A Newbies first movie.

fiziwig · Post by **fiziwig** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 6:01 am

Well, the first part of my movie, anyway. So far I have opening titles and the first scene, with soundtrack score for the titles. I still need to record dialog and Foley, and compose some short music cues for certain spots in the script that call for them. The script reads out at 2:30 and with closing credits I'm shooting for a 3 minute film.

The animation was done in AS.
The soundtrack score was composed in Noteworthy and performed with the Garritan Personal Orchestra (A dynamite software synthesizer). I wrote the music to match the length of the title sequence. I EQ'd, mixed, and reverb'd the soundtrack recording in Reaper, and cut the pieces together in QuickTime Pro.

To watch, go to http://fiziwig.com/anim/index07.php and scroll all the way to the bottom.

Comments and suggestions appreciated. (I'm not crazy about the "Episode I" background color. Any suggestions?)

--gary

DK · Post by DK » Wed Jan 16, 2008 6:55 am

Can't see anything fiz? What format is it in?

D.K

fiziwig · Post by **fiziwig** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 7:00 am

It's QuickTime embedded mov. I tried it on a different computer (PC) and it worked fine. I do sometimes have a problem with my host being slow and QuickTime times out, but right now it seems to be fine from where I'm sitting.

What OS and browser? Do you have the QuickTime plug-in?

--gary

human · Post by **human** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 7:26 am

The pacing of the movement is good--the camera clips along a nice brisk speed. Nice pullback with the camera, too.

The walk cycles look good to me--good job on that. The second character bumping into the first was a nice touch.

Frankly, I don't like the drawings one bit, but I don't think you're interested in working on great drawings right now.

Regardless of the simplistic characters, your colors could use more discipline--(hint: less saturated, more harmonious).

The music is very nice. Very professional composition, and the MIDI instruments sound very natural.

All in all, you're like a child prodigy with this!

DK · Post by DK » Wed Jan 16, 2008 7:42 am

Ahhh....ok I see it now. Can't wait for part 2.

D.K

fiziwig · Post by **fiziwig** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 9:11 am

human wrote:The pacing of the movement is good--the camera clips along a nice brisk speed. Nice pullback with the camera, too.

The walk cycles look good to me--good job on that. The second character bumping into the first was a nice touch.

Frankly, I don't like the drawings one bit, but I don't think you're interested in working on great drawings right now.

Regardless of the simplistic characters, your colors could use more discipline--(hint: less saturated, more harmonious).

The music is very nice. Very professional composition, and the MIDI instruments sound very natural.

All in all, you're like a child prodigy with this!

Thanks for those comments.

I've refined the animation to have Sticky (the stick man) dancing in time to the music.

The drawings were designed to be simplistic, basically an egg shaped figure (Egg Man) and a slightly plump stick man (Sticky).

Color choices could obviously use some tweaking, but I am going for a very comic book look (think Bugs Bunny comics, not Spider Man) rather than a naturalistic color scheme.

Thanks. My desire to compose film music is the main reason I am taking up animation; to give me an outlet for my music. The instruments are NOT midi, but Garritan Personal Orchestra, a rather sophisticated sampling synthesizer. http://www.garritan.com/

"Child Prodigy?!?" Tell that to my adult grandchildren!

DK, glad you can see it now. For the next few days I'll be working on revising the script. Then I'll start "shooting" the rest of the movie. I'm aiming at 3 minutes.

--gary