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anyone done any motion comics from using daz animations?

DrekkanDrekkan Posts: 460
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I was planning to do some motion comics using some daz animations I would save to gif format or whatever format needed. Can anyone who has perhaps used any of this sort of motion comic software maybe tell me the best one to use? I am after something fairly simple to use and reasonably priced with just straight forward abilities to add gif or whatever other format needed to add animations from recorded Daz clips converted into whatever needed format.

I considered getting 'comic life' as I liked the setups they had to create comics with speech bubble and border effects and so on but sadly it doesn't appear they are geared towards using any motion comic abilities or whatever  which sucks as the program is very simple and would had been ideal.

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  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,261

    I have not because I am not sure what you are talking about.  Is it like regular comics but animated instead?

  • DrekkanDrekkan Posts: 460

    yeh you know gif images that move in like a 3 or 4 second animation usually... its those in the comic frames where normally a still pic woudl be.

  • MazhMazh Posts: 495

    There are a lot of whatevers in your first post, but I guess your final product should be a gif with speech bubbles and the animation should be done in Daz smiley

    If I'd like to do something like that, I would render my Daz Animation as an image series (Daz offers jpg, tif, png and bmp format) instead of a movie (only avi possible).

    Then I'd use some image editing software (Gimp is freeware) to create speech bubbles and backgrounds for my image series, comiclife should also work for that.

    After that create a movie file, personally I'm using virtualdub (freeware) and then I'd create the gif itself from it, Instagiffer is also freeware.

     

  • kaotkblisskaotkbliss Posts: 2,914
    edited November 2018
    Mazh said:

    There are a lot of whatevers in your first post, but I guess your final product should be a gif with speech bubbles and the animation should be done in Daz smiley

    If I'd like to do something like that, I would render my Daz Animation as an image series (Daz offers jpg, tif, png and bmp format) instead of a movie (only avi possible).

    Then I'd use some image editing software (Gimp is freeware) to create speech bubbles and backgrounds for my image series, comiclife should also work for that.

    After that create a movie file, personally I'm using virtualdub (freeware) and then I'd create the gif itself from it, Instagiffer is also freeware.

     

    Sounds like a pretty good workaround :)

    Step 1: render animated sequence in Daz Studio for each panel that will appear on the page

    Step 2: create a page in Comic life with your panel layout

    Step 3: Take the first frame of each animation and place them in the appropriate panels in the first comic life page

    Step 4: Add your speach bubbles and text to each panel

    Step 5: save out the page from Comic life as a jpg or tiff image

    Step 6: leave the speach bubbles and text but remove the images

    Step 7: add the 2nd frame of animation to each appropriate panel

    Step 8: save out the new page as jpeg or tiff (use a number or letter at the end of the image name so you don't overwrite the previous page)

    Step 9: repeat steps 6, 7 and 8 until you have completed all frames of the animations

    Step 10: use a gif editor to compile all Comic life pages into a single gif image.

    Step 11: repeat steps 1-10 for the rest of the pages in the comic

    Step 12: use some sort of game maker or programming language to create an app that will let the user flip back and forth between finished gif pages

    Post edited by kaotkbliss on
  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 40,081

    sounds like something Powerpoint could do

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 40,081
    edited November 2018

    cheapest easiest is do a Youtube video with slideshows, captions and animations 

    using anotations you can even make an interactive playlist

    Post edited by WendyLuvsCatz on
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