How I Fixed Vista & Got Some Animation Time
I should have blogged about this when I fixed Vista, but I didn’t because it was 3am Tuesday Morning. Well, it still felt like Monday to me. *sigh*
I blew away Vista and just installed XP over top. Now my internet works like a charm, and things are hunky dory.
And the great thing is, while the machine was installing, I was able to get some animation in too! Huzzah! So I got over a hundred frames done on Monday night, and tonight, I got another 100 frames in. I didn’t tally the hours but I will when I finish this animation for Saturday.
You know what bugs me? I had Stop Motion Pro, version 4 and it would keep track of the hours I spent. It was a cute little feature. Stop Motion Pro Version 5 doesn’t. Well, maybe it’s because I have the “Junior” edition, but still, why take away something like that? There were 3 or 4 ‘editions’ of Stop Motion Pro 5. They’re up to version 6.5 now, and I think 6 or 7 different editions. I hate that. It’s just so confusing.
I don’t like that about the whole “Home, Professional, Business, Ultra-Ripoff” versions of Windows either. I don’t mind if it’s just TWO different versions. Lite and Professional. That’s fine. When you get to three or more, I just want to leave dead bunnies at your door.
Animating is going semi-ok. I’m getting into the groove in thinking in 24 frames per second, it’s just hard to do slow movements. I wanted to do a slow double take, but I can’t go slow enough in 24 fps.
And it doesn’t help that my stikfas are still kinda stiff around the joints. I was using the old Maggie from the Fight video. She was falling apart. Her legs and arms would just pop out of her joints. So I got the new one that Rastasia.nl gave me and built her from scratch. But now I have a hard time turning her head, or making it nod without moving the whole body. Ah well, she will loosen in time. I think I have about 20 seconds of video now, and it only took me about 3 hours. *sigh*
If anyone tells you to do stop frame animation as a hobby, just slap them before they can even get to the next word. Tell them I gave you permission.
