David Lynch's Dumbland
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Possibly GC but I don't care. Just rudely using it as an excuse to get some help from any animator type peeps knocking about. I'm looking to do an animation.
Crude figures on a white background (like dumbland) nothing too flashy. Would it be insane to draw frames in photoshop and then edit them together as stills in iMovie or something?
Has anyone got any helpful tips or links to useful tutorial vids or anything? Would be greatly appreciated.
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presferatu, Tue 14 Aug 2012, 14:17,
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I am a huge fan of DUMBLAND it's very funny, it's also Lynch's commentary on middle America.
Also I suppose you could make a series of gifs then add them together with sound..?
FUCKING HEELER COPTERS, FUCKING MOTHERFUCKERS
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(|D[ekionplexis B3ta.com: fictional child porn is OK, Tue 14 Aug 2012, 14:26,
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Yeah, it's great init. I love his voice acting.
I know nothing about Gifs. I've got the audio already, I've been sat on it for ages waiting for a friend to do it but he hasn't so I'm gonna have a stab at it.
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presferatu, Tue 14 Aug 2012, 14:34,
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GIFs are peasy, just make your frames in whatever program you use then add them together.
I use GIF Movie Gear it's a basic program that can do all sorts, if you want it, lemme know.
Since you already have your audio track, maybe break it up into small pieces then animate to those pieces.
I just realised you're using a Mac, not sure if GifMovieGear will work on that.
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(|D[ekionplexis B3ta.com: fictional child porn is OK, Tue 14 Aug 2012, 14:44,
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Cheers man.
If I don't get on with Flash I'll do some research and see if there's a mac equivalent of said software.
I'll probably be on here in a couple of weeks looking to pay someone for their animation skillz. Ha ha!
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presferatu, Tue 14 Aug 2012, 14:54,
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it's very time consuming, you should give it a go
especially if you're doing stickman stuff, well worth a try
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(|D[ekionplexis B3ta.com: fictional child porn is OK, Tue 14 Aug 2012, 15:00,
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Yeah, I'm really excited about it now.
I might see if I can go home early from work.
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presferatu, Tue 14 Aug 2012, 15:15,
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just take a shit on the floor and tell them OFF TO ANIMATE, MOTHERFUCKERS!
then as you exit the building scream FUCKING HEELERCOPTERS!!
good stuff
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(|D[ekionplexis B3ta.com: fictional child porn is OK, Tue 14 Aug 2012, 15:22,
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Hahahahaha!
That's what I do at half 5 everyday anyway. We do get a lot of helicopters round my way though.
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presferatu, Tue 14 Aug 2012, 15:25,
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as a flash bod
I would say use flash - may take a bit of getting used to but it can be pretty damn powerful for animationy type things
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wideeye slightly pickled, Tue 14 Aug 2012, 14:37,
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Yeah? Get stuck into Flash you say?
I do have it but it baffled me the first time. I'll give it another go.
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presferatu, Tue 14 Aug 2012, 14:44,
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it's worth it - and a lot of the techniques are useful across animation as a whole. my advice would be: start with a very simple achievable goal for the first test, then work up from there. Plenty of tutes out there as well.
edit: ps, I'm not an animator but a programmer who has done some animation n' artwork n' shit... just FYI
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wideeye slightly pickled, Tue 14 Aug 2012, 15:02,
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Have a look at Synfig
Decent freebie 2D animation jobbie. Nothing flash but it will handle the bare essentials which you describe
www.synfig.org/cms/
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simbosan is too tired, Tue 14 Aug 2012, 15:00,
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Oh cool! I'll definitely check this out.
Thanks very much.
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presferatu, Tue 14 Aug 2012, 15:16,
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