Does Van Aken (and other clays) go stale or does it last forever?

Or if it did go crumbly would melting it and letting it set again help?

MTS you are back! You forgot BLENDER!

yes, because ttb is a master and CGI comes naturally to him!

jk ttb

i,m getting a bit confused so which is the best clay in the uk

newplast

most animation programs have lip sync huh? anyway, when I'm animation lip syncs I just listen to in when I animate and go on feeling

yeh, the good old fashioned way!

what to you mean

new avatar again P&P, looks good

and red, they mean that they listen to the sound and guesstimate how many frames it would take to say it.

thanks alot P&B

welcome you lot!

Mark the shark, if we're getting into CGi, (I try to use stop motion as much as possible but I also make games) then I heartly recomend Animat8tor

http://www.anim8or.com/

Also there is Vue 7

can anybody recommend some good sketching pencils?

here DS99 : http://www.artifolk.co.uk/catalog/graphic_and_sketching_pencils.htm

thank you!

this is the type of pencil i use http://site.xara.com/news/october06/img/pencil37.png

:P

I prefer to use anything between 2B-4B pencils for sketching

does anyone know of a website were you can get free sounds aka dog bark car horn

http://www.soundsnap.com/

ya, soundsnap is good but you only get so many sounds a month

I will tell you a cheat! Get the program audacity and record the sounds, you get as many as you want

huh? so play the sound and record it through my microphone?

and my computer that has a mic doent have internet

Is soundsnap free?

I think so, maybe snoop around there webbie for clues!

yes cc, but you have to register first to download songs, unless you use GLB's method i think

http://www.findsounds.com/ this is ok for sound effects

Im making a animation or going to anyway.
Who knows where you can get a green screen or get some scenes and how to put it on camera?

here's a good article about green screens. http://stopmotion101.blogspot.com/2008/12/stop-motion-how-to-achieving-chroma-key.html

c3g what is my method???

werent you the one that said use Audactiy and then something else?...

guess im losing it!

No, I said that

aw, sorry bout that.

could you explain how P&B?

Explain what?

how to get more than 5 songs a month

Ok,

First things first,

Download a prgram called Audacity ( its free! )
:http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/

Then go to soundsnap
:http://www.soundsnap.com/

Find the Sound Effect you want but DON'T play or download it.

Go back to Audacity and go to: Edit, prefrences and make sure the drop downs are shown as: Microsoft Soun Mapper - Output, Microsft Sound Mapper - Input and on channel 1 mono, then click ok. Make sure the Dropdown in the top right hand corner is turned to sterio mix.

Then press the record button ( the red circle ) and go to Sounsnap, play the Sound you want to save, wait for it to finish and then go back to Audacity. Press the stop button ( the orange square ). Then play the sound back to see if it had worked.

When you are happy with it, go file, save as WAV and then it is on your hard disk.

If it is not working, still need help or if you want to know how to use a microphone on it, get back to me as quick as you can.

Hope I helped

P&B

lol P&B the criminal

ahhhh, PC mackintosh will be on to me!

lol youre to late P&B run!

AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

you are an awesome person P&B! thank you so much

ill secretly tell PC that it was me, so i will get in trouble instead, lol

lol, thanks!
Great to hear I helped!

you are always helpful P&B!

thanks

Wow its nice to read the article, i lov it

hi can anyone give me any info on how to make sets (inside) look really lifelike.

you can get acserrores,such as tables,chairs,tv's,plates,cutlery,at a dolls house shop. for wallpaper you could use wrapping paper,and add a few hand drawn or printed out pictures on the wall,and voila,you've got a not bad set.

thanks alot cracking toast
can anyone tell me how to make outside look really life like (wood land forest)Also how do you create water in a set ( a pond )

Phew! Well if you have one maybe you could use a bowl fill with water and decorate the outside with real or fake stones and fake grass!!! Outside hmmmmmmmmmmm You could film outside but if its raining maybe take a photo when the sun is shining print it at you're local shop with photo printing and if you take a fairly big photo it could be used as a background using somthing to keep it stable at the back
Good luck!!!!!!!

Or you could paint the colour of you pond in you scene then lay cling film over it this you could even animate slight ripples

wallace295 idea of laying stones (& gluing) around the pond would be good as this would be a way of holding down the cling film