Okay /r9k/ I need some advice.
I am trying to make a "movie" but it's really just a series of still-image frames with sound effects, maybe voice over narration, definitely original music I am working on writing.
The story is crazily long and involves a lot of battles and what not. Think something like Lord of the Rings or Avatar.
Basically it'd be one frame shown every five or so seconds, kind of like a comic book being shown in series.
I am trying to decide between using:
pixel art
> advantages: I can somewhat make up for my terrible drawing skills.
> Disadvantages, it has to be done entirely on the computer and is tedious to produce, and also lacks detail.
Or thumbnail drawings on index cards
> advantages: can work on during classes / whenever, more detail
> disadvantages: has to be scanned in and colored, and I am not very good at drawing.
I will post both to see what you prefer. Also drawfag thread I guess.
http://imgur.com/a/pU7O0 <--- album of some of the pixel art, I'll post the thumbnail drawings in a second.
Okay and here's a few of the thumbnail drawing (partially colored and I won't use stickmen when I redraw them:
http://imgur.com/a/XTh7r
Basically I draw them on half-size index cards or maybe full size index cards. Ink them, scan them in, set contrast to 100% and fiddle with brightness for line thickness. Then color them in MSpaint.
I am tempted to go with pixel art but it's just so tedious and it's also hard to enlarge the pictures without anti-aliasing (have to do it in MSpaint with selector tool then realign the border because regular enlarge just makes it blurry).
But anyway it's really a matter of which you prefer. I know I'm not very good at drawing but I want to make a visual story out of this in addition to the giant novel I've already partly written so feedback would be nice.
>>27371648
This one. The 2nd style.
What is a good program to extract sound from a video clip?
>>27371648
2nd, but get some shadowing in there
>>27371681
youtube-mp3.org will take a youtube video and turn it into mp3.
>>27371757
Will do. Thanks for the advice.
>>27371648
depends on the themes of the story as to which will fit best
theres an insane amount of free high quality art which is CC0 here:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
which you could use...
>>27372164
True. I don't know how much of that I would use but I will look at it. thanks.