philebus
Hi folks,
I’m here to ask a little help from the experts. First of all, I’ll explain what this is all about. I’m learning to use two animation programmes, one 2D and one 3D. I thought that a good project to learn from would be to create a series of programmes for You Tube, teaching some of my favourite tarot games.
However, given that the likely audience will only know tarot for fortune telling and occult associations, it makes sense to first introduce people to a little history. And this is where you come in. I'm a card player, not a historian and so I need your help.
The first thing I have to get sorted out is a script, once that is recorded it is going to be set in stone. What I would like to ask of the experts here is any input they can offer on this draft. This is going to be the first introduction many people will have to tarot as a card game, so it is important that I get it right – if I’ve made any big errors, or there is something you feel needs to be added or that should be said in a different way, please do let me know. I would also like to include some illustrations, particularly of the Malmuk cards, artworks featuring a Female Pope, and shame pictures. If you know of anything that would not be a copyright issue, I would be very grateful.
Once the script is finished, I can get to work on learning more of the animation process (I've worked with 3D for still images before but this side of things is a little new to me). I’ve managed to work out the lip synching but I’ve still got to learn about non-linear animation to start integrating gestures and expressions. Ultimately, I hope to have a cartoon lecturer standing or sitting to one side of the screen, with a display board on the other in a mock TV studio.
In scripting this, I have had to keep in mind the goal of the film, the likely audience, and the limits of my computer for rendering the animation. Once I’ve done the work of creating the animation, my computer will have to work hard while I’m away. I have decided to aim for 10 minutes running time at the most. I estimate that my computer can render 3 frames a minute at an OK-ish quality. Keeping to 24 frames per second, it works out at 14,400 frames, which will take my computer 80 hours to render. Leaving it to render while I’m at work means it could be doing about 7 hrs rendering a day. As I’ll need to use the computer during weekends, this means it will take about two and a half weeks for the computer to churn out the final film.
I’m here to ask a little help from the experts. First of all, I’ll explain what this is all about. I’m learning to use two animation programmes, one 2D and one 3D. I thought that a good project to learn from would be to create a series of programmes for You Tube, teaching some of my favourite tarot games.
However, given that the likely audience will only know tarot for fortune telling and occult associations, it makes sense to first introduce people to a little history. And this is where you come in. I'm a card player, not a historian and so I need your help.
The first thing I have to get sorted out is a script, once that is recorded it is going to be set in stone. What I would like to ask of the experts here is any input they can offer on this draft. This is going to be the first introduction many people will have to tarot as a card game, so it is important that I get it right – if I’ve made any big errors, or there is something you feel needs to be added or that should be said in a different way, please do let me know. I would also like to include some illustrations, particularly of the Malmuk cards, artworks featuring a Female Pope, and shame pictures. If you know of anything that would not be a copyright issue, I would be very grateful.
Once the script is finished, I can get to work on learning more of the animation process (I've worked with 3D for still images before but this side of things is a little new to me). I’ve managed to work out the lip synching but I’ve still got to learn about non-linear animation to start integrating gestures and expressions. Ultimately, I hope to have a cartoon lecturer standing or sitting to one side of the screen, with a display board on the other in a mock TV studio.
In scripting this, I have had to keep in mind the goal of the film, the likely audience, and the limits of my computer for rendering the animation. Once I’ve done the work of creating the animation, my computer will have to work hard while I’m away. I have decided to aim for 10 minutes running time at the most. I estimate that my computer can render 3 frames a minute at an OK-ish quality. Keeping to 24 frames per second, it works out at 14,400 frames, which will take my computer 80 hours to render. Leaving it to render while I’m at work means it could be doing about 7 hrs rendering a day. As I’ll need to use the computer during weekends, this means it will take about two and a half weeks for the computer to churn out the final film.