Here is something I put together with my kids for some fun. It’s still in concept stage right now so everything is pretty rough, especially the animation and the Green Screen Keys (I just did one click keys on everything).
What I’m hoping for from the community is some quality constructive feedback on the overall concept and the overall idea. After looking at things I will reshoot the 4 handheld shots at the beginning so they are locked down. The shakiness does not add to the overall story and only serves as a distraction IMHO.
Again, I’d really appreciate any feedback out there from the community, and I look forward to working this project down and refining everything once I get the big picture questions settled.
concept is great and the kids will love doing it, keep going forward and stuff will refine itself as time goes on, don’t go back and redo, that’s pointless. Do the next scenes. As far as your kids are concerned, they already think this is way better than Star Wars. In my opinion, I think it is as well. Don’t be a Lucas and go back and redo, forward forward forward!
Agreed! You should go forward, I also do vfx scenes with my daughters as actors. I often mess up things but I post them anyway and go to my next project. Green screen is a pain, I always have trouble with it, I just spent 3 weeks rotoscoping a video almost frame by frame because my lighting was awfully too bright. The result is not good at all but I’m still gonna put it on Youtube, and move to the next idea. Keep entertaining your kids and you’ll get better on the way!
Thanks you guys for the words of encouragement. Joze, I’ll definetly keep that in mind. I actually do compositing and filming (etc) for a living, but this is the first thing I’m really trying on my own away from work. I just wanted to see if people liked the overall idea of what I was doing before I went a head and actually keyed everything (because I think we both know how long that really does take).
I’ll keep shooting some new scenes and refining these that are already here.
What do you guys think a good length for a project like this would be?
What about using the Toon Shader on the CG objects in these scenes, it’s obviously a departure from the typically realism that everyone seems to strive for, but hey lets face it, there is very little about a project like this that has to do with realism.
Thanks again for the great advice and words of encouragement guys.
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I’d say no more than 5 minutes episodes for a youtube broadcast. After a few episodes if you have enough views, maybe try to make longer ones. But the Youtube viewers are not the kind you can ask to sit even 10 or 15 minutes in front of something new to them.
If you really wish to get views, you’ll actually need more “social net-work” than “real work”, the idea is to have as much people as you can to see the first contents and like and share it.
If the videos are being made for YouTube broadcast and the intention of capturing an audience and making ad revenue, then the episodes need to be about 10 minutes, as the YouTube algorithm does not work in favor of ads for shorter videos. They don’t reward based on number of views, they reward based on length of views, which means animations on YouTube are a dead end for money because it is impossible to output them fast enough to work with the Youtube algorithm (unless you trepanimate), and why videos like Top Ten lists and boyfriend/girlfriend prank stuff are dominating the site. This video https://youtu.be/Gi6FcI2wFrw has a good explanation should you be interested in generating an audience for revenue. BUT if you’re just doing it like a family album for friends to watch over the years, then don’t worry about length.