Animovie maker
If you are an animator, or would like to be, check out the Animovie maker.
http://www.jazwares.com/animovie/
Basically it is all of my childhood dreams come true on two fronts. First of all, it is a battery powered pencil test machine for less than $60. Second, it has Marvel Superheroes all over it.
I gave one to my nephew for Christmas, and bought one for myself too. I took the one I bought myself apart, and I am trying to figure out a way to connect the pieces directly to my animation disc.
It is a webcam that connect directly to your TV through RCA jacks, similar to those Atari 2600 and Pacman toys they sell now. But you can capture sequential images, and play them back at 6 frames per second. The picture is pretty decent, and it is a fast way to capture your keys as you are drawing, without having to scan or go to your computer and test the animation.
I can't imagine how much time and money this would have saved me, over time ,if I had one of these when I was younger. In highschool I had to shoot things on Super-8, and then send the film in to get developed at $48 bucks a pop, not to mention that by the time the film came back I had lost all interest in whatever it was I was working on. I have had tons of slow, and expensive scanners on CGA computers, and VGA computers. It would take forever to scan and publish movies to watch. These days, I still use a scanner that takes about 1 minute per drawing at home...
The drawback is the 6 frames per second. Most of the Captain Capitalism cartoons are animated at 24 fps. But this is a good way to check keys, or watch a slow play to check arcs and things like that...
While on the phone at work I do little "post-it-note" animations...in the next few weeks I will capture some of these with the animovie maker and show you how it works.
http://www.jazwares.com/animovie/
Basically it is all of my childhood dreams come true on two fronts. First of all, it is a battery powered pencil test machine for less than $60. Second, it has Marvel Superheroes all over it.
I gave one to my nephew for Christmas, and bought one for myself too. I took the one I bought myself apart, and I am trying to figure out a way to connect the pieces directly to my animation disc.
It is a webcam that connect directly to your TV through RCA jacks, similar to those Atari 2600 and Pacman toys they sell now. But you can capture sequential images, and play them back at 6 frames per second. The picture is pretty decent, and it is a fast way to capture your keys as you are drawing, without having to scan or go to your computer and test the animation.
I can't imagine how much time and money this would have saved me, over time ,if I had one of these when I was younger. In highschool I had to shoot things on Super-8, and then send the film in to get developed at $48 bucks a pop, not to mention that by the time the film came back I had lost all interest in whatever it was I was working on. I have had tons of slow, and expensive scanners on CGA computers, and VGA computers. It would take forever to scan and publish movies to watch. These days, I still use a scanner that takes about 1 minute per drawing at home...
The drawback is the 6 frames per second. Most of the Captain Capitalism cartoons are animated at 24 fps. But this is a good way to check keys, or watch a slow play to check arcs and things like that...
While on the phone at work I do little "post-it-note" animations...in the next few weeks I will capture some of these with the animovie maker and show you how it works.
posted by Captain Capitalism at 9:27 PM
1 Comments:
I just picked this up on special for $24.00 at Toys R us. they were all on clearance. So how has it worked for you? I'm into action figures and I'm thinking it might be cool with some small 3" figures.
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