Sir Wade Neistadt Creative choices! Trying to figure out the best idea/gestures for an animation shot. I take so long to start animating because I’m afraid I’ll commit to a not very good idea, which has happened several times. If I think an idea has potential, briefly storyboard it, and after doing pre-vis for a few days you only then realise it sucks or isn’t that funny 😭 It stresses me as even if the animation turns out good, if it’s a boring concept it makes it harder to engage people. Any tip that helps overcome this?
Creative choices for sure. It’s tough trying to get to that feature level. So many subtle things that are thrown into a character like pretty much keeping the eye brows alive barely ever keeping them completely still.
5:29 I'd say a great example of that is that one Vine in which the Girl took audio from a scene of a mom and a little girl talkijg before she leaves for school and acted them both. The audio is really happy and wholesome, but the girl makes them act sarcastic and passive agressive and it's genous, it's so creative and really shows the power of movement during conversation
You’re channel is very underrated. Keep up the great work. I appreciate you posting these videos, they’re very helpful to me and I’m sure a lot of others.
Hello. Can you make a video about how you shoot and edit your reference videos for your animations? I mean how you plan the actions even when there are two characters in the shot?
Should we explore acting choices with thumbnails first or with shooting references? I find shooting references for acting is quite tough but we get some subtleties from that, whereas thumbnailing i think sometimes i over plan the small actions
Glad it helped! The 11 second club is a great way to improve your skills, but it also hits that issue of a ton of people using the same dialogue so it's kind of a double edged sword!
One struggle I have is keeping moving holds alive. To make a pause in dialogue to allow the character to process something feel alive and natural. Without doing something over the top.
Fritz FD yes I have the exact same problem myself! It's so hard to animate still poses, my characters always end up having this "dead" moment when they stop where they look frozen. It breaks the immersion and makes them feel less believable
my biggest problem for my animations is to get female voices, i can cover the males one now and then, but my voice is too deep and no effect would fix it
If you know how to use a daw that supports vst you could try downloading this vst called “alter ego” by French company plouge. One can write words in, choose the voice and timbre pitch all kinds of shit. It’s free, and takes some getting used to but it could work for ya? It’s more of a midi instrument than a text to speech but you can for sure emulate a female voice and likely get it close to what you would like to do with some time and settings stuff. I’m no pro but feel free to message me with ?s
Thank you for the great advice when it comes to choosing dialogue to animate. Its very helpful. How exactly can one download or extract the audio you need from a youtube video? Most programs can take aiff or wav formats. Any recommendations for programs or websites to do this? We tried using recording devices but you sometimes get static in the recording. Which is not ideal for animating or reels. Either way thank you for sharing your knowledge :D :D
I was told that using audio from animated film and/or tv series is a bad idea to use for animation acting exercises. And use live action ones instead. I didn’t want to believe that.
Hi, I use blender as I am on a fairly low budget. i would like to specialize in animation but I can't start if I don't have models, materials, lighting etc... What would you recommend? and what is the best way of learning animation?
Hey man, Tim from animation mentor told me to reach out to you for this question after I requested to get an opinion from a working student before moving forward. Here goes: I was wondering if animation mentor is worth the go if I decide I want to do 2d animation rather than 3d. I lean towards 2d just because that’s always the animator I imagined I’d be but who knows, I haven’t decided definitely if I’d work in 2d or 3d. Let me know please if animation mentor is worth the go considering the possible path change to 2d. Would the animation course help me with 3d as well as 2d?
Hey man! I definitely think it's still worth doing- the things you learn at AM are 100% applicable to any medium of animation: 3D/2D/stop-motion/etc. I never would have considered doing any 2D because I'm not a very good artist, but I have no doubt in my mind that if I animated something today in 2D (and if we ignore my poor drawing skills) that animation-wise it would be pretty solid! Plus if you do AM and learn 3D, then you'll just have double the skillset than the rest of us! :) It's absolutely worth doing and it will teach you what you need to know for both 2D and 3D. I totally recommend it!
And I'm happy to answer any other questions you may have about the program too! (You should definitely watch my video about my AM experience if you haven't, just in case that answers any repeat questions preemptively haha)
Thanks man and sorry I haven't gotten back to you sooner. I really appreciate you giving me some feedback and I will be starting the Maya workshop shortly. Again, thank you. It means a lot to get advice from someone in the industry.
Maybe a stupid question, but i want to know if it's possible (relevant) to use an audio file in other languages (french, japanese...). for North American recruiters it is maybe a bit off topic, I don't know....
