Adding Bones

[heyvern]

Hold on one second...

I have friends and family who can barely figure out how to get email and this guy sets up a Youtube account and uploads movies.... that fast?

My brother asks me all the time how to set up a youtube account...

"Yo, Vern, how do you set up a youtube account?"
"I did it once. They have instructions you know."
"yeah, I just thought if you did it once you could give me pointers."

Old people are basically just scared of technology.

Great animations by the way. Keep at it!

-vern

[mkelley]

Old people are basically just scared of technology.
-vern

Um, I resemble that remark.

As an old fart who used to live life on the bleeding edge, I will say that not ALL of us are scared of technology. Just remember that it's a little easier for folks who grew up with at least a remote control to deal with new stuff than folks to who turning a dial on a TV was about as high-tech as anything they ever had experience with.

Now my mom (in her 80's) is about as computer literate as anyone who isn't a programmer -- so the temptation to paint everyone with the same brush just don't cut it. But I will give you that someone who was playing with a computer keyboard before they hit preschool is going to have a leg up on just about anyone my age (or older) <bg>.

[carynjac]

This is Caryn (the mom). Thanks for you help with David, he was so excited to see his videos on You Tube. We don't allow him on You Tube (thank you SlowTiger for telling him to ask me first).

He actually put all four of them together in IDVD and added dialog and burned a DVD, I have no idea how to even try to up load that

He's having a ball and went to bed telling me that first thing in the morning he wants me to check the posts to see what you all thought of his videos.

Thanks!!

Caryn, mom of a fascinating kid!!

[heyvern]

Old people are basically just scared of technology.
-vern

Um, I resemble that remark.

As an old fart who used to live life on the bleeding edge, I will say that not ALL of us are scared of technology.

I forgot to put the "wink" in.

The younger generation have soft squishy brains. When you throw stuff on one of those soft squishy brains it sticks better. Older people have a hard crusty coating over their brains... like an M&M candy. You have to throw stuff at it really really hard to get it to stick.

I remember years ago a coworker brought his 4 year old son to work. He was happily pounding away on the keyboard, and drawing with the mouse in photoshop. We were standing behind him chatting... and...

... I looked at the screen and was startled. He had found a key board shortcut in photoshop I never knew about.

"John. Did you see that?"
"Yeah"
"Did you teach him that?"
"No."
"What the heck?"
"He plays with photoshop at home. He must have found it himself."
"Uh... tell him to do it again and watch the keys he presses this time."
"Yeah. We need to write that one down."

-vern

[slowtiger]

After 15 years of daily Photoshop use I still don't know all the shortcuts - why should I, I don't use all of its functions?

The youtube account clearly said it was Caryn who set it up.

I have some experience teaching animation to kids in workshops, but they were a bit older usually, around 12. I used to do it with an old Bolex 16mm camera, the film stock was black&white, I developed it during the night, and the result of the workshop was screened right in the big cinema, with the children in front row - boy, were they proud!

As I said, there's several workshops in Germany touring around at festivals and everywhere who introduce children to animation, even younger than 6 year olds. See http://www.trickboxx-festival.de/ for an example. It's just a video camera and a PC with a framegrabber software.

[Darramouss]

Hey there, David. I thought your animations were pretty cool. I liked the third one the best.

My nephews and nieces aren't too creative. No, check that, they can be creative when they want to be but like most kids their age that I've come across they mostly don't want to spend the time to actually make something when they have their Nintendo DS or Xbox 360 at hand. When I was a kid, (you all have permission to groan there), whenever my Mum asked if I wanted anything I would always ask for pencils, paper, sticky tape, glue and felt-tipped pens. Wish I had Anime Studio when I was young.

[carynjac]

Good morning this is David. We'll email more when I have finished some more of my Lenny animation. Yesterday at cartoon camp (www.cartooncamp.com) I found out about a really cool website, you go to google and type in line rider. then go to the flash program about 1/2 way down the page. It was lots of fun.