Bricks in Motion
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I think that the dorm might be a bit too small, you might find it difficult when you come to animate. Try rebuilding the set at different proportions and testing each set size until you feel comftable animating in it.
The basement set looks really good, its big and looks easy to animate in.
Last edited by Joe Sitch (December 29, 2009 (05:25am))
I think that the dorm might be a bit too small, you might find it difficult when you come to animate. Try rebuilding the set at different proportions and testing each set size until you feel comftable animating in it.
I see the point you're making, but I disagree. Even though a smaller set might be harder to animate with, it might be more suitable for the film. Sometimes one has to sacrifice some of one's animating ease for aesthetic reasons. 
Nice Reply!
As it turns out, it's not easy to share audio projects with Audacity over Dropbox. I was planning on doing all my audio stuff last night, so I could start animating this morning, but Audacity wouldn't open up my project file. After a while of looking online, I realized that I was using an older version of Audacity than what I used to record with. I downloaded the exact same version I used on my other computer (1.3.9 Beta) and it opened up perfectly. I hope to actually start animating tonight. What do you guys use to make the voices line up with the animation?
Because I couldn't get Audacity to work last night, I took a few more pictures to test how hard the ping pong game would be to animate. It wasn't too hard, but the picture below took at least 15 minutes to do in Gimp, most of that spent on the motion blur. It should be much quicker if I don't use the blur.
Edit: @Brickcellent: My YouTube doesn't have much on it right now. I'll start sharing links to it once this movie is up.
Last edited by bluejeansummer (December 29, 2009 (03:11pm))
I think that you should add the motion blur to the ping-pong ball, it makes the scene look overall much more realistic
The problem with the motion blur is that I'm making this for a school project (it's worth over 50% of my Film Lit. grade) and it's due when I get back Jan. 4. I just don't have enough time to do the blur. You have to manually erase around the entire ball, not just the supporting stack.
Not sure how you're creating the ping-pong ball, but would it be possible to create the moving "ball" as a separate video, and add a motion blur effect to that within your video editor? Love all the added junk, by the way.
Fair enough
@Noodle: I'm just holding the ball up with some bricks underneath and erasing them out in Gimp. Standard "flying pickle" stuff. I think your suggestion would just add complexity without much benefit in this case.
Edit: For those who missed the "flying pickle" reference, it is about the original flying object tutorial by Digital_Dave back at Brickfilms.com. Unfortunately, the pictures no longer work.
Last edited by bluejeansummer (December 29, 2009 (05:42pm))
Just a quick update: The movie is completely filmed, and should be online in a day or two.
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