Ok ... so I'm dyslexic.
However, today is my birthday. July 19th. But I guess if you are reading this after the 19th ... then it isn't my birthday. I did have an Aunt ... Auntie Donna ... and she believed in stretching out the natal day out as long as possible. According to her if you could get them to just run into the next one that would be the best of all possibilities. My personal best is three months ... three parties ... three cakes.
I don't think there will be three cakes this year ... but I know my little Yoko will spoil me royal. This year as a present for me I did my very first Toon Boom animation. A personal goal ... and tho I made a compromise or two ... I view as a win because it got completed. Please view it and enjoy. I will put a few thoughts in it's construction afterwards so you can read about if you are such a mind.
Please ... if you would be so kind ... as a birthday gift to me ... repost this on your time line.
Thanks!!!
Like I said, this is my very first success using Toon Boom. The problem besides the initial learning curve of the program and getting a feel for the tools, is the frustrating fact that one can not export your animation in a movie file format ... even though it is offered. One has to make the animation into an image sequence and then place it into another video editing program. If any of you intelligent individuals out there have a clue how to import the pictures from the image sequence, in order, to a time line please give me a clue.
In total, I used 7 different programs to make this cartoon. That's almost one program per second. Toon Boom for the character and the animation. (I need to develop a steadier hand with the brush. I was, however, pleasantly surprised at the auto lip sync process. You draw eight different mouths and the computer reads the audio track and voila ... it's synced up.) Sketchbook Pro and Photoshop for the balloons. Audacity and Soundbooth for the audio. The scanner was used to import the original character sketch from my sketch book. And it was all put together in Hit Film.
The piece was suppose to be a 4 day project but some how my time dwindled down to one. I had a few false starts and when push came to shove ... I had to make a couple compromises. The first was I wanted to do some more body movement. The second was that the original design had floppy ears. Those would of called for full animation which became apparent of a lack of time. I also would of liked to of split the piece in two and done another set of mouths for the later sequence.
Still ... for my first real attempt at Toon Boom ... this is ... satisfactory. More to come I promise.
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