Compdoctor opened this issue on Oct 04, 2004 ยท 31 posts
4dogday posted Tue, 05 October 2004 at 12:40 AM
I don't know where you want to start, and I really haven't paid much attention on Tuts. on making a movie. I have made a short movie 8 minutes long, along with some short skits. I did the script, the animation, the editing, and the voices with some special effects in the voice, and O yes unless you are doing a silent movie you would be wise to get Mimic at DAZ. Then you need backgound music, and sound effects, Backgrounds of somekind. either made with things you can utlize with in Poser or Some background shots, or if you have a landscape program Like Vue, or Bryce, then you can make most any kind of backgroud. Last but by no means least, an Editing Program. I have Adobie Preimere, there are other edititing programs that can do a good enough job, depending on what you are wanting to do. Since you left the whole playing field open, 1st write a script with all your charatures, give them their own personality traits. use story boards. I don't know how far you want to go with this, but when you are ready to start animating. Don't start anti-aliasing untill you made the complete move and test the flow. ( A major problem you won't like is it take about an hour for about 10 second when you Alias the movie. Mostly depends on how sophistacated your charatures are, and the number of Items you have in the scene. the more the slower) Another Very important thing you need to do is Organize each Scene. (I don't know how much expirece you have, but a scene is not a guy running 90 steps then your into the next scene) What I do is have a folder for each scene. I lable them Scene 1, in Scene 1s folder I save Audio files, which can be music, sound effects, and each charitures voice. I then have the animation itself you can number it as simple as you like, 1, 2, 3, as long as you know your system. I also keep the preliminry animation and edit the whole movie. Why? because if you don't have good movement in a scene it will look like crap. I know I've had to edit some of my crap! So Save Those files because you never know when you might want to change the animation a little, then you would have to redo the voice again. You can get some free special effect stuff on the internet. if you need some sound effects try, http://www.grsites.com/sounds There are others also or you can by them. I make a lot of my own. Walking down an alley on cobble stone. You find something that sounds like walking in an alley by expiermenting with different things in the house. I can't rember what I used off hand, but when I applied it, and added a little reverb. It sounded just right. Well, this is what your up against. There is more, but this will get you at least moving in the right direction. Now I hope you aren't going to say. How do you make a guy walk. that's a long way from a movie! That is a different question which you can find in your Poser Book.