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This is my first brickfilm, and I'm using it for an english project so much advice is needed from you vetrens out there
Here's the vid:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTLg7r2Y3Jo
Music suggestions, anamating suggestions, narrating suggestions, etc...
Whatever critism you have is welcome
Thanks Alot guys!
Overall, it is alright for a first brickfilm. I'm glad you have no light flicker, that is good. But one important thing is that you should NOT have a drastic lighting change as what happens at 0:16. That isn't good. Also, i'm not sure what happens in chapter 6 because i haven't read the book in two years, but try and light the background of your set a little more. It's kinda dark.
What was your frame-rate? It looked like 10-12 fps.
In chapter six it is a night scene so I thought I would make it darker. Sorry about the drastic difference but as a begginer I am slow and so when I relized the focus was a problem I didn't have time to retake the first 16 seconds of it. This project is due on Thursday and at this 16second/hour rate it will never be done...
As for fps, I am using 15 and I am sure of that.
oh, well if its dark, i guess that's fine. I might also suggest taking more pics for movement, just to smoothen it out.
you should come up with a spify walk cycle but otherwise it was pretty good for a first (much better than my first 
it was terrible)
you should come up with a spify walk cycle but otherwise it was pretty good for a first (much better than my first
Do you know where I could learn about walk cycles? I looked at some but they were very annoying. Oh and I added another part with a greenscreen or actually a red screen for the background here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/BrickSmiley?feature=mhum
Could you guys give me some advice on the green/red screen?
Thanks alot this is very helpful
search "nathan wells" on youtube: he has great tuutorials. also so does "xxxfancypantsxxx"
search "nathan wells" on youtube: he has great tuutorials. also so does "xxxfancypantsxxx"
Thanks alot, those touritals were very good. Do you know what free programs are best for animation, sound, and masking?
I was thinking of helium frog (although it sometimes goes down it has chromakeying, does monkey jam have chromakeying?)
GIMP for masking
And Audacity for sound
To put it all together I was using windows movie maker but I would like a better program. Suggestions are all welcome.
Thanks
Helium Frog is wonderful, even if it crashes, it saves your animation, and you can import your frames as individual frames (great for editing) or as a video file. GIMP is without a doubt the best photo editing program out there that's free. Audacity is also fantastic.
Sony Vegas is what I am currently using; yes, it costs $100, but if you're only going to be doing this project for a little while longer, head over to the Sony Vegas website and download the free trial version. No limitations, except it will only work for 30 days. You can do everything else that Sony Vegas does though; it was extremely useful for my last school project, when I didn't have the money to buy a program.
Hope this helps!
Just use two lamps and try to get a light that looks acceptable. Oh, and cover the lamp with a white paper to expand light in a regular way. I'm not the best to give advices of this kind, since I use only one lamp and I don't cover it with a paper. I get light flickers in fact (although I'm sure it has to do with the camera and not with my lighting).
Yeah Firsts are Hard -_-
I tried it!
I followed all the tutorials on youtube!
Like topitmunkeydog said watch nathan wells and facypant's videos!
THats how I got my motivation 
Check it out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tB0CHMuC … ture=feedu
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