Plain Sight - a movie done with SU!
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I just completed my first animated movie -- a 5 minute animated -- and I have at least 5 more planned. This is done primarily with SU ... with some help from Antics and Poser (which I don't like, but they work well with SU), also
Photoshop and Corel VideoStudio. #2 is already in the works! -- JoelPlain Sight on http://www.TreasureInside.net
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A simple but important message. I liked the video a lot, thanks for taking the time to make it. I'll be showing this to my kids tomorrow.
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Joe,
Where did you get the CONTENT for Antics?
I have been using ANTICS V5 fora little while - with little success.
Can you provide any links for Emotion or Animation sequences ?
This would be great help to us other SketchUp Users!!!Nice Videos my friend.
Inspiring to see great work!!!
-Andrew -
I posted this message many months ago. Since then I've been working a lot on this series of movies and I have 3 completed. The 4th will be finished in a week or two. They are mostly created with SketchUp. I also use a video editor and overlay drawings onto the SU backgrounds (Corel VideoStudio and Photoshop). All these movies are at TreasureInside.net
All moving characters are done with drawings, with frames about 1 or 2 per second. This gives it a rough look and a very unique style in our world of hi-tech 3d animation. Animation nowadays is often 25 or 30 fps with a full range of colors and details.
I hated Antics and stopped using it (uninstalled it!) as soon as I was finished with that first movie, Plain Sight. Content is very hard to work with. Motion is difficult to control. Camera and timeline options are not at all intuitive. I tried other animation software and had big difficulties with all of them. (Of course, someone else may be very successful with a system that I could not learn.)
I ended up going back to SU, which I know well and use a lot for my work. The only good thing about Antics (for me) was that I could create elaborate sets and props with SU and then import them into Antics. You can see this in Plain Sight. I created the sets and props for my other movies with SU, just the same. SU has excellent camera animation control. I only had to find a way to animate things on camera. I do this with the overlayed drawings. (And, as you can see, I'm no great artist. I end up with a funky childish doodle that makes a great style.)
Joel
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