Animation to be shown at festival

[sparky]

I got an email this week from the film programmer at Birmingham Arts Fest 2007 and he said he'd seen an animation I did on YouTube and wants to show it at the festival!

There are a few editing issues - it was the first animation I ever tried, kind of experimental really and I only had a webcam and Windows Movie Maker (awful, awful editing program) so after a re-edit to clean it up I will be sending it to him to be shown.

I'm quite excited about it! I never thought anyone would even watch it let alone like it enough to do something with it.

Just goes to show... anything's possible!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RQRRAv_XnQ

[Laura Lynne]

That's really good you must have some patience.

[sparky]

The worst part was the editing. Windows Movie Maker is shockingly bad. It couldn't handle the 300-odd photos and kept crashing and I kept losing everything. I think it took about 8 hours to edit in the end and there are parts where it flickers into colour when it shouldn't because Movie Maker is ****.

The second worst part was the nightmares. I was making it for 12 hours a day for 4 days and I kept dreaming that I was trapped in the animation, only able to move a millimetre and then having to wait for a photo to be taken!!! Stop-motion messes with your mind!

Having said all that, I'll be making another one soon :)

[Toon]

It's good you'll have to put it on the blog