animation research

 hi guys!

When my class and I were introduced to this project, the first thing the teacher said was "don't do animation if you are not experienced", of course its understandable because animation takes so long and it takes a lot of patience and time for it to actually be good. On my last blog, I talked about two ideas I had for the CCR, but the one i'm going to talk about in this blog is the drawing idea. In the example I gave, the original Youtuber drew everything on a white board.

I like better the idea of animation and adding an image of a hand moving to create the feeling of the hand drawing on the board. The thing is animating it would be ten times harder but i still decided to do research and give it a try.

I watched this Youtube video called "How to create a whiteboard animation in one day"  

 

He started the youtube video saying that if you wanted to create an animation videos like his in one day you needed 10 hours and 29 dollars. I can split the 10 hours because i dont need to finish it in a day but 29 dollars??????????????????????? 

I still gave the video a chance to see why i need to have 29 dollars, turns out the software he uses called VideoScribe has a 29 dollars monthly payment if you want a good quality video and no watermark.

There's nothing I hate more than watermarks but that still doesn't mean in going to pay for this software for a 5 minute video and then never use it again so i kept investigating for other softwares that could give the same service but for free or at least cheaper. You can use Canva to create a whiteboard explainer which is great because i do have that app and i would only have to add drawings made in my iPad instead of animating the whole thing. Mango Animate is another software that does good quality whiteboard explainers videos for free but this option may take a little bit of more time. 

A few weeks before I turn in my project I will officially decide what i'm going to do....if I risk it doing the animation, if I use canvas or if I keep it simple and draw everything on the whiteboard. I believe any of the three options are good but i KNOW my teacher is not going to like the idea of me doing animation for one of my videos.