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Difficulty: Hard
Expected Duration: Couple of Hours
Description
Old school pencil animation was cool. New style pencil animation is even better. This activity will have you making a nice pencil animation video, including backgrounds, characters and music.
If you feel like you need more practice, you should go through the Pencil Animation Challenge activity. It will give you some practice with the basics of pencil animation.
Now lets get started.
Basic Steps
Get yourself prepared
- Create your script (you can use the script activity to do this)
- Storyboard your video (you can use the storyboard activity for this)
- Download your software (if you have not already done so)
Follow the storyboard and make your animation
- Create your background (add it to a bitmap layer)
- Create a frame with character(s) (on a separate layer)
- Move to the next frame, copy your background, animate your character(s)
- Continue this until you are done ...
Edit, add music, save and share
- Go back and edit any frames necessary
- Change timing as required
- Add in voice and other sound (in one or more layers)
- Add titles
- Export as a movie
- Upload to this activity
- Upload to other sites as desired (eg. Youtube)
That's it.
Note: if you are using Pencil, you need to save as a Flash sfw file. This will then needs to be converted to a stanrdard format to be uploaded. An example of a windows tool that will do this is IWISoft Flash / SWF to Video Converter.
