developing the FCP help avatar

I have decided to use the shape tweening to animated the photos – but will insert an number of stills at various points in the timeline to slow down the movement, inserting the explainations and illustrations at the relevent points.

I have animated at 0ne frame a second but by inserting more un tweened frames and making the cartoon more detailed I think the flow will be improved. In the making of scanner darkly the rotoscoping artists discussed the need for a style sheet for all the teams to work by. I wil therefore break down the still into important elements and ensure that those are consistently mapped.

more emails for storyworld

Hi Ira,

you need a myspace site. just sign up its easy! and such fun! You’ll meet great people and be able to chat with them!

must dash,

su

Susan tries to drag her sister into the online world

Hi Ira,

you need a myspace site.  just sign up its easy!  and such fun!  You’ll meet great people and be able to chat with them!

must dash,

su

Video of test

tweened stills and audio

success at shape tweening

More thoughts over night about streamlining the animation process. I have to get the animation to work without the use of symbols. I have managed to get it working now by tweening the drawings as shapes.

I am thinking of shooting the sequences as 10 second rants at 25 fps. Editing them in FCP. Then exporting as image sequences. I will then select particular frames and bring them into flash. I will then re sync them in flash and shape tween the intermediate frames. It might work…

I need to borrow a Wacom tablet I think!

Here’s this mornings test tween.

getting into web 2.0

I have been on a frenzy of exploration of new ‘web 2.0’ discovery. I am experimenting with google apps – the video and picture uploaders.

New Album 05/05/2007 07:47

this should be a test picture – taken by a friend with a pin hole camera. OK just checked and it seems to have worked OK. The videos have not yet worked so well. The photo uploaders neat though.

development of personal project

I have finally managed to produce 10 simple pieces of advice for the use of final cut pro – it includes some pointers on editing and content too. I have a list of lssues that I know are common amougst novice users and I have aimed the advice at these people.

The question is now how best to animated this. Martin has suggested that I base the avatar on myself. Well I might not be photogenic but I am easy to photofraph! I had thought of using a mac book pro with photo booth. But now I suspect that I don’t need to get so complicated.

I plan to take a number of stills, bring them into flash and over draw them very quickly to produce outline faces. I will then motion or shape tween between these.
I have experimented with this tonight but my flash skills are poor and I haven’t managed to get the tweens to work.