I just got home from being in Oregon all weekend, so I haven't seen this
topic since I made it. I'll try to answer all your Q's.
-I used Macromedia Flash MX
-I didn't use any 3th party tools, everything was just drawn. However,
the unicycling in the TV and the rider unicycling along were rotoscoped
(a timely process of looking at video frame by frame and using it as a
guide for the subject's movement)
-Yes, the freestyle was U2. The street was U2. The Muni was me. The
trials is from a clip I had lying around on my computer. (I'm pretty
sure it came from TheDans gallery)
-Flash is not cheap. However, for students there is a really awesome
educational version. It's basically the same, and $100. There is a
free 30 day trial of the full program at www.macromedia.com
-The music was not original. I helped jury a youth film festival last
year, and kept a boxful of the entries after we were done with them.
One of them _The_Empty_Suitcase_ was a silent film with music attached
to each character. Each time the character was shown, their music would
play. Somehow I remembered about this movie's music when I made this
animation. I hooked up my VCR to my computer and recorded the audio.
Then I used an audio editor to cut out each character's music. Then I
had to mix them together for parts like the unicycle and SAT fighting on
the shoulders. Then I had to match the seconds in the flash scene with
the mixed music, while trying to sync the music with the animation. I
couldn't just make one big soundtrack because the scene's music had to
be on "stream" so it would be in sync. CONCLUSION: This was a lot of
work. Leo you are right when you said "this would be hell to do." You
might be wondering, "So Jess, you just stole that music?" I -borrowed-
it. Really though, I'm not selling the animation, so I'm 99.9% sure
that that is legal. I meant to add credits at the end, giving credit to
the movie. I will do that soon, I haven't had a chance.
-Yes, there was hours and hours and hours of animating. But it was fun
to do because as you can tell, I was expressing myself. It's not like I
was doing some randomn animation. I would have done this animation last
fall or early spring, but I didn't have time because of the things
chasing me in the animation. Finally, since I finished my AP and hard
classes May 7, I had a chance to make something.
Thanks for the compliments, it makes me feel good that you guys enjoyed
what I created.
Later,
Jess
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