Have you thought of combining methods to create your own anime?
Check out this video.
This might be a great way to make your anime.
Mix with AE or use Adobe Animate
Crazy Talk actually supports MOCAP and a 3d Turn around of your character. 2d might be the faster way to go.
Plus you can add 3d backgrounds or actual backgrounds. What do you think?
If you look at some of the other tutorial videos you will see how to turn a photo into a backround.
Then you can also add some AE FX.
If you don’t have a MOCAP system try the old fashion way. Get out and film yourself on your phone or with a friend and then use that to animate the character.
So I posted about this animation yesterday. I thought it was pretty cool to see someone create an entire movie all by themselves.
So if you want to create your own animation/anime/manga you can. Here are some of the questions I asked and some of the answers I got from the creator.
1. How did you make this so quickly by yourself? 18 months felt like a really long time for me to make this.
2. Was it self financed or is someone sponsoring you? It was self financed but it was only to pay my personal bills while I was making it. So about $15k total.
3. What do you think about perfectionism while creating? Are you a perfectionist? Or do you think that would hurt productivity? Do you just move on? I mean a see a lot of great shorts which usually take folks about the same amount of time you took to make an entire movie. Perfectionism definitely hurts productivity, sometimes I would get lost in the details while texturing the characters in Mari, or when creating the blendshapes in Maya.
4. Where can I see Kaptara and Chance? Chance had me in my seat. No one has ever created this theme before in animation. Very unique. Kaptara is up on Google Play store, ITunes, XBox, etc, don’t think its hard to find.
5. What is your day job if you don’t mind me asking or is making movies it? Right now I am the Animation Director at Arconyx.
6. Do you have any making of?this is the only known compilation of my behind the scenes work on Battle Oasis. https://vimeo.com/101570429
7. What did you start with? Do you have several shorts before attempting making a movie? I started this process about 12 years ago, learning each aspect of 3d just enough to be able to create what looked like a shot in a movie, then you just have to duplicate that work 1000 times, (1000 shots in a film about).
8. What advice would you give CG artists about making their own movie? My advice for making your own movies, is only learn the basic fundamentals of each stage, just enough to get the job done. Don’t over complicate things like, rigging, or rendering, just go with basics then try to make the lighting look unique.
9. I’ve commented alot about the cost of making animated films. I don’t think it should cost as much as it does 250 Million for Tangled. Folks told me to basically shut up and I don’t know what I”m talking about but for someone who has made 3 films themselves what do you think about the inflated budgets and what could you do with 40 Million dollars for a movie? You think you could reach Tangled quality? What if you had a 2 million dollar budget like they do on Asylum films? It’s definitely possible to make animated films a $100k budget, its just if you have a small team, no one wants to work for free, especially in this industry.
I really enjoyed watching this film. I like that this artist Mike Johnson was able to create an entire movie all on his own. Personally I’ve seen a lot of haters in the CG World basically telling folks making a movie can’t be done, you need 100 Million dollars and utterly hating the quality of a film when it doesn’t look like Pixar.
That is really sad to think. The fact is it can be done. Someone proved it can be done. It didn’t take even 1 million dollars to make and it does not need to be Pixar quality. We would all like Pixar quality but at this time it is not possible for a one man team but most audiences really don’t care. I’m sure most people would love to drive a Bentley, Porshe or Lambo but that doesn’t mean we don’t buy a car because we can’t have those. We buy the Toyotas, Hondas, Kias and Fords. They have nice cars even though they are not as fast or fancy.
Your audience is the same. You can still make a good looking CG film. Yes it may be lower quality but it does not mean that audiences will not like it.
There are 100s of stick animations out there that have Millions of views and people like them just as much as they would a Pixar movie.
So never let anyone tell you that you cannot make a movie especially if it will not look like Pixar.
Eventually technology will catch up and a one man person will be able to make a Toy Story movie but it will be the people who start now that will be there when it happens.
Yes you can make your own ANIME! I hope this site inspires and helps you.
Here is a video breaking down a rig for Puppet Animation. Personally I’m okay with it if it is creative and good. I guess because I come from the old flash days when you had to do things differently because there was no streaming at the time. Tween animation helped keep file sizes down. Because of this I’m okay with this type of animation if done correctly.
Here is a tutorial breaking down a rig.
Here are examples of good old fashioned tweening. Funny thing is this has become really popular over the years even in mainstream work.
I eat up everything I can to learn from the masters. Just watching how they work can give you so many clues into how things work and how you can put it into action.
Here is one or a few of my favorite Behind the scenes looks at the making of anime.
My last post was to share some tools you could affordably create MOCAP animations. In this post I wanted to share ideas on how to put it together.
Here is an example of my work.
I made this for fun. It took me less than 3 hours. I combined my mocap system with Poser using Michael 3.0 and an Ironman model I found online. Now I know it is not much but it was very easy. Now using this easy method you can put it together and make some really awesome animations very quickly of course imagination not included.
One reason I really love RWBY is knowing how this show was created. It really helped me realize that this cool stuff can be created by even the smallest of groups using a little imagination and creative thinking.
I wish Monty Oum could have seen this show to fruition. Thanks Rooster Teeth for a promising new season.
