In this 3rd anime, new techniques were used, and I could take my ambitions a step further.

The plot:

Joe watches Astromant, as he tries to hypnose him with a pendulum. However, Joe gets caught by the red steel ball, and falls to the ground. Then a further accident happens: the cord of the pendulum breaks, and the steel ball falls on Joe and craches him.

Production notes:

Anime Studio Pro: use of ball motion, starting slowly, accelerating and reducing speed again. Synchronisation of Joes position with the interpolated red ball.

After positive responses to the first Bleiglass Anime, I started to explore and use more of the functionalities of Anime Studio Pro, see the production notes below.

The most amazing insights however came from reading this book I bought:

Wau! what a wealth of informations. After having been glued to teh first 60 pages, I went on to build “Joe Pinio im Buchladen”

The plot:

Joe stands in a bookshop, throws his speaking trumpet away, moves a step forward, plus on a cord, and the OPINIO book drops from the ceiling.

Production notes:

Anime Studio Pro: use of separate layers for legs and speaking trumpet

Photoshop: background and advertisement for the OPINIO book (amazon and libri)

iMovie HD: intro + clip + advert

Garageband: music track and sound effects

Duration: 16 sec.

My first steps into the world of animation

Having bought the software Anime Studio Pro from e frontier, I could not resist to quickly build my first animation. Having done not much more then browse through the basic tutorial section, the result is of course: simple and rough. Here the result:

This short Bleiglass Anime includes some movement and sound, and all 4 software I will be using in future projects have been active.The software used are:

Production notes:

Anime Studio Pro: the small orange character was build as vector, his name is Joe Pinio, and he is a mascot of a German blog OPINIO, run by a local newspaper, the Rheinische Post. Joe Pinio was boned to allow basic movement.

Photoshop: the background picture was produced from a photo.

iMovie HD: this Apple software was used to connect the Anime clip and the closing credit, to which a effect was added to make it look like a old film projection.

Garageband: this Apple software was used to add voice and a loop, kid (laughing)