Saturday, July 20, 2013

2014 Club Eternia Support Video

I was glad that Toy Guru seemed less panicked at the panel this year about hitting the minimum number of subscribers. A few days before SDCC I started working on my Support the Sub video like I made last year. Since I has He-Man beg people the Support the Sub and Grayskull Pre-Order, I decided to go with a different angle this year. I finished it up right after Mattypalooza was over. Hopefully the thermometer on MattyCollector.com  keeps moving and we don't have to go into crisis management mode again this year.

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  1. How long does it take you to complete something like this?Nice job bro!

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    1. I'm going to say around 10 hours.

      I probably have at least an hour of prep. I write a loose script (I always get my best ideas while animating, so some lines get added) and collect the toys I'm using. There is probably close to 6 hours of animating. I have to set up the shots, take a picture, move the toys, take another picture. Then I record all the voices. (I wish I was better at consistently doing the voices. I feel like Randor's voice lost its gravellyness when he talked to Spector) I probably spent at least 3 hours editing it. The editing software I use doesn't let me layer a lot of sounds so I often have to render a final copy, then re-import the video so I can layer more sounds. This happens when ever there are sound effects, music, or speaking at one time.

      Since I just do it for fun I never worry to much about sets or minor mistakes. Some of the longer projects I've done with friends are perhaps a little more polished in the audio areas at least. Action Figure Adventures the series was edited by a friend of mine on a much more sophisticated system and he has a better set up for recording the sounds.

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  2. Impressive!I've used audio programs like Cakewalk when making music.There is a freeware version of an audio program called Audacity that i mess around with now.

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    1. Yeah, I know there are other free audio programs but with the animation I need to see the video while doing the audio. It has to be timed together. I also don't have a very good computer, so running a fancy video software with more audio tracks would be nice, but would crash.

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