Thank you, Michael, a very helpful tutorial! I made the mistake of only making one drawing per scene on my first animatic and had a heck of a time getting the timing right for the finished video. The scene lengths were correct but the timing within the scene was all over the place. More time with the drawings and animatic would have meant less time correcting timing mistakes at the animation stage. Great tips!!!
Another great video from you educating aspiring animators, Thank you as always Mr.Parks. Just wanted to add that "Blocking"; taking pictures of key poses for your animations helps too if you don't want draw. Learned that from fellow stop motion animator Justin Rasch.
Very good tutorial. There are some softwares that you can create storyboards like storyboarder which is free and even Toon boom Storyboard pro which is paid. Do you prefer drawing on paper?
I'm so old-school it didn't even occur to me to draw digitally. I would have at least mentioned it. I have drawn on my iPad, and there's a gap between the stylus and the line that I didn't like, so I think I just don't have the right hardware for it.
@@MichaelParks I see, the editing software I'm using is shortcut, which is free and it has a timecode tool. The only trouble is, when I add the timecode in the picture, it only does one scene then, when add a timecode on another picture it starts again. So what I would is export without a timecode first, split the scenes, then add the timecode on.
@@Rover259Wild Can you do layers in shortcut? You can make a clip that runs the length of a shot or the whole short and add the timecode to that. Then use a cropping filter (or however that is done) to crop that clip down to just the timecode numbers. That's how I do it in Premiere. I like to have a separate time code for each shot, then sometimes a second timecode that runs through the whole short.
Thank you so much. Great video
Thanks for sharing
Great to see you again Michael!
Thank you, Michael, a very helpful tutorial! I made the mistake of only making one drawing per scene on my first animatic and had a heck of a time getting the timing right for the finished video. The scene lengths were correct but the timing within the scene was all over the place. More time with the drawings and animatic would have meant less time correcting timing mistakes at the animation stage. Great tips!!!
Another great video from you educating aspiring animators, Thank you as always Mr.Parks. Just wanted to add that "Blocking"; taking pictures of key poses for your animations helps too if you don't want draw. Learned that from fellow stop motion animator Justin Rasch.
Awesome animation tutorial video 😺👍.
Very good tutorial. There are some softwares that you can create storyboards like storyboarder which is free and even Toon boom Storyboard pro which is paid. Do you prefer drawing on paper?
I'm so old-school it didn't even occur to me to draw digitally. I would have at least mentioned it. I have drawn on my iPad, and there's a gap between the stylus and the line that I didn't like, so I think I just don't have the right hardware for it.
@@MichaelParks I see, the editing software I'm using is shortcut, which is free and it has a timecode tool. The only trouble is, when I add the timecode in the picture, it only does one scene then, when add a timecode on another picture it starts again. So what I would is export without a timecode first, split the scenes, then add the timecode on.
@@Rover259Wild Can you do layers in shortcut? You can make a clip that runs the length of a shot or the whole short and add the timecode to that. Then use a cropping filter (or however that is done) to crop that clip down to just the timecode numbers. That's how I do it in Premiere. I like to have a separate time code for each shot, then sometimes a second timecode that runs through the whole short.
@@MichaelParks yes you can do layers.
I was literally just thinking I needed to find out how to do this👍
Brilliant Micheal! Can I get a autograph?
There's a channel called StopmoNick that I think you'll like.