I thought I would take some time to learn animation and this is what I came up with. This is a little short of a bunny doing his thing. It took all day long and still not quite right but I was exhausted to go any further.
A while back I had searched for alternative editing programs and found Sqirlz Morph. It had been sitting in my computer downloads for sometime as I had been busy with other things and quite frankly, wasn't ready to learn any new technical material.
Yesterday, while my daughter Jaime was at a birthday party, I opened up the program and gave it a go. I like the hands on and dive in approach rather than read tutorials. That's probably why it took me all day.
I used two illustrations that were almost identical. Then I picked control points in each of the illustrations. It was difficult at first to find the relationship between each illustration and their corresponding control points but with a little maneuvering I began to see it. Now it was starting to become more like play.
After creating and saving one file as an animated gif, I wanted to be able to do more with just one file so I opened up Windows Movie Maker to see what more fun I could have. I began creating more animated files of the same bunny using different control points in each to try and capture a different animation. There is one frame of the bunny's ear moving and for the life of me I can't remember how I did it-I really liked it. I made about 5 frames and placed them alternately in the movie strip. To spice it up a bit I located some music file on the computer, Pink's Raise Your Glass , I like the beat of the music-it's catchy. I imported the music file to the movie strip. Lastly, to tie it all together, I added a title and credit frame. Ouila! A movie clip was born.
I 'm not sure if this is something I would do everyday-I don't think I will become the next Steven Spielberg . I do have a new appreciation for how movies are made. I take my hat off and raise my glass in giving a big Thank you for all those who create movies for the rest of us to enjoy.
Maybe I'll go back and pull out the drawing tablet that's been covered up for months now.
A while back I had searched for alternative editing programs and found Sqirlz Morph. It had been sitting in my computer downloads for sometime as I had been busy with other things and quite frankly, wasn't ready to learn any new technical material.
Yesterday, while my daughter Jaime was at a birthday party, I opened up the program and gave it a go. I like the hands on and dive in approach rather than read tutorials. That's probably why it took me all day.
I used two illustrations that were almost identical. Then I picked control points in each of the illustrations. It was difficult at first to find the relationship between each illustration and their corresponding control points but with a little maneuvering I began to see it. Now it was starting to become more like play.
After creating and saving one file as an animated gif, I wanted to be able to do more with just one file so I opened up Windows Movie Maker to see what more fun I could have. I began creating more animated files of the same bunny using different control points in each to try and capture a different animation. There is one frame of the bunny's ear moving and for the life of me I can't remember how I did it-I really liked it. I made about 5 frames and placed them alternately in the movie strip. To spice it up a bit I located some music file on the computer, Pink's Raise Your Glass , I like the beat of the music-it's catchy. I imported the music file to the movie strip. Lastly, to tie it all together, I added a title and credit frame. Ouila! A movie clip was born.
I 'm not sure if this is something I would do everyday-I don't think I will become the next Steven Spielberg . I do have a new appreciation for how movies are made. I take my hat off and raise my glass in giving a big Thank you for all those who create movies for the rest of us to enjoy.
Maybe I'll go back and pull out the drawing tablet that's been covered up for months now.
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