
07-29-2012, 07:44 PM
If you like animating, I suggest you find a better program to draw in. MS is fine, if you can put the frames together with a program that is actually made for making animations. Those animations look more like moving storyboards than true animations. I know that drawing long animations are a pain in the butt. I was an animation student a few years back and I had to experience everything.
Your little stop-motion (photo-video, as you call it) is very nice. Perhaps you should go on with that kind of animations?
Tips for animations:
Most animations are 24 fps (frames per second, this means there are 24 pictures to make 1 second of film.) For simple animations, you can use 12 fps.
The more frames, the more fluent your animation will become.
You can also cheat a little bit by drawing 12 frames and use them twice. Then you have 24 fps.
Work with "Keyframes". (These are the main positions of your object, person or scenery)
Say you have a ball bouncing. You start off with the ball on the floor (Keyframe 1) the next KF will be the ball in the air. The last KF will be the ball on the floor again. Now you have 3 main points of movement. It will look very silly if you put the frames together.
Now the job is to fill in the gaps to make it bounce fluently. You can do this by moving the ball up and down in each "in between frame". Or you can use the squash and stretch, making it look more flexible.
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