Q&A: Hi can Any one can tell me how can i make a cheap animation movie drawing cartoons?
Question by kung fu: Hi can Any one can tell me how can i make a cheap animation movie drawing cartoons?
I’am looking for the right Animation data books and camera to start with.for a novie like me.I like to add sound with music ,color and back ground movement of objects.
I was looking at A good larg cheap graphic pad to draw on.with a size about 12/10 or a larger. but not over two hunderd dollars.looking for any data that can get me started.I’am just a novice at this film stuff.but i can draw good.i would like to see my art come to life on film.thank you.for reading this.I would like to make a movie like Coraline
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Answer by jplatt39
Generally you want a wacom tablet, and if you want to be a completist, a scanner, a light table with register bars (which you can build yourself for about $ 40 or buy for upwards of $ 500 — yes I know that sounds outrageous but that’s how it is) a mac (I’ll get back to that) the paid version of Adobe Flash and Photoshop or GIMP.
I actually don’t recommend GIMP usually, which would be surprising. When doing the Graphic arts, though, you want the best tool for the job. The GIMP falls down on Commercial Printing, period. That’s quite enough for me. You want a Macintosh — not a hackintosh — because it is a hardware/software combination which is optimized for presentation graphics. I like to say it is never a bargain but often a value.
Windows machines are built by independent manufacturers who do not coordinate in making them fine-tuned to any one purpose. They are consumer machines. As a consumer operating system Windows is by far the largest and most memory-intensive OS there is. This means less memory is available for graphics and animation programs, and those are precisely programs which need the most memory.
A cheap alternative is Linux, and I will get to that — it is not optimal generally and the best linux alternative is not optimal period. You scan or create the pictures you want to animate into the computer. Again, Photoshop or GIMP both of which are paint Programs/Raster Editors/Bitmap Editors are the best choices for processing your files. Save them to a directory then use a program, again, the paid version of Flash is what secretagentbob uses for his wonderful Charlie the Unicorn Youtube videos, assemble them into a movie. As te Gimp is a free version of Photoshop, available for any platform, so there is a movie maker called Avidemux which is free for any platform:
http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/
There is also an animation program called Synfig. DO NOT use it. Or rather don’t even try since you will most assuredly fail if you do.
Blender does 3D animation:
http://www.blender.org
You would still need to use gimp or photoshop. Two movies made with it, Elephants Dream and Big Buck Bunny have their own web pages with details:
http://www.bigbuckbunny.org
http://www.elephantsdream.org
Read them as well as look at them.
Now, for Linux alternatives. The best, as I said, is sub-optimal. It is a live cd with avidemux, and command line alternatives like mencoder and ffmpeg as well as the Gimp (and even Synfig) installed. There are other live cds but they use more of your memory and it is not as easy to write to disk with them. I am talking about a disk called dyne:bolic:
http://www.dynebolic.org
It was created by an Italian Rastafarian living in Amsterdam. Yes, I am thinking about that pungent sweet/sour smoke as well. In fact sometimes I think the man’s judgement is affected by it. You cannot always get sound working on it, and to access the internet you sometimes have to open a terminal and type “dhclient eth0”. He recommends a method of installing it to disk — which I’ve never seen work and I’m not sure I would want to, and the default user is root — and there is an old joke around us habitual Linux users that if you surf the net as root you might as well be running Windoze because Windows browsers tend to have permission to write files anywhere by default while *nix browsers don’t. You will find your hard drive is available through the directory /mnt/hd1/1. Once you can get used to all these Unix/Gnu/Linux things, you will find that you can boot up, work with the programs without installing them, save your creations to /mnt/hd1/1 and reboot, after which all you will have of the experience is the files you created — on your default Widows system. But even though I prefer Linux generally for this I have to go back where I started: if you are serious, get a Mac.
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