Monday 26 January 2009

Moviestorm



We created this animation using a program called Moviestorm. We started off, knowing very little about the program, and had to create a short film using it. It started out quite hard as, even though tips and help is given, very few people decided to use it and we just went straight on and started to create. the first problem we had was that textures just appeared black, no matter what settings we changed or turned on/off, nothing would happen. Then Matt turned around and showed us how to fix it and we were off. After a little while of messing around, we decided to create a very short version of Terminator. Obviously we were quite heavily restricted to what we could do, but i was very surprised about the amount the program could do, and the amount of options you had for various things. One of the main problems we encountered was, as you will notice if you watch, the mouths didn't move. We tried as hard as we could but we couldn't get the lips to sync with the words. This, we decided, was quite a trivial problem, and not worth wasting our time over so we went on and finished our film without moving.

Another problem most people had, was that when you get a certain amount of props/people in your film, the computer starts to slow down, this is far worse if you have another program such as media player/iTunes playing in the background, so the program uses a large amount of your computers power. From this i concluded that the program is very good, providing you make a short film or don't use much stuff in it. It also probably isn't worth using any other programs on your computer because it will be too slow. other than that, it's alright.

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