THE TROLL KING

[FeeblyWeebly]

THATS RIGHT, ITS DONE, BEHOLD YOUR KING.

http://youtu.be/n0KV_mywlbg

[Yosemite Sam]

Weebly,

I really like your sense of humor. You have that "I Don't Give A F@#!" attitude. Some of your responses in your YT videos comment section literally made me laugh out loud.

Your animation/presentation is getting better.

Here's what I have to add. I offer these things because I really want to see how far you can go with your work.

1. Keep working on the animation and artwork. Also, add more eye blinks/eye movement -- little things to keep the characters alive throughout.

2. Think about your key poses. EXPRESSION. Don't just have your characters casually moving... floating about with their body language. Define their poses, their attitude, their intent. Go through a character's dialogue and decide how they will express key lines through their positions and movements. Use the body to express the EMOTION a character is feeling in that moment.

3. Record clean audio. Get a mike like this for 60 bucks from Amazon : http://www.amazon.com/Blue-Microphones- ... B000EOPQ7E It will take the quality of your work to another level.

4. Pay attention to your audio layer in AS. As you zoom in and out of scenes the audio layer will shift to the outside, causing the audio to move from being dead center, to coming from the extreme left or right speaker.

5. And the most important thing... tighten things up, brother. Decide where your jokes are and get to them. If you can edit a five minute cartoon down to one minute, do it! Things will snap, crackle and pop a LOT better. And your audience will love you for it!

Best of luck.

Keep, keeping on!

[FeeblyWeebly]

Thanks for the response Yosam! all those things are actually exactly the stuff im weakest at, but trying to improve, I actually did buy a blue snowball for this animation, but i need to create a soundbooth or a place where im not hitting the static, i also need to learn to use ableton to edit it, audacity is what im using now, and it kinda stinks :/ and just like a writer, its hard to kill your baby, when you make something, editing stuff out is hard. hard to be objective, but im working on that. appreciate the feedback.

Yours Truely,
FeeblyWeebly / THE TROLL KING.

[Yosemite Sam]

Thanks for the response Yosam! all those things are actually exactly the stuff im weakest at, but trying to improve, I actually did buy a blue snowball for this animation, but i need to create a soundbooth or a place where im not hitting the static, i also need to learn to use ableton to edit it, audacity is what im using now, and it kinda stinks :/ and just like a writer, its hard to kill your baby, when you make something, editing stuff out is hard. hard to be objective, but im working on that. appreciate the feedback.

Yours Truely,
FeeblyWeebly / THE TROLL KING.

Cool. Yeah, try recording in a closet of clothes, or put some foam up on the walls. You can buy a roll of it at Walmart. Or hang up blankets, towels, etc. around your recording environment. I'm sure you already know all this.

I use Audacity and get pretty good audio. If you have any questions about the program shoot them my way.

I fully understand about 'killing your babies'. There was a time when it was very hard for me. But 15 years of screenwriting and working in film, and it just begins to happen. You become less impressed with your own work, every line you write, and become more committed to the overall point of what you're trying to express. When you can form that kind of objectivity/POV to your own work, things improve.

Sure, I still lose objectivity, because I'm working so close to the material 24/7, but with time you just get better at it.

The old axiom is true" "Less is more."