Zlogspot - animationandvideo

Rocque GoAnimator Rocque is the September winner of my GoAnimate, Get Featured in TET's Blog contest . Rocque has had her account with GoAnimate since March of 2011 and in that time has amassed 915 followers and published 78 animations. Rocque chose to feature her animation Baby New Year (Part 5) , saying... "I chose this animation to feature because I think it is my favorite one so far out of the series that started as Baby New Year then was going into a series titled 2012 . It seems so long ago now. This one is special because of the incredible voice acting. I was honored to have Hollywood3514 , Latin Fire , J Files Graphics , and RoTV take time out of their busy schedules to lend voices. It was almost 6 minutes long and there were a lot of lines." Watch Rocque's animation below and then read about her inspiration and challenges in creating the video. Baby New Year Part 5 by Rocque on GoAnimate Inspiration... When 2011 was nearing its end there were so ...

I can't begin to describe how hard it is to work on a business explainer animation that has a terrible script. The script that the client wrote so they don't have to pay me to write it properly, with fewer words and an easier to understand structure. It's especially difficult when the person creating the explainer video (i.e. me) doesn't understand the product from reading the client's script, even after asking the client questions. You'd think that would send alarm bells ringing for the client that maybe their script just doesn't do the job. If you do happen to be writing an explainer script for your product or service then it pays to follow a tried and tested structure which is as follows: 1. Define the problem your product or service solves. 2. Introduce your product or service as 'the solution'. 3. Describe how your product or service solves the problem and why it's the best solution. 4. Summarize your product or service and what it does. 5. ...

Artem™ GoAnimator Artem™  is the August winner of my GoAnimate, Get Featured in TET's Blog contest . Artem™ has had his account with GoAnimate since April of 2013 and in that time has amassed 126 followers and published 11 animations. Artem™ chose to feature his contest entry, ~Evil Awakenings~, saying... "I chose this animation because it was a challenge that I beat. I was having a lot of trouble with this animation. It was a theme that I never used before and a short amount of time." This is the first time someone has chosen their winning video to feature so I thought I'd add in my comments as to why this animation was selected to win... "Attention to detail and great editing, along with a strong script set this apart from the rest. Use of audio to add background noise and to suggest actions occurring off screen was impressive. Then showing a fight scene by not actually showing a fight scene but by using creative editing to imply actions that are occurring w...

Balacafa GoAnimator  Balacafa is the July winner of my GoAnimate,  Get Featured in TET's Blog contest . Balacafa has had his account with GoAnimate since October of 2012 and in that time has amassed 627 followers and published 20 animations. Balacafa chose to feature his animation, Super Kent - THE ROBOT, saying... I chose this animation because I actually spent time getting the effects in exactly the right places instead of just putting them at the start of the scene, I made sure they were at exactly the right times. Super Kent is actually one of my own characters from my early days on GoAnimate. You can view my own three episodes at Super Kent , Super Kent Returns and Super Kent - Man of Steel . Watch Balacafa's animation below and then read about his inspiration and challenges in creating the video. Super Kent - THE ROBOT by balacafa on GoAnimate Inspiration... Well, when I was in the forums I stumbled across a forum by Gipsy and I was curious about what it...

Synfig Studio There is the Rolls Royce of digital animation tools that any professional animator would probably aspire to but if you're just starting out, animating for a hobby, or just not in any position to get the top level gear then I've put together a few options below to get you started. Many of the tools I've written about before so I'll provide links to those articles if you want more information. You'll also notice that your software studio can potentially consist of entirely free software. Hardware. I'm going to assume you already have a computer. One with real processing power is ideal but even most low budget laptops have enough power to get some pretty decent results. Beyond that you'll need either a graphics tablet or scanner to get your drawings into the digital realm. Bosto Tablet Graphics Tablet A graphics tablet is not absolutely essential but it will make your life a whole lot easier. You'll get more out of many animation programs whic...

TET Bitstrips Avatar. I recently discovered Bitstrips , a social comic creation, Facebook application that enables you to create gag cartoons and comic strips staring yourself and your Facebook friends - even if you can't draw. Whilst Bitstrips doesn't have much to do with video or animation the parallels with GoAnimate's animation studio - that everyone can use, even without drawing ability - is obvious. Bitstrips actually has more flexibility than GoAnimate when it comes to creating poses for characters. Almost any pose, expression and emotion is possible even though the characters are all 2D. It would be a dream come true if Bitstrips partnered with GoAnimate to turn their content into 'Bitanimations' as well as 'Bitstrips'. They pretty much have all the artwork. They just need the underlying animation application to support it. The Bitstrips Facebook application seems to only allow single panel, gag cartoons and provides a number of ready made jokes whic...

Cartoon Network released their first full trailer for the new CG animated series Beware the Batman and, although I'm a long time Batman fan - particularly animated and on film - it just didn't get me excited for the show. It's not that I think the trailer is bad or that the show looks like it's missed the mark on what makes Batman great it just that it's all CG animated and, for some reason, I find that disappointing. Which is really odd because this show is following in the footsteps of the Green Lantern CG animated series . Although I didn't watch much of Green Lantern, the episodes I happened to catch were really great, and I did like the design of the show. So much so that I have considered buying the series on Blu-ray or DVD - and I'm not that much of a Green Lantern fan. My problem is I can't get excited for CG animation anymore. Which is a shame because at one time CG animation was something I really wanted to do myself. Still do, in fact, but ba...