Zlogspot - animationandvideo

Way back in February of 2014 I began working on my very first CrazyTalk Animator 2, Multi-Dimensional character . Formerly known as the Skate Monkey , the character has since been retitled the Bored Monkey in line with a new series of skateboard graphics I'm planning to feature him on. If you'd like to know the history of the character's development you can read it in these blog posts; Part 1 , Part 2 and Part 3 . These posts include sample videos of the character in action. Below is the last demo video I created. By the end of February 2014 I'd hit a couple of stumbling blocks with the character that took the wind out of my sails in terms of enthusiasm for continuing to work on it. The first was an issue with character styles in CrazyTalk Animator 2. I wanted my character to be fully compatible with these but when I changed the monkey's style to line art, you can see in the image below that some body parts remained filled in with red. Changing the character to L...

Explaindio Video Creator is an easy to use presentation video creator that is geared towards marketing and sales videos but could be used to create any kind of presentation video. I was convinced by the sales pitch that it would be very easy to use and I was particularly impressed by the white board features. It also looked to be an improvement over both  VideoMakerFX and EasySketchPro two other programs that I bought and reviewed . Having now used Explaindio it is, in many ways, similar to VideoMakerFX and feels very much like an upgraded version of the same product with enhanced white board and other video features. If you purchase the program it comes with a whole bunch of extras, the most important of which is the content libraries including; graphics, fonts, music, backgrounds and templates. These are the things you'll rely on if your artistic skills are some what lacking. The claim is that almost anyone could buy this software, learn it fairly quickly and have a finished vid...

MotionArtist is dedicated composition software for creating animated comics, otherwise known as Motion Comics. That is, rather than create fully animated cartoons, it allows you to take static cartoon panels and add movement and audio to create a more engaging experience. The type of Motion Comic MotionArtist can produce falls somewhere between reading a comic and watching a cartoon but generally, feels more like reading a very cool comic than watching a severely limited animated cartoon. MotionArtist has dedicated tools for creating comic book panels with their own self contained animations. It also makes it simple to animate across multiple panels and even animate the panels themselves. Everything is done using key frames displayed on your comic's timeline with individual panels containing their own timelines to control the animation contained within it. There are three modes which you switch between that does take some getting used to. My First ComiPo! Comic. Director mode let...

Dan by Gary Pye. Dan the Business man is a creation of Reallusion's Animation@Work competition winner and Australian cartoonist, Gary Pye . Gary's been flat out creating CrazyTalk Animator 2 content featuring his own cartoon art, which you can purchase from his Reallusion Content Market place store . I love Gary's art so much I've pretty much purchased probably a third or more of everything he's created for CTA2 thus far. Whilst I can't take credit for his Dan character I can say it was from my suggestion that Gary created Dan the Business Man and the related office content packs (including the lucky gonk/troll prop). So, having made the suggestion, and bought so much of Gary's content it would be wrong to not actually use it. Eventually I'll offer Dan the Business man as an option for my Animation 4 Business clients but I also wanted to have some fun animating him myself. With that in mind, below is the first, of what I plan to be a five or six part se...