Film School:Digital Puppets:Character Animation

Beginning 2008

This school is: Wikiversity Film School - Narrative film production This course is: The basics of narrtive film animation with digital puppets Lessons in Digital Puppet Animation Course Introduction: Introduction to digital puppets Lesson: Character animation with digital puppets Lesson: Scenery Generation Lesson: Compositing characters & scenery Lesson: Dialog recording Lesson: Film scoring Lesson: Film editing

Step #1 Making a movie with Digital Puppets Once you finish the basic introduction to filmmaking course, then you can start to make an animated version of the short motion picture "Seduced by the Dark Side". I will help you with each step. To make this easier for me, we will all work with the same materials.

Select from the following Digital Puppets

Percy and Son Here is a single figure from 3D Universe which is ideal for this story.

Big Croc and Little Croc Here is a single figure from 3D Universe which is ideal for this story.

Select from the following digital puppet animation programs

DAZ Studio is Free DAZ Studio is free so that makes it the official program for this project

Poser Poser is not free but it is a better animation program than DAZ Studio. But free is free so we will use DAZ Studio.

Next build a movie set The next page Next we look at the program for creating the movie sets Next Lesson Description Contact your instructor Your instructor for this filmmaking class is Robert Elliott. You can email me by clicking here.