug 27, 2020 1:44:58 GMT -5
Wait. I meant 4 minutes. XD Where was my head?
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Post by Brownie on Aug 27, 2020 13:06:14 GMT -5
that makes a lot more sense lmao
I've just been working on an animatic for a PMV because it would take literal years to full animate. It's hard enough doing 1 frame every 3-5s ish rather than like, 1fps lined and colored
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Post by 𝚜𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚔𝚜𝚌𝚊𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚛 on Aug 27, 2020 13:08:52 GMT -5
You guys have such big tasks! Can't wait to see how they both come out.
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Post by mintedstar/fur🦇 on Aug 28, 2020 4:57:45 GMT -5
Neither can I. XD
The WIP doesn't look half bad.
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Post by mintedstar/fur🦇 on Sept 4, 2020 7:48:04 GMT -5
//waves finger loosely around before collapsing// 14 hours. And it's 6 AM. And I'm done. @.@ I finished. A PMV which I also started today. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh
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Post by 𝚜𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚔𝚜𝚌𝚊𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚛 on Sept 4, 2020 10:30:19 GMT -5
Ripppp get some good sleep Mint :0
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Post by mintedstar/fur🦇 on Sept 4, 2020 14:35:15 GMT -5
Slept til 12, does that count? XD
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Post by mintedstar/fur🦇 on Sept 13, 2020 2:26:46 GMT -5
Anything anyone is currently doing?
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Post by 𝚜𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚔𝚜𝚌𝚊𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚛 on Sept 13, 2020 9:01:22 GMT -5
I should be working on the animation meme I started, but my problem is that if I don't finish it in a day I lose interest in working on it lol
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Post by Brownie on Sept 13, 2020 17:40:51 GMT -5
big mood
I occasionally hear the song I want to work with but I'm always away for a while when I hear it and forget when I get back
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Post by mintedstar/fur🦇 on Sept 14, 2020 21:40:15 GMT -5
I'm sitting here struggling to work out what to work on while all my WIPs stare daggers into the back of my head.
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Post by Brownie on Sept 14, 2020 22:40:22 GMT -5
same tho
I've just been doodling ideas down for the worldbuild and trying to invent the microscope again cuz I don't own one and I need one so I've been hooking up lights and tubes and its slowly working
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Post by mintedstar/fur🦇 on Sept 15, 2020 12:56:07 GMT -5
That is so cool! What are you trying to look at?
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Post by Brownie on Sept 15, 2020 13:40:28 GMT -5
ants
I've been slackin on my ant collection this year and so decided yesterday to start actually going through everything I've collected this summer (which... isn't as much as I'd like and its too late to get the variety I should probably be having).
I should just cave and take some extra hours so I can buy a used binocular scope (and one of those fancy pin-holder-turner things while I'm at it) because trying to use a series of lenses taped together, a makeshift holder and some bright lamps is... needlessly difficult to see ant teeth and hairs and count ocelli (esp on the smaller ones, like <1mm). it's not impossible, just slow. the upside is that this way is completely free (and I'm both poor and cheap so that's a lot less stressful sometimes)
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Post by mintedstar/fur🦇 on Sept 15, 2020 13:42:24 GMT -5
That is super interesting!
Hey, building it honestly probably is more fun. XD
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Post by 𝚜𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚔𝚜𝚌𝚊𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚛 on Sept 21, 2020 18:00:39 GMT -5
I attempted to start the animation again and I'm making slow progress :3 How is everyone else doing?
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Post by Brownie on Sept 21, 2020 19:22:48 GMT -5
Nice!!
and I might be instead trying a pixel animation again... idk I saw a few good ones and it made me want to sprite again
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Post by 𝚜𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚔𝚜𝚌𝚊𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚛 on Sept 21, 2020 20:04:20 GMT -5
OOoo that sounds cool! I've never done pixel animation, but it's always way cool to see.
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