[Exercise 1: You're the Director]

OK as promised I'm going to try to attach my finished animation of the "Your the Director" and animating the "POSE"

 

let me know what you think?

 

 

Jeetman

Pose.mov

[The Art of Animation:Master]

That's what I figured Leo but I wanted to make sure.

 

One more question, What is the max file size you can attach? I tried to attach my finished animation (4 meg) but it kinda got hung up so now I'm trying to shrink the file size the best I can while still trying to maintain as much of the integrity of the animation as I can.

 

Jeetman

[The Art of Animation:Master]

Rodney,

 

I'm starting to try for the certificates to hopefully be able to participate in the "TWO" movie.

 

I've already done a few of the execises before but I didn't do the "POSE" one. I did a version of it last night that's not exactly as the assignment was given. In other words I improvised...a lot!

 

I was talking to my brother this morning and he said that he thought that I'm not taking the right approach because if I can prove myself able to work on the "Two" movie, I'm giving the impression that I do my own thing and won't follow instructions (which is absolutely not the case).

 

I thought the exercises were designed to show your skill and understanding of the program so I felt the "POSE" exercise could be juiced up a bit.

 

I created an animation that came out really cool based on the "POSE" exercise. I'll post it as soon as I get home. My question is, IS this OK to do?

 

Jeetman

[Camera functionality]

Awesome suggestions!!!

 

Thanks all

 

Jeetman

[Exercise #6 - Random Thoughts]

i was trying to model stuff for about a year ( trying to avoid the timeline )

 

I think by your tone you've since changed your mind (at least I hope so).

 

Rules to remember: The timeline is my friend

 

I too avoided the timeline but after seeing Jeff Lew's CD, you really can't make really good animations without it.

 

The timeline allows you to completely control every part of your animation.

 

I use to have what I'd think is a common problem for beginners of starting a forward animation (animating straight forward without worrying about overall scene timing) with say animating the the arms and hands (the door is stuck comes to mind) for about 60 frames. Then on say the 60th frame, I wanted to add a leg movement. Once I added any extra movement, my animation would not be doing what I wanted anymore.

 

the legs were slowly moving at the same time my hand animation was playing out and it looked rediculious.

 

This was so frustrating and I actually quit using AM for quite a few months until the desire to animate hit me again and that's when I learned what I was doing wrong.

 

learning about the timeline features basically showed me what was happening and now I can do straight forward animating with no problem.

 

Jeetman

[Camera functionality]

I assume that you meant to say shutter rather than shudder. If the desire is to create what I think is typically called the iris effect where a circle of diminishing diameter slowly reduces the visible portion of the screen until it is all black, you can do that. I think all you would have to do is put a simple plane object with a hole in it and then animate the diameter of the hole for the fade effect.

 

 

I thought about this post yesterday. I was thinking like a still picture camera (duh). I know very little about cameras as you can see.

 

All I was looking for was a simple fade. Thanks Noewjook. That was my work around. Just thought there'd be a feature built in the software to do this. Oh well the effect looks awesome.

 

 

Fishman, the iris effect sounds pretty cool. I'll definitely experiment with that. How would you soften the the circumference of the iris? Seems to me that you'd have a solid edge.

 

Thanks for the help everyone,

Jeetman

[Camera functionality]

Hi all,

 

I'm looking at trying to do post editing completely in AM and create an animation showing that you can do post effects without having to spend big money for programs like after effects (I'm not a student so I'd have to pay about a grand for the professional version of after effects).

 

My question is, can you control the shudder of the camera to create fade effects? I've got a work around that works very cool if not but I'd think you could.

 

If so how? I'll tell you my work around after I get responses.

 

Jeetman

[AM Post editing]

Excellent!!! That makes so much sense now.

 

I especially like the idea Thumperness posted from Arkaos!

 

Thanks for the help . I'll post my animation as soon as I finish it.

 

Jeetman

[AM Post editing]

Hi everyone,

 

I'm still relatively new to AM so please forgive me if these sound like a stupid questions.

 

I've seen some incredible animated shorts posted at AM Films. I'm working on one myself ("The Door is Stuck" exercise). My question is, How do you create a final render with different camera angles?

 

I was told it can't be done in AM but people are doing it some how. I'm hoping you can do this completely in AM and not have to buy another software package.

 

Specifically,

 

Is there a way to see camera changes in the previewed animation before rendering?

If no, then why allow you to turn camera's on and off?

 

Basically I want to make my "Door is Stuck" short, using more than one camera but 1) I can't play a preview that shows in the view the animation switching from camera to camera to see how it plays out.

 

Is this possible?

 

If I can't do this, does this mean I have to render each camera separately then combine them? If so, can this be done in AM and how?

 

Last Question:

 

If AM can't do this what reasonably priced software (freeware would work for me ) do you recommend I buy/download to be able to do this?

 

Thanks,

Jeetman