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AJ Velez

You need to make some more camera angles in your animating, show the two characters talking in the same screen at times.

I agree. It's a cool use of the sketch designer, but the constant cuts back and forth gets a little monotonous. A few scenes with both of them together would have been great. I like it though.

Thank you both very much for the feedback, I guarantee you will see some camera angles and both characters in the same scene at the same time next week. I will post a link here when it's ready! AJ Velez

You should also start with an establishing shot, usually showing where the people are, so if it is two people standing in a street the animation would start with a shot of the street and then go into the action. Most films have establishing shots for certain scenes.

You're right! Thank you again, I have the shot in mind already. This is what I am thinking, an ariel shot of the two models that slowly zooms in. There will be a prop in this scene, so the models will be posed in life like stances around the prop. There will be a little movement of the models so it looks like they are interacting with the prop and each other, like a hand wave or something simple. I'm thinking about 5-8 seconds should establish the setting. I wrote out the script last night so I will begin making the wav and text files tonite! AJ Velez

Hello, how are you? I have posted a new animated cartoon, The Sketch Boys in "San Frisco" by AJ Velez. You can check it out here: Windows (9 m) http://www.acidplanet.com/artist.asp?videos=321632&T=6595 Mac (35 m, sorry!) http://www.foreordained.org/mov/sanfrisco.mov First I want to thank everyone who made suggestions about my last cartoon "Ice Cream" Windows http://www.acidplanet.com/artist.asp?PID=456912&T=5603. Mac http://www.foreordained.org/mov/icecream2.mov How I Did It. I started out by writing a funny script between the two "Sketch Boys" characters. When I was done I put the cordless headmicrophone on so I could move around while I was recording and really get into the part. I recorded the vocal bits into Sony Acid Pro 5 and exported each one as a seperate .WAV file. Then I listened to each .WAV file to see what I really said and I transcribed that with the help of the script into corresponding .TXT files, one for each .WAV. The reason I did this is because DAZ3d Mimic 3 only accepts .WAV files and it uses the .TXT files for additional accuracy. I imported each .WAV and .TXT set and applied them to a model face. I tweaked the facial parameters in DAZ3d Mimic 3 to get some funny expressions, then saved the file and exported a .PZ2 file. This is the file that Curious Labs' Poser 4 Pro Pack uses to create the animation. I imported each .PZ2 file and applied it to a model, then I made some cool camera angles and motion. I used the Curious Labs' Poser 4 Pro Pack sketch designer with the colored pencil setting. I brought the background density to 0 as well as the outline. The I exported each file as an .AVI file to a folder. In Adobe Premiere Pro I imported the entire folder and also some sound effects from Sony Screenblast and Sony 1,001 Sound Effects CD, like the car door and the engine running. I mixed the sound and exported from Adobe Premiere Pro as .WMV, .MOV, DVD MP2, etc. I also used Adobe Photoshop 7 to create the layers for the opening splash screen and Adobe After Effects 6 to create the motion graphics. I encourage you to make suggestions as to what you would like to see in the future! AJ Velez

I watched the san francisco animation, it is a lot better than the ice cream one. The start of the animation has a lot of camera movement, there shouldn`t be so much and it is a bit erratic, I know that the keyframing can be difficult using poser but less movement of the camera would be better, a simple pan into the car might have worked better. The later scenes with the car to show the passage of time would be better with the characters in the car, you could show them looking out the window or adjusting the mirror etc. Some background objects would be good, too even if it is just a simple roadway object.