Jeff B

One other quicky How can I build a back ground scenry from scratch and use this in a short film. I'm still not that good at modeling yet lol... Cheers

Well thanks to you all for your help, I will go and try it out many thanks again Jeff

Hi Steve Many thanks for a fast reply, Sorry to be a pain but I am still quite new to this, how will the video play ie can i just go ahead and animate on top of this video. Cheers

Hi all sorry to be a pain for prob a very easy answer but i'm not that good yet. Can someone tell me how to use video footage from say window movie maker on Vista and use it as a back drop for my sort aniamtion. I want to add an animation in the film ie. like the film Rogger Rabbit. I have no idea how to make a scenary or back drop let alone use video footage. Many Thanks for any and all help. Cheers Jeff

Thank you to everyone who has commented, I need all the help I can get lol Thanks again Jeff

Hi Michael Thanks for your kind comments I am very new to all this and I'm loving every minute.

As for the size of the video file...you should be able to get that down to a few MB using compression. Hope that helps. I'm having trouble uploading my fill i Have compressed the fill but it still will not upload to this forum.

Whoo thats is a long time for a short film, I never realized that this animation lark could take so long lol.. Thank you for everyone's help Cheers Jeff Thanks for the advise on getting my film to upload Please Visit My Website

--> QUOTE(Jeff B @ Dec 1 2008, 12:35 PM) 287969[/snapback] Hi sorry to ask probably a silly question. But I have just finished a short film that is about 1minute long and it took 22hours to render is this normal or could it have anything to do with that fact I used an extra light and so created two lots of shadows. I'm using a MacBook with AM v15. Any help or advise will be great thanks. Sorry this film is more then 100mb so cant upload it but you can see it on my website. www.jbanitamtions.webeden.co.uk thanks.

Hi sorry to ask probably a silly question. But I have just finished a short film that is about 1minute long and it took 22hours to render is this normal or could it have anything to do with that fact I used an extra light and so created two lots of shadows. I'm using a MacBook with AM v15. Any help or advise will be great thanks.

Thank you all so much guys you have all been great help. Cheers Jeff

Again Thank you to all for your help I got it working using one camera Thanks again Jeff

Hi All Thank you all so much I will have to look into the NLE editer. How do i get into that can anyone tell me. Thanks again Jeff

Hi all Sorry, very newbie question here. I am trying to make a short film with two different camera shots, but I'm having trouble. Can anyone tell me how to get two cameras to work and how to render them at different points of the film. I would like to have the first camera slowly zoom in one my actor then change to the next camera that is in a different place and continue the shot. Then may be go back to the first camera again. Hope this all makes scene to someone. Thanks for any help from anyone, if you could be as simple as passable because I'm not that up on tect talk. Thanks again Jeff

Hi all Im Jeff, I live in London UK, I've just downloaded A:M on my MacBook and having fun looking around. I'm very new to all this and I have no experience at all in animation. So this is really hard to get my head around but I'm getting there, lol I would love to know if there is anyone in the UK (London) that could show me how to do things as i find it a bit hard to use the downloaded manual and video tutorials and then try to remember what to do when i open the A:M program. Anyway I'm trying and my results are ok so far and I'm having fun. Cheers Jeff