Nice. Well, thanks. Guess I'm more comfortable now with moving on to the other scenes.
As a side, if you export a raster layer from Photoshop into AS and the photoshop's layer is at say, 50% opacity in photoshop, the .PNG layer in AS will still have the same 50% opacity, but it will read 100% opacity for the layer. If that makes sense. What I'm saying is that I exported a 50% opacity layer from photoshop then couldn't get it back to 100% opacity in AS because it was already at 100% opacity in AS.
Mikdog wrote:What I'm saying is that I exported a 50% opacity layer from photoshop then couldn't get it back to 100% opacity in AS because it was already at 100% opacity in AS
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Great tip -- thank you!
You can't have everything. Where would you put it?
hm ... hm ... I liked the version before better. Think of the whole thing: you will need some way to boost and exaggerate later in the track, so why waste your extremes right at the start? Build slowly.
(There's a voice track on some DJ Shadow album where he's asked "Why are your faders not on 100%" and he explains "You don't start at 100% because maybe later you'll get a track which is very silent, so what will you do then?" - "Aaaah - I see ...")
Still lots to do. Don't know if I'd be better using ToonBoom for something like this, but AS seems pretty capable at the moment, thanks to its switch layers. Man, gotta love those switch layers. Also I use the scale layer tool quite a bit holding down ALT, which scales in proportion. Only remembered that when I read it on these forums a while ago, I think from a post from you slow.
Kind of labouring the point here, but I reckon if I can just nail one or two shots in the beginning, then I'll have a good idea of what to do for the rest of the vid.
Hm. About continuity: fish grabs phones and makes an "o" mouth. Next shot should start with that "o" for one beat, then switch to grin. Don't waste a change in expression in a cut - do the cut first, the change of expression a bit later.
I think when you're finished with everything you could add two seconds of silence in the beginning, an establishing shot showing the fishbowl on a table, so the audience knows where it is.
glad you put the other eyes back with teh funky backgrounds lookin' good.
I think the "O" should change to a smile the last beat before the cut, rather than after the cut... also after the cut, the mouth could be more open and goofy? just a thought... you know, maybe with a tongue hanging out that shchlops to the beat as well hehe.
i agree with the establishing shot when you're done... that would look good... could you put the track title over that too...?