How to deal with copyright? Please help me! How do I know I can use certain audios legally? I don’t want to animate something just to find out I don’t have rights to present the audio! Also, even if I’m not going to publish it, I’m afraid I look unprofessional by using something without permission.
Copyright isn’t typically something to worry about when it comes to picking audio for animation if the goal is a demo reel or job application! You can really pick anything you like because you aren’t trying to monetize the audio, just transform it’s perception using your animation skills :) Just pick what you like, animate it, and if you’re really worried - make your reel an unlisted video so it’s not even public! *not legal advice*
Try searching for old audio dramas on RUclips or anywhere. Most of the time they are fine to use. Wouldn’t have to worry about copyright if your really concerned.
If it helps, you can click the little settings Cog on the bottom right of the video to change the speed to something a little slower so I'm easier to understand :)
What do you struggle with most in your shots? Video reference? Lip sync? Creative choices, etc.? LET ME KNOW :D
Sir Wade Neistadt Creative choices! Trying to figure out the best idea/gestures for an animation shot. I take so long to start animating because I’m afraid I’ll commit to a not very good idea, which has happened several times. If I think an idea has potential, briefly storyboard it, and after doing pre-vis for a few days you only then realise it sucks or isn’t that funny 😭 It stresses me as even if the animation turns out good, if it’s a boring concept it makes it harder to engage people.
Any tip that helps overcome this?
Creative choices for sure. It’s tough trying to get to that feature level. So many subtle things that are thrown into a character like pretty much keeping the eye brows alive barely ever keeping them completely still.
@@pkminpkmon That is tough. Maybe before animating, u could get feedback from people to see if they like your idea
Sir, is there anything like speed animation, on Yan sculpt channel he said about speed sculpt or modeling improve you...
Sir Wade Neistadt LIP SYNC PLEASE!!!
5:29 I'd say a great example of that is that one Vine in which the Girl took audio from a scene of a mom and a little girl talkijg before she leaves for school and acted them both. The audio is really happy and wholesome, but the girl makes them act sarcastic and passive agressive and it's genous, it's so creative and really shows the power of movement during conversation
You’re channel is very underrated. Keep up the great work. I appreciate you posting these videos, they’re very helpful to me and I’m sure a lot of others.
I hope your happy because he got 153K now!!!
@@sanariyadilman1114 Oh wow he really blew up since then! Well deserved.
I struggle the most with hand animation 😩 & I learnt a lot of new things here, feeling much more informed :)
Hello. Can you make a video about how you shoot and edit your reference videos for your animations? I mean how you plan the actions even when there are two characters in the shot?
Should we explore acting choices with thumbnails first or with shooting references? I find shooting references for acting is quite tough but we get some subtleties from that, whereas thumbnailing i think sometimes i over plan the small actions
Where would you find unrecognizable audio? What would you search on RUclips? I just need some suggestions for audio.
Wow that was surprisingly really helpful.
My original plan was just to use existing 11 second club clips.
Glad it helped! The 11 second club is a great way to improve your skills, but it also hits that issue of a ton of people using the same dialogue so it's kind of a double edged sword!
Nice video, dude! You really deserve more subscribes! What do I struggle with most in my shots? My low knowledge...
Good vid. I was looking for something like this for very long time. Wade, you are very much underrated. You need more Subs and stuff.
One struggle I have is keeping moving holds alive. To make a pause in dialogue to allow the character to process something feel alive and natural. Without doing something over the top.
Fritz FD yes I have the exact same problem myself! It's so hard to animate still poses, my characters always end up having this "dead" moment when they stop where they look frozen. It breaks the immersion and makes them feel less believable
@@Blacky3481 Have you come across any solution that you found to be helpful for that problem?
I was searching for this video 1 week ago, thank you too much bro 👍
I would've never thought of this... Thx
Im using audio from a podcast on my current animation
my biggest problem for my animations is to get female voices, i can cover the males one now and then, but my voice is too deep and no effect would fix it
If you know how to use a daw that supports vst you could try downloading this vst called “alter ego” by French company plouge. One can write words in, choose the voice and timbre pitch all kinds of shit. It’s free, and takes some getting used to but it could work for ya? It’s more of a midi instrument than a text to speech but you can for sure emulate a female voice and likely get it close to what you would like to do with some time and settings stuff. I’m no pro but feel free to message me with ?s
Thank you for the great advice when it comes to choosing dialogue to animate. Its very helpful.
How exactly can one download or extract the audio you need from a youtube video?
Most programs can take aiff or wav formats. Any recommendations for programs or websites to do this? We tried using recording devices but you sometimes get static in the recording. Which is not ideal for animating or reels.
