Film School:Digital Puppets:Character Animation

Beginning 2008

This school is:: Wikiversity Film School - Narrative film production

This course is:: The basics of narrtive film animation with digital puppets

Lessons in Digital Puppet Animation Course
Introduction:	Introduction to digital puppets
Lesson:	Character animation with digital puppets
Lesson:	Scenery Generation
Lesson:	Compositing characters & scenery
Lesson:	Dialog recording
Lesson:	Film scoring
Lesson:	Film editing

Step #1

Making a movie with Digital Puppets

Once you finish the basic introduction to filmmaking course, then you can start to make an animated version of the short motion picture "Seduced by the Dark Side".

I will help you with each step. To make this easier for me, we will all work with the same materials.

Select from the following Digital Puppets

Percy and Son

Here is a single figure from 3D Universe which is ideal for this story.

Big Croc and Little Croc

Here is a single figure from 3D Universe which is ideal for this story.

Select from the following digital puppet animation programs

DAZ Studio is Free

DAZ Studio is free so that makes it the official program for this project

Poser

Poser is not free but it is a better animation program than DAZ Studio. But free is free so we will use DAZ Studio.

Next build a movie set

The next page

Next we look at the program for creating the movie sets Next Lesson Description

Contact your instructor

Your instructor for this filmmaking class is Robert Elliott. You can email me by clicking here.