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Steve White
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5/26/2016 7:45:04 AM
Looking for an Animator
I'm seriously looking for a good animator. I want to animate all of my songs so I can put them up on You Tube. If you know of anyone or you are into animation yourself, please contact me.
I did do one animation myself to my song It's Sunday but it was a lot of work and time and I was also learning on the fly. I think this is something a lot of you should look into. People these days love animation so it's a great time to do this.
Steve
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Two Silo Complex
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5/26/2016 8:46:53 AM
I don't do animation but I am looking into green screen effects and adding backgrounds into videos.
If you know a good cheap video editing program I would be interested to know what it is.
Two Silo Complex,
Ken
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Father Time
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5/26/2016 9:58:51 AM
I wrote a serial that I once hoped to do the same with, make a comic out of it, couldn't find anybody who had the time and the talent though, even though I have friends on facebook who are pro comic artists.
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Just Between Friends
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5/26/2016 10:46:24 AM
I'm not sure what an animator does on videos. I just search for and use animated gifs that fit the theme or I use images and add effects in the moviemaker package... but mostly I just write the lyrics on each frame, people like to read them as they listen. There are programs to sync them to the vocals.
On YT I just uploaded a new song/video (with lyrics) about my football team having a great season. I posted it on the relevant football forum and it got about 30 plays in the first hour... normally I get 3 plays in a year, so obviously the topic (and where you post it) helps a lot.
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Steve White
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5/26/2016 10:51:47 AM
---- Updated 5/26/2016 11:02:19 AM
I have tried before and I'll keep trying.
I'm looking for full animation.
Like this:
https://youtu.be/mp5DjnryCCU
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Steve White
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5/26/2016 11:03:38 AM
I tried to embed the video but got an error so you'll have to follow the link if you're interested. Sorry bout that.
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Paul groover
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5/26/2016 4:26:45 PM
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I have this program called messiah studio it is for 3d animation. Never used it for anything have learned a bit about it would give it a go.
http://www.projectmessiah.com/x6/index.html
https://youtu.be/i3rWghGSm4Y?list=PLr5605ZIdRVqvfh786X3KIzG3QZPzWiad
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LyinDan
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5/27/2016 12:24:39 AM
Lots of programs do this. There's a pretty steep learning curve, though. And it's time-consuming.
You can do some things yourself, though. Here's something that could work for some character face animations:
FaceRig
Fairly easy to get into.
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LyinDan
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5/27/2016 12:37:57 AM
Ken, this:
Davinci Resolve
There's a free version. Check the license, though, depending on what you want to do.
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Two Silo Complex
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5/27/2016 10:33:19 AM
Thank you LyinDan,
I don't know anything about video but I have and HD video recorder so I'd like to learn how to make interesting videos.
Two Silo Complex,
Ken
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LyinDan
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5/27/2016 5:33:36 PM
Well, Davinci Resolve is a very high tier product. You can see that from the prices they charge for the non-free product. It can do whatever you want.
Check what the free product is licensed for, though, if you're intending commercial product.
There are lots of free video editing products out there, other than that.
FT, what are you using? Whatever it is, clearly results in a pro video product.
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Steve White
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5/28/2016 6:20:56 AM
Well
I did find a lot of great animators. Problem is they want like 120.00 an hour!
Still looking though. Not gonna give up yet. :)
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LyinDan
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5/28/2016 4:06:52 PM
Seriously...
You'd have to find a newbie. That's not necessarily bad, there are lots of peeps determined to be animators now. Find somebody who wants to practice his chops. Otherwise, as you've found, people want the money to do this. It really is time consuming, that's the main thing. I've done some of this. And no, I don't have the time to spare. Sorry, really. I can't even keep up with my own needs.
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Steve White
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5/28/2016 4:14:00 PM
I hear ya Dan
I have a post now for any level and it's only been up for a few days. I'll take a newbie as long as it looks better than what I can do. I know the time it takes, I did one awhile ago and it was a bitch man!
I have a link somewhere in this thread with the you tube post of what I did.
Really if I had the total knowledge (and it may just come down to me learning from the ground up) I'd do it all myself.
Anyhow, I'm not ready for that jump yet.
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LyinDan
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5/28/2016 4:26:53 PM
Hey, look at the facerig thing. You might could revise and get something going from that.
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Steve White
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5/28/2016 7:08:23 PM
I just checked that FaceRig out Dan.
Looks pretty good but I'll have to do the reading on it first. Maybe tomorrow. Our central air fan motor seized up so I won't have cool till Monday or Tuesday. Reading distracts me from the heat.
Thanks for the tip, I may give it a shot.
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Steve White
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5/31/2016 4:12:09 PM
Cool!
I have an animator working for me! I'm pretty happy about it too. He's raring to go!
I took Dan's advice and got a just out of school dude.
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Two Silo Complex
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6/1/2016 10:04:22 AM
Cool Steve I will like to see the animation when its done please post a link.
I put out a couple you tube videos with back drops with free VRC editor I got online the audio quality on them not great but I'm in the learning stages experimenting with video.
Two Silo Complex,
Ken
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Steve White
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6/1/2016 12:34:21 PM
Don't worry Ken, I'll definitely post when the song is done.
I gave up on the video thing because you need a lot of good equipment and software to make a good video. Unless you're playing live in front of the camera.
Steve
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Two Silo Complex
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6/1/2016 1:08:17 PM
Not really Steve,
I have very basic HD video camera its pretty old and Ipod touch that I did video with.
The way I did "hold on" video was record the song then took video with me playing along to pre-recording. Then synch the audio with the video not hard since I played with it in real time.
"american made" I did live.
Take a peak at them the video quality not bad and I used a free video software and only what I have I did not buy anything to make my videos.
Two Silo Complex,
Ken
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Steve White
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6/1/2016 3:09:19 PM
I just checked them out Ken.
I hate to even say this but IMO? They don't hold my interest. That's one of the big reasons I'm going for animation. One other thing is your vocal is very hard to hear. I don't know if you did that on purpose or not but vocals again IMO should pretty much stand out in the song.
I hope you don't take this badly and get mad at me and if you just would prefer that this not be up, let me know and I'll delete the post.
Steve
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Two Silo Complex
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6/1/2016 3:17:09 PM
I know the audio quality not that great I am experimenting with video so I did these as rough productions to see how different video effects turned out.
I appreciate your honest feedback. I don't mind your comments or negative comments in general if they are constructive and I can learn from them.
I appreciate your opinion.
Two Silo Complex,
Ken
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