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A Question for Dad
An over-excited father wonders what his son wants to ask him. Happy Father's Day, everyone! 
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Music:
"Open Those Bright Eyes" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com).
Nice!
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The voice acting and idea was great! Amazing job! You may want to work on your animation a little, but other than that, great video!
It looks like you did an amazing job, you may want to speed up your fps though (frames per second) the arms moved a little slow, but other than that, it was awesome 
It looks like you did an amazing job, you may want to speed up your fps though (frames per second) the arms moved a little slow, but other than that, it was awesome
I wouldn't suggest this. It just seemed that you needed to ease in and out more. There were also some set bumps here and there.
Otherwise, it was a great and fun Father's Day film! 
Good quality, too. Nice job!
Thank you for all of the replies! The slow movement was actually because I miscalculated the number of frames I needed to each clip and when I took too many frames, the audio was too short. I was going to fix it, but I ran out of time. 
I'm working on getting those bumps smoothed out. They are not actually set bumps, but camera bumps (well, sometimes the table moves a bit too...). My tripod is un-stable, unfortunately... Thanks for watching!
One way I think you could possibly stop the camera bumps is by setting a timer on your camera. That way, your finger won't be moving the camera that you take a picture. I would have a timer for about two seconds.
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... The slow movement was actually because I miscalculated the number of frames I needed to each clip and when I took too many frames, the audio was too short...
Many times I have "over produced" on the frame count. Something that should be on screen for 1 second (15 frames) but I've taken 27 frames (for example) to cross the screen. The simple thing to do is to simply erase/hide/delete every second frame so your motion "speeds up".
This doesn't always work as you might then leave yourself too short - or there is other motion going on that can't afford to have frames stripped from. None-the-less, sometimes removing every second shot providers a better finish even if it does end up shorter than expected. For example - if you remove some frames from the middle of the motion (not the start or end) then you can build an ease-in/ease-out look. Horses for courses - hope that helps. 
@Wammy I use a tethering software, so I don't touch the camera usually. Sometimes when I have to zoom in or change focus it moves the camera though. And especially when I need to rotate the camera, it moves a lot. I'm looking into getting a better tri-pod or building some sort of camera slider with rotation.
@togfox Thanks for the tips, I usually speed up my framerate, but your method is good too.
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Uhh Ozone this is a 5 year old thread...
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