Learn to animate and create your own classic animation, one frame at a time.
Sunday, March 4, 2007
Cartoons For Big Kids - Tex Avey
Tex Avery was a star maker for the Looney Tunes. The characters of Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig and Daffy Duck (at least) were defined in cartoons directed by Tex Avery. He introduced more adult themes and concerns into cartoons, especially when he was working at Metro Goldwyn Mayer.
I have another site devoted to animation - How-To-Make-Your-Own-Animation.com. It presents making classic animation in a different way - better organized than with a blog.
Start creating your own classic animation!
This 13 minute movie introduces animation fundamentals and shows you how to start animating with your PC and a webcam, video or DV camera using StopMotion Station from StopMotion-Software.com.
A shameless self-promotion movie that shows part of what I have done and what I'm about. Beware! At the end of the movie, I sing my "Moviemaker's Lament" while performing a movie. That's what you see in the screenshot - as I punch keys, I jump around in the movies I have on the system.
The whole purpose of this blog is to get you to create your own classic animation, preferably using my software, which is at StopMotion-Software.com. If you've made a movie you're proud of, using any of my shareware or freeware programs, please let me know and I'd be glad to post it here and help you share it with the world.
I am about as old as the transistor and have been watching movies for about half of their existence. I started playing wih movie cameras and projectors about 1960, and with the early microcomputers about 1978. I love combining knowledge and technology to create tools for moviemaking and especially animation, filling in the gaps I see that prevent me from making full use of hardware, software, and ideas.