Gerry

Happy birthday David!

Totally great news and well deserved! If anyone here hasn't seen this piece can you post a link, Gene?

I think it's time to move this thread to "Off Topic"!

Good one!

Here's a comment I like from a BBC news article on Comic Sans: "It does have a use: rather like Dan Brown books or baseball hats with beercans attached, it marks the user out as someone to be avoided." http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11582548 Long story short: I may opt for another font for my reel.

Anything but Comic Sans! Do a Google search on Comic Sans and see what comes up. Nothing at all wrong with Arial or Helvetica, the all-purpose, do-anything, always-looks-good fonts.

Can you post a screen shot or one of your renders? If you post both it may be easier to see the problem.

Kinko's does a great job with print jobs like this.

I need to pull out the Williams book again, I got it and looked it over but never studied it closely.

Thanks for comments, guys. As you prolly noticed by now I took the link down, as I've gotten the feedback I *wanted* (I think), that it NEEDS WORK. Rodney, as for Comic Sans, it is widely reviled (and rightly so) for being an unattractive, overused font. There are whole websites devoted to hatred for it, which I wholeheartedly support. In addition to its clumsy, generic design, I strongly object to the lack of a non-serif capital I, which makes it all but useless as a comic book font.

Well I admit in looking over the credits that Julius Fucik's name gave me pause for a moment. Had to zoom in to be sure.

Hey Shelton, I replied to your PM/email. Let me know if you got it.

Robert, that was a really excellent analysis, I've downloaded the .prj and I'll look at it tonight. Thanks.

Mouseman, that's great input. Thanks for giving it that much thought. Gene, whatever works for ya!

Thanks Spleen! dude, that music video you've got up over at makeastar.com KICKS! I'm extremely jealous of your ability to crank out whole projects at the pace you do.

I agree. i can see it better after a few days of looking at it and the comments I've been getting.

But with Comic Sans, right? That seems to be the consensus.

Eras Bold? Nope. Keep trying.

Comic Sans!! THAT'S what was lacking! Thanks for the tip! Actually I've already ditched the bouncing credits, that was the first comment I got yesterday. So the hard part's done. Holmes, I've only scratched the surface, just threw this together yesterday morning and I feel like I posted it prematurely, but I guess that's the best way to improve it. I posted a link on CGTalk and got 62 views and NO comments, which is valuable in itself. I'm seriously thinking (again!) about Animation Mentor...it's a chunk of change but I really need to improve in the basics. I've also been extremely lazy about using squash and stretch, I guess because I'm afraid I'll overuse it and won't be able to tell. But I really need to get more cartoony and exaggerated with my animation in general.

Yep I need to go in and rework some of these. I feel like I put in some pieces that weren't really finished. I'm also going to reconsider some of the clips that I've included and excluded.

1) Mainly I wanted to have a reel of some character work. There is a place nearby that has an opening for an animator and it would be mostly character work I think. but seeing the job listing was just a motivation to put some kind of reel together. 2) Sadly, yeppers.

I heard there was free candy here! Seriously this is some nice work, and somehow this is the first time I'm seeing this thread. Nice progress!

EDIT: Link deleted.

Don't you have to turn those arrows on in Settings or Options somewhere? Look in Options>Global and check Show Property Triangle, see if that does it. EDIT: btw great tutorial! More please!

the commercial thing would be fun if we did it like a Firesign Theatre bit where we change channels in the middle of a word or sentence, just a series of non-sequiturs. Silly products, "dont try this at home", etc. Grab audio from a real commercial and make the visuals about something else. "An unattached Grid 5 stand-up reheater with smoked window! A complete broken set of color bars for Mrs. P's new home! And NOW, 300 full pounds of Chef Antoine's Southern Fried Glimps, toasted to gold perfection, cubed, reheated and returned to water before you're ready, Mrs. P!" Oops, ahem sorry about that. Minor attack of brain-channel surfing.