Tutorial Time!

No, this lady is not Gloria Swanson from Sunset Boulevard. She's a dancer in the upcoming Animan video. It's obvious by now that my next video will have a Spanish theme. To create the right atmosphere, I have to animate all types of characters. This dancer is just a part of the background, so her movement repeats in a cycle. It saves drawings! But even a short cycle like this one is a lot of drawing and animating. Download the tutorial and see for yourself!


Download Tutorial 3 MOV
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               This is the completed cycle in color.  The last drawing flows back into the first one.

A 3D Test

The animation software I use allows placement of simple 3D constructions, so I decided to use it in one scene of my upcoming animation. Here is a test I did.

The Animation Process is Slow

Many friends have asked to see how I create animation, so I made this tutorial.  It's about 47 minutes long, so it's a big file (631mb MOV,  250mb WMV), and will take time to download.

The original drawing session was about 1 hour and 45 minutes, so I speeded up the video to make it shorter.

It is a cycle of 4 drawings repeating. You will also see how I make the drawings move, and how I draw colored lines.

All the background music you hear comes from the internet, or from YouTube.

"T Town" (record)--"El Relicario", "El Curito Calacruz", "Espagna Cani", "Luna Enamorada", "Maracaibo", "The Continental", "Mexican Hat Dance"

From Youtube--

"Cuban Overture"  by George Gerschwin, "Pavanne" from Morton Gould's "American Symphonette No. 2", and "Look What I've Got" by Paul Whiteman

Tutorial 2 MOV

Tutorial 2 WMV
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How do I buy the videos?

                                Coach Ben's Big Beach Adventure is $7 U.S.
                                Running time: 8:05
Before you decide to buy, you may want to check out these two trailers:

BEACH TRAILER #1

BEACH TRAILER #2

                                  Junior College Men's Camp is $7 U.S.
                                  Running time: 15:50
Before you decide to buy, you may want to check out this trailer:
CAMP TRAILER

HERE'S WHAT THE VIDEOS SOUND LIKE:

Translation Gadget

We have a cool new gadget on this blog--the Translation Gadget! It's at the top of the right column on this page. Choose the language you want to see, and it translates everything! Judging from the foreign languages I do know, this gadget translates a lot better than most computer translation software.  

At the moment, my upcoming animation project is proceeding very slowly, but surely.  Here's another sneak peek.