Animation!
Added 2015-08-05 18:37:40 +0000 UTCSo! I've just been paid a couple bucks over $1.000 thru Patreon. THANK YOU! Which activates the "If my fans pledge thousands, rather than the hundreds I'm expecting, I'm gonna start making animated cartoons!" promise. It's somewhere on the front page, I think.
So instead of rubbing your money all over my sweaty body, like a normal person would do, I'm gonna start getting my pictures to move. So! First hardware I'm gonna get is a monitor for the Mac Mini I hope to do a bunch of the animating on. Any advice on a reasonably-priced monitor? Or what to avoid like the plague?
I'm gonna make my third try to ascend the Flash animation program's learning curve. Catch: local 2-day courses cost $650 to $800. Ow! Anybody got a simpler/cheaper 2D animation program they'd reccomend? With a manageable learning curve - seems I got old at some point, so my brain is starting to fossilize.
But damn, this could be fun! I'll keep you-all updated on my progress in my Saturday postings, howzat?
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... hit enter by mistake. I would recommend YouTube or maybe something like Digital Tutors instead of a $600+ dollar course that probably won't do you much good since it's only 2 days. There are too many free online resources, you just have to do some digging for them. The other popular animation software at the moment would be TVPaint (expensive) or Toon Boom's Harmony which is okay priced. I haven't tried either of them myself but I've heard of lot of good things about both. From what I've heard Toon Boom's stuff is a much better Flash.
Psy Draggy
2015-08-10 22:49:48 +0000 UTCI'm assuming you already have Flash, which is why you're going for that.
Psy Draggy
2015-08-10 22:43:37 +0000 UTCMonitor wise any old monitor will do, but stick with major brand names. Check that it has the right connector, though. If you want good color, you might want to go with an IPS monitor instead of a cheaper TN monitor (regular kind of LCD) but unless you're going with some sort of well defined colors like pantone colors it might not be worth the money due to how much variation there is between monitors of everyone who would view the animation.
Webster Leone
2015-08-08 03:08:15 +0000 UTCKarno is going for traditional hand-drawn animation so HTML5 isn't a good choice. Flash is still quite popular with the pros because it handles traditional cell animation while improving on it (onion skin, color gradients, frame tweaking, etc.) that a lot of other cheap animation apps can't do. Now if Adobe takes out all of that crappy web development mess and comes out with a dedicated animation application, that would be even better.
Paul Lenoue
2015-08-06 04:00:14 +0000 UTCPersonally, I would be content if you just kept to comics, it would seem a productive use of your time.
Kenneth Chisholm
2015-08-06 01:26:19 +0000 UTCYou better be wearing shorts under that you mook, others have to handle that money when ya spend it ya know X3
Vawkis Silverfall
2015-08-06 00:53:21 +0000 UTCFlash is dying, from what I hear. You should probably learn HTML5 instead.
Threyon
2015-08-06 00:12:37 +0000 UTCHmm, Karno McDuck
Garry Stahl
2015-08-05 19:46:56 +0000 UTC$650 for a 2-day course? Yikes! Avoid those as they always end up with one guy throwing a ton of info at you as fast as they can. As for animation programs, keep in mind that you want one for making videos. Several apps have come out that only make html5 animations, which is great for web sites but lousy when converted to video. While I'm not up to date on the latest animation apps I still say Flash is the best for your type of drawing style. While Flash is bombing worldwide as a web developing tool (and rightly so) it's still a very good animation app that thousands of animators use every day. For the price lynda.com has the best tutorials for Adobe apps, but have you tried a Dummies book? Or how about just surfing youtube for how-to videos? Or attending a meeting of the Tucson Adobe User Group to see if they have any useful advice?
Paul Lenoue
2015-08-05 19:43:56 +0000 UTCFrom what little I know about animations, Flash is on its way out. Not sure what's replacing it but Adobe's turned into such a moneygrubber of a company that their products are being abandoned whenever possible.
Echoen
2015-08-05 18:44:00 +0000 UTC
