I'm stuck in dial up hell. I use MPEG-2 with a constance bit rate 1000 to 2000. This will make your work look like crap, but you can get 1meg per minute conversions. You Tube will convert your 100 meg up load down to this size any way. So up loading quality is a wast of time. Also add 5 seconds of c...

My I suggest that you upload you work to:

http://www.metacafe.com/

I think you will get more exposer and might get a few dollars for your effort.

Dale

Don't tell anyone else about this website, I don't want it to be clog up with other peoples junk. I got plenty of my own to convert.

Dale

I haven't got the front view and I don't think I will. Here is the side view with a small head turn.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JBOvSBqC3M

Dale

I like "Sin and Kristshun" voice work and the humor.

Dora 3d vs Godzilla:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UN8aXQcbwLU

Dora explores mom and dad's room.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAd1zz2AO6g

One Million Pot Plants
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCGbcOXs2pE

Dale

Nice work. You are seeing a shrink aren't you?

Dale

In Poser, (oh no! I use Poser) I would use the symmetry feature. Where I would swap one side of a four legged animal to the other, so the movement of the right side would then have the same position of the left after moving the four legged creature froward. The same could be done in AS by having a f...

Toonboom has onionskinning set to one or two or three frames behind or infront. When you step to the next frame you see the onionskin of the last one. Maybe a srcipt that does the same thing. That when you move forward it shows the last onionskin. Toonboom is a vector ( when drawing in program) anim...

It would be nice if there was a script linking the two programs. As you scrub through the time line in AS it would go in Papagayo.

Maybe a small program that outputs the frame number and has both As and Papagayo respond?

Dale

Thanks, I have been using the open source Camstudio.

Dale

Have you look at Life Forms Studio? http://www.charactermotion.com/products/lifeforms/index.html I think that you could make your own rig in the Life Forms that is 2D. Then export to Blender. This should work if you are only after an application that is only going to be used for the animation of the...

I think you will find that the best way to have the mix of 2d and 3d when using AS is to render the elements in the 3D program and import them into AS. Unless you have to have the shadows that 3D program will give you, you will find that it faster to render a picture then animate over top of it. Or ...

Bvh has a stander naming for each bone: hip, arm, hand etc. In AS you could have the same but it actually be very limiting. Bones control movement what would be morph in 3D. In AS one might add extra bones just to show body movement like breathing. So their is no stander rig in AS. Pulse the fact th...

I tried ToonBooom and it does an ok job of lipsynch. There is no way to export to a dat file. but you can render out to a sequence of pictures then import them into AS. The down side their is only 7 phonemes. Good lipsynch will have expressions along with the mouth movement and that takes time and e...

It will display the frame number for each frame of your animation. Most editing programs shows the sounds volume. If you animate at 24 frame a second and convert to 29.9 or 30, you will know what frame should be the start of the mouth movement and where it should end in the editing program. Go back ...