new music video from sebwproductions (rough cut)

swrecordings · Post by **swrecordings** » Sat Oct 31, 2009 8:26 pm

here it is

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofgz4NoyoL0

the song is "don't wnna give up" by johnwatsonmusic. its the first song on his debut album and i wanted to help him out by making an animation.

PLEASE tell me what you think. he seemed to like it.

swrecordings

edit: i think i may make some changes to this and make it better, so for now this is the first cut.

jahnocli · Post by **jahnocli** » Sat Oct 31, 2009 8:28 pm

Gave me an error.

swrecordings · Post by **swrecordings** » Sat Oct 31, 2009 8:46 pm

it works for me. idk whats up. you can find it by searching "johnwatsonmusic" its the "don't wanna give up" animation

jahnocli · Post by **jahnocli** » Sat Oct 31, 2009 9:31 pm

Now it works...computers, eh?

I have a lot of negative (but hopefully constructive) things to say. Are you sure you want to hear them?

swrecordings · Post by **swrecordings** » Sat Oct 31, 2009 10:42 pm

i know its not that great but i did take me 3 weeks because of my computer (and the refrain took a week just to render)

i want to hear advice but please don't be to harsh i just started in april and i am really just experimenting with.

PLEASE don't be too harsh

jahnocli · Post by **jahnocli** » Sun Nov 01, 2009 2:12 pm

You sound kinda fragile. I'll keep my views to myself...

Mikdog · Post by **Mikdog** » Sun Nov 01, 2009 4:38 pm

-removed-

uh. Good job.

swrecordings · Post by **swrecordings** » Mon Nov 02, 2009 3:51 am

a while back i did an animation to the song "revolution 9" by the Beatles. for those of you who don't know, the song makes about as much sense as president obama announcing he would like to become a ballerina (if that ever happened).

i think that i am still not out of that phase of animation were i have the urge to randomly edit a whole bunch of clips together. and my most recent music vid shows that.

meltedtoons · Post by **meltedtoons** » Mon Nov 16, 2009 6:01 am

I am not a really great animator. But by looking at your video I guess you've been using the program for only 3 or 4 months??? Don't worry Anime Studio is a hard program to use.... Keep up the work...

PS. If you want sebwproductions to be in a good image at YouTube, I suggest, make small animation with Anime Studio for one year then start uploading...

hope that didn't sound too harsh.... I tried to keep it constructive as possible.

lumarama · Post by **lumarama** » Mon Nov 16, 2009 11:17 pm

You need to educate yourself in the following areas (sorry, but almost in everything, but I would say that everyone should always go forward):

- design basics (colors - not every color combination looks good, don't pickup colors randomly)
- character design (don't use standard characters for final work - this isn't professional; but you can use it for practice if you like)
- animation basics (there are very few cases when you need slow motions in your animations - usually only to show some dramatic scenes, don't move your character parts until shape distortion becomes ugly...)
- story - this is actually the most complex part - you need some story or idea even for music video,

there are a lot of people out there who mastered all these areas above - but good original story/idea - is very rare thing today

good luck!

lumarama · Post by **lumarama** » Mon Nov 16, 2009 11:40 pm

jahnocli wrote:You sound kinda fragile. I'll keep my views to myself...

superb joke

swrecordings · Post by **swrecordings** » Tue Nov 17, 2009 12:16 am

thanks for your help, i started using anime studio 5 in april and updated to 6 in june. however i only recently started becoming serious about animation. for future music videos i am working more with plot and becoming less "abstract".

the last music video i made with anime studio 5 was "revolution 9" by the beatles (more john lennon) that song (if you can call it a song it's more like noise) is very abstract and i have not fully recovered from the effect of that "project"

anyway i am on my 3rd draft of a music video to daveday's cover of "love story" by taylor swift. i have created several figures for it and using a lot more original metrical.