How to Make a Cartoon Movie Online
- 1). Write a script with storyboards. Keep your story short and punchy---10 minutes or less. Visual detail is important to animation, more than live action movies, so make a sketch of any gags or sequences that must be seen to be understood. Finish the pre-production process by drawing a full storyboard.
- 2). Record your dialogue track using a digital microphone and audio recording software. Picture your characters. Imagine how they would talk and try to express that through your own voice. Exaggerate their defining voice characteristics. Tweak the speed or pitch of the sound file in the audio software until it reaches the desired effect.
- 3). Use an animation program in conjunction with your drawing tablet to animate your cartoon. Draw the keyframes---defining positions in animation. Keep adding more keyframes between your first keyframes until you have a smoothly animated result. Avoid drawing characters' mouths if they're not speaking or otherwise making noise.
- 4). Import your dialogue track, one character and one scene at a time. Watch the result several times to check the timing of your animation. Say the dialogue in the mirror to see the shapes your own mouth makes, then reproduce those movements in your frames.
- 5). Export your animation to a video format, making sure that it clocks in at less than 2 gigabytes and under 10 minutes. Upload the file to YouTube. Embed the YouTube video on your cartoon website, personal website or social networking page.
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