Either way thank you for sharing your knowledge :D :D
Lip syncing pleaseeeeeee
Love your videos men.
Thank you for your time and effort
I was told that using audio from animated film and/or tv series is a bad idea to use for animation acting exercises. And use live action ones instead. I didn’t want to believe that.
so you don't have to be overall animator? you can just be a body mechanics animator?
What if you go with a scene from a foreign movie that's in English obviously that isn't well known?
Or a not known comedy skit?
I learn how to make an animation 2D, but... is that impossible to make it as smooth as the audio based on Photoshop?
Hi, I use blender as I am on a fairly low budget. i would like to specialize in animation but I can't start if I don't have models, materials, lighting etc... What would you recommend? and what is the best way of learning animation?
Exact same problem here. Thanks for asking the question!
Cgcookie.com
really helpfull, but what do you do when your teacher gives you a really flat audio of three seconds to work with? HELP please
I love your channel man
Thanks man!
Hey man,
Tim from animation mentor told me to reach out to you for this question after I requested to get an opinion from a working student before moving forward. Here goes: I was wondering if animation mentor is worth the go if I decide I want to do 2d animation rather than 3d. I lean towards 2d just because that’s always the animator I imagined I’d be but who knows, I haven’t decided definitely if I’d work in 2d or 3d. Let me know please if animation mentor is worth the go considering the possible path change to 2d. Would the animation course help me with 3d as well as 2d?
Hey man! I definitely think it's still worth doing- the things you learn at AM are 100% applicable to any medium of animation: 3D/2D/stop-motion/etc. I never would have considered doing any 2D because I'm not a very good artist, but I have no doubt in my mind that if I animated something today in 2D (and if we ignore my poor drawing skills) that animation-wise it would be pretty solid! Plus if you do AM and learn 3D, then you'll just have double the skillset than the rest of us! :) It's absolutely worth doing and it will teach you what you need to know for both 2D and 3D. I totally recommend it!
And I'm happy to answer any other questions you may have about the program too! (You should definitely watch my video about my AM experience if you haven't, just in case that answers any repeat questions preemptively haha)
Thanks man and sorry I haven't gotten back to you sooner. I really appreciate you giving me some feedback and I will be starting the Maya workshop shortly. Again, thank you. It means a lot to get advice from someone in the industry.
Maybe a stupid question, but i want to know if it's possible (relevant) to use an audio file in other languages (french, japanese...). for North American recruiters it is maybe a bit off topic, I don't know....
It's very helpfull for us.. sir done a great job😉
Thank you!!!
Hey, Sir! Is it also bad to use dialogue from a game? Even if the animation on that game was bad and I want to improve/change it?
Very helpful video.thanks man
How to deal with copyright? Please help me! How do I know I can use certain audios legally? I don’t want to animate something just to find out I don’t have rights to present the audio! Also, even if I’m not going to publish it, I’m afraid I look unprofessional by using something without permission.
Copyright isn’t typically something to worry about when it comes to picking audio for animation if the goal is a demo reel or job application! You can really pick anything you like because you aren’t trying to monetize the audio, just transform it’s perception using your animation skills :) Just pick what you like, animate it, and if you’re really worried - make your reel an unlisted video so it’s not even public!
*not legal advice*
hi sir, can you make a video about cinematography? well umm... for my final year project. Thanks!
Going to make a research about Cinematography In Animation. It will help me a lot.
How do you get the audio from RUclips?
Mp3 juices mabye might work.
Would we have to worry about copyright when finding dialogue?
Try searching for old audio dramas on RUclips or anywhere. Most of the time they are fine to use. Wouldn’t have to worry about copyright if your really concerned.
Amazing Video Wayde. I'm a Brazilian guy, rap talking is impossible to understand to me, can you talk a bit slower please?
If it helps, you can click the little settings Cog on the bottom right of the video to change the speed to something a little slower so I'm easier to understand :)
(But I will work on talking a bit slower too)
your eyes look like the lucifer actor eyes from tv series
Can we use foreign language movies?
Of course! Add subtitles if you want
i get the notification, come, skip watch, leave a like and disappear
Isn't the video content interesting or useful to you though?
👍👍👍👍👍👍💕💕
Bro probably either absolutely loves, or absolutely hates tiktok.😅
Tiktok is a GREAT place for audio! This video is older than tiktok though :P
@SirWade Oh, I know. I'M older than tiktok. Heck, I'm older than Google.🤣
Hello!:)
Hi!
Ur videos are too long.....it takes a millenial to find the answer m looking for
can u speak slower , i cuod't catch up