Learn how to tell stories with Animation Master using your own models, sounds and bitmaps in four basic lessons. I believe you can learn it in four hours and then you have to practise for four more hours. Then you can teach it to others!

Animation Master is a professional program but possible to use in schools for students from 10 to 100. Other professional 3D programs you have to work with daily - not A:M - not having all those buttons and commands instead just the basic ones to use for whatever you want to do. And everything aimed at animating not just doing nice images - but that is of course possible too. These four lessons are for telling stories with lipsynched characters and some music!

DOWNLOAD - all together only 3.4 Megabyte:
PART 1: http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?act=A...=post&id=111084
PART 2: http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?act=A...=post&id=111085
PART 3: http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?act=A...=post&id=111086
PART 4: http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?act=A...=post&id=111087
The project: http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?act=A...=post&id=111088
The animation: http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?act=A...=post&id=111089

PART 1
You will learn the basics in A:M
Zoom, Move and Turn the modeling window. And right clicking the modeling window to change View: Front, Top, Right, Left... And changing between Render Modes: Wireframe, Shaded, Wireframe & Shaded

Making a Spline with some CPs, Modeling with Lathe and Extrude. Making a group - naming it - and coloring it. Inserting bones - making relationships between them - parent - child. Attaching CP:s to the bones. Animating in the Choreography using Skeletal Mode. And to Render the animation to a file.

PART2
Using what you learnt in part 1 to make a mouth and eyes and make the mouth smile with help of a Relationship Percentage Pose.

PART 3
Is about making an Action that is reusable in the Choreography. And about bitmaps as materials - eg. grass. And using a bitmap image as a tree making a Layer for it.
You will also learn to make a material in Animation Master.

PART 4
Import a sound - some music and drag it to the Choreography. And learn to give the characters mouth nine poses for forming the words. Make a dope sheet to sync the words to the mouth movements.
Render the choreography with sound and lipsync to a file perhaps uploading it to a webserver to get a world audience!

Living in a media world we have to learn not only to read and write in school. We have to learn how to use the new medias telling our stories to a local or world wide audience.

Most kids love to begin school learning to read and write. After some years most kids are not that happy any longer. Why?

I believe they do not learn how to express themselves - using their imagination and critical thinking and their emotions in a proper way - communicating with the world.

Animation with video makes it possible to express yourself using your creativity - to learn to grow up in the media society - working on getting an identity - and hopefully many of the conflicts in todays schools can be solved - perhaps in a future just laughing at the problems of today.

Animation Master being a professional program I believe is the program to use in schools learning to express yourself - using your whole I - all your imagination and realism by combining animation with video.

Here a tutorial in four parts to learn the basic concepts in A:M. I believe you can do it in only one day!!! Having understood the basic concepts you can as a teacher let your students work with the program and kids are fast learners - so soon they will learn you!

And you have got youngsters having the possibility to express themselves - telling their stories in the media society - just entertaining or/and telling useful stories about our history, our world today and about our future - their future!

Have a try with this tutorial in four parts to learn Animation Master basics yourself to tell your own stories and to teach others to tell their stories.

PART 1 of four basic lessons

PART 2 of the four basic lessons

PART 3 of the four basic lessons - some new tips added!

PART 4 of the four basic lessons

The project with sound and bitmaps.

The animation! Not much to see and hear - but it is the basics to do your own story - telling it with your own characters with lipsynch and music for a world audience!

Thank you for your efforts, Seven...

I wonder if it might not be advantageous to zip all together including the movie, proj file, and tutes... making a single download to a separate folder quick and easy.

And when you are moving the files about (from one post to another) it is frustrating as well.

Just some suggestions for ease of use, and that's something I'm certain teachers would appreciate.

Charlie

Man is seven million years old!!!
http://www.cbc.ca/story/science/national/2...-man050406.html

And we are more than six billion humans.
http://abc.hkcampus.net/~abc-lnk/lnk/lnk/Sociobiology/6b.htm

Living on our earth-sun-satellite today!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/121634.stm

So there is a lot of history to tell!
http://www.bananamuseum.com/

And it can be fun to tell it!
http://banana-jokes.allthejokes.com/


And using A:M you can do it yourself or together with your classmates to a world audience! And it is easy - just follow the four basic tutorials - and you can do something like this. Or better use your own imagination!

Something like this can also be possible to animate and lipsynch after doing the four tutorials - but it is not recommended as the first task...



The result can be something like this - giving some thoughts and feelings around genetic manipulation.

Hi! Seven

These tutorials are very useful and understandable for newbies .

It’s a hard work to do tutorials, isn’t it?

Do You have some tutorials in WINK about lighthing?, i.e. volumetric lights, projection maps, Lens fare, etc

I was looking for tutorials about lighting but I didn’t get nothing


Thanks in advance

JB

I think he mean 'lighting'instead of 'lightning'.

ET:s, UFO:s. Star Wars - are they coming?
Or is it only someones trying to frighten us - occupying our imagination - trying to get our money? Educators how shall they tackle this brainwash? Humor is perhaps the medication?

Having had a look on and hopefully having learnt something from: Four Basic Lessons to learn and teach A:M to tell stories on the WWW with lipsynch

YOU HAVE SIX MORE TO DO!!!

Learning a little more - getting something to practice yourself!!!
To tell your own stories - ANIMATING them - for the WorldWideWeb Public!

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How to make Guides for all subjects, ContinuationCourse to Four Basic Lessons
http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=15190
There is always a need for guides - to tell the story behind!
This guide is a continuation course to the Four Basic Lessons to learn and teach A:M:
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Lip Sync in Muscle Mode
http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=15215
Here you will learn how to lip sync a simple mask in Muscle Mode.
The tutorial is in four parts and there is also a project file.
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Lip Sync with a mouth bones rig
http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=15214
Willi - Wilhelm Landt - THE SOULCAGE DEPARTMENT -
has done a simple mouth bone rig you learn to use for some lipsyncing.
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Lip Synced Beak
http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=15213
A humorous one - beak syncing Leonardo da Vinci´s La Joconde-Mona Lisa
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President Lincoln LipSynched, Do it yourself tutorial
http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=15081
You can use some photo and lipsynch the person on the photo
having recorded some sound to use.
Here is an example on how ot lipsync President Lincoln!
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Jaw synced caricature, from a 911 Bush Joke in Hustler
http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=15248
Modeling a caricature you have to be very clever and lipsynching it will take some time. Here you will learn how to make it simple and fast! And you can tell your own jokes to a world audience on the Internet.
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