Monday, 19 November 2012

How to make a sketch movie

For those of you who have asked how to make a sketch movie like the one in my Initial thoughts and feelings post, here it is:



I couldn't put my phone in this photo as I was using it to take the picture. :P

I put my phone on the tripod and used it to film me drawing on the whiteboard using the pens. I then used windows movie maker to:
  1. Flip the movie around (it was filmed upside down)
  2. Speed the movie up (by about 4 or 5 times)
  3. Add a filter to make it look a little more cool.
  4. Add the sound track 
It was actually that easy! It was just an idea I had a while ago after watching a sketch movie made by a professional artist and some super cool technology (graphics tablets and fancy animation software).

I hope you find this useful. If you need to know anything else, then just ask and please send me a link if you create a sketch movie. 
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8 comments:

  1. Unknown20 November 2012 at 02:13

    Fantastic, I'm going to give it a go! Another way to do something similar, but totally non-manual is using "jing". Thanks Kyle, Cheers, Angela (I used to live in Bothwell)

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  2. Unknown20 November 2012 at 11:45

    Great idea! thank you, Kyle!

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  3. Bartonferry21 November 2012 at 02:58

    Hi Kyle
    What filter did you use by the way?

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    1. Kyle Bettley21 November 2012 at 13:47

      Hi Sally,
      I used the 'edge detection filter' :)

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  4. Bartonferry22 November 2012 at 06:45

    Thanks so much for this, Kyle.
    I have had a play (am not yet ready to share the result but will do so soon).
    They are really nice effects combinations :)

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  5. Elena Sher22 November 2012 at 07:37

    Thanks for explaining it, Kyle! It doesn't sound very complicated and looks so cool! I'm going to share it with my students. They like things like that. And I'm going to try, too:)

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  6. Anonymous18 December 2012 at 19:43

    Thank you for sharing your process. This is terrific!

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  7. Nick Hood27 January 2013 at 15:27

    Thank you Kyle. This is very helpful - I have been thinking about the simplest way to do this and you seem to have it sussed.

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