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Which reminds me ... if those who are participating could please record yourself saying your characters name and send it to me, it would help make it all work better. Oh, and now is the time to change the name of the character if you want it to be different than the ones I have for them now (in case you don't want the user-name connected to the character). MP3 or WAV formats are fine, but OGG is the best if you can. The recording of the name being said can be simple or spiced up with some personality if you want. Just make sure it's the same voice you will be doing your part of the script for.

Just discovered my mic isn't working. May be a few days before I remedy that situation.

Okay, I have a few touch ups on the models to do anyway, so it's not like it's going to be ready for audio tomorrow. :razz:

Mainly I just want to know what the characters will sound like so I can animate their personalities to match better.
 
Which reminds me ... if those who are participating could please record yourself saying your characters name and send it to me, it would help make it all work better. Oh, and now is the time to change the name of the character if you want it to be different than the ones I have for them now (in case you don't want the user-name connected to the character). MP3 or WAV formats are fine, but OGG is the best if you can. The recording of the name being said can be simple or spiced up with some personality if you want. Just make sure it's the same voice you will be doing your part of the script for.

Just discovered my mic isn't working. May be a few days before I remedy that situation.

Okay, I have a few touch ups on the models to do anyway, so it's not like it's going to be ready for audio tomorrow. :razz:

Mainly I just want to know what the characters will sound like so I can animate their personalities to match better.

A little bit of a southern drawl with a rich deepness that makes non-asexual women melt in their CFM boots and wet their panties.
That's what I was told by the Simon Cowell anyways.
 
[YOUTUBE]fLM7EE3OuVk[/YOUTUBE]

Alright ... I have gotten this far ... LOL .. almost ready for the full animation.
 
Okay, I am going to work on the intro ... not sure exactly what to do for it. The final script for this episode is posted, just need the voices please so I can setup the character actions. Still don't have an official name, but I will just call it "Digital Politics" for now, maybe I'll be inspired soon.
 
*curtsies* Thanks for the ego boost. I am figuring out a lot of fancy tricks and such. Would you believe that is only the second animation I have EVER done?
 
*curtsies* Thanks for the ego boost. I am figuring out a lot of fancy tricks and such. Would you believe that is only the second animation I have EVER done?

No, I can scarcely believe that!

But we are both learning. I'm trying to figure out how to record v/o in some format you can actually use! Somewhat less advanced than your self-tutoring, but a journey of 1000 miles must begin with a single step! :lol:
 
*curtsies* Thanks for the ego boost. I am figuring out a lot of fancy tricks and such. Would you believe that is only the second animation I have EVER done?

No, I can scarcely believe that!

But we are both learning. I'm trying to figure out how to record v/o in some format you can actually use! Somewhat less advanced than your self-tutoring, but a journey of 1000 miles must begin with a single step! :lol:

Well, I can actually convert any format, but MP3 is the most compressed, WAV is the mid ranged but not as clear, and OGG is just ... well ... the "PNG" of audio, very well compressed without much loss in quality. But I can find a codex for any of them to convert myself. Windoze recorder I think defaults to WAV, but they may have added MP3 encoding recently. If you have an MP3 player, most of them can record in WAV or MP3 as well. I carry mine as a portable audio notepad instead of a music player now.
 
*curtsies* Thanks for the ego boost. I am figuring out a lot of fancy tricks and such. Would you believe that is only the second animation I have EVER done?

No, I can scarcely believe that!

But we are both learning. I'm trying to figure out how to record v/o in some format you can actually use! Somewhat less advanced than your self-tutoring, but a journey of 1000 miles must begin with a single step! :lol:

Well, I can actually convert any format, but MP3 is the most compressed, WAV is the mid ranged but not as clear, and OGG is just ... well ... the "PNG" of audio, very well compressed without much loss in quality. But I can find a codex for any of them to convert myself. Windoze recorder I think defaults to WAV, but they may have added MP3 encoding recently. If you have an MP3 player, most of them can record in WAV or MP3 as well. I carry mine as a portable audio notepad instead of a music player now.

The animation looks great, by the way!

As for the audio...I don't have a mic. The only way I can record (right now) is to record my voice on my MP3 player and then save the WAV file.

Do you have any suggestions for mics for the computer? What kind would give the best quality and how expensive would they be?

And how does one record OGG file? Would I need special software?
 
No, I can scarcely believe that!

But we are both learning. I'm trying to figure out how to record v/o in some format you can actually use! Somewhat less advanced than your self-tutoring, but a journey of 1000 miles must begin with a single step! :lol:

Well, I can actually convert any format, but MP3 is the most compressed, WAV is the mid ranged but not as clear, and OGG is just ... well ... the "PNG" of audio, very well compressed without much loss in quality. But I can find a codex for any of them to convert myself. Windoze recorder I think defaults to WAV, but they may have added MP3 encoding recently. If you have an MP3 player, most of them can record in WAV or MP3 as well. I carry mine as a portable audio notepad instead of a music player now.

The animation looks great, by the way!

As for the audio...I don't have a mic. The only way I can record (right now) is to record my voice on my MP3 player and then save the WAV file.

Do you have any suggestions for mics for the computer? What kind would give the best quality and how expensive would they be?

And how does one record OGG file? Would I need special software?

For the mic ... I have an old (ten years almost) little portable one that cost me 5 bucks, cleaning up audio isn't that difficult now, just adjust the sensitivity in the software you use so it's mostly your voice that's picked up. The software used to record may or may not, Linux defaults to OGG format, but Windoze likely still defaults to WAV, when you record it stores it in a buffer then when you save the file you can choose what format to write it in. As I said, the format isn't that important, I can still work with WAV files, just have to remember to filter them a bit and smooth out the wave form before I splice it to the video. If you have the preset values available set it to high or medium quality for best results. 48000 is a good sample rate if it has numeric settings. A WAV file at that rate will be big, but if you use Wnizip and archive them (or 7-Zip is recommended freeware) it won't make a difference.
 
Well, I can actually convert any format, but MP3 is the most compressed, WAV is the mid ranged but not as clear, and OGG is just ... well ... the "PNG" of audio, very well compressed without much loss in quality. But I can find a codex for any of them to convert myself. Windoze recorder I think defaults to WAV, but they may have added MP3 encoding recently. If you have an MP3 player, most of them can record in WAV or MP3 as well. I carry mine as a portable audio notepad instead of a music player now.

The animation looks great, by the way!

As for the audio...I don't have a mic. The only way I can record (right now) is to record my voice on my MP3 player and then save the WAV file.

Do you have any suggestions for mics for the computer? What kind would give the best quality and how expensive would they be?

And how does one record OGG file? Would I need special software?

For the mic ... I have an old (ten years almost) little portable one that cost me 5 bucks, cleaning up audio isn't that difficult now, just adjust the sensitivity in the software you use so it's mostly your voice that's picked up. The software used to record may or may not, Linux defaults to OGG format, but Windoze likely still defaults to WAV, when you record it stores it in a buffer then when you save the file you can choose what format to write it in. As I said, the format isn't that important, I can still work with WAV files, just have to remember to filter them a bit and smooth out the wave form before I splice it to the video. If you have the preset values available set it to high or medium quality for best results. 48000 is a good sample rate if it has numeric settings. A WAV file at that rate will be big, but if you use Wnizip and archive them (or 7-Zip is recommended freeware) it won't make a difference.

How do we get this file to you? Email?
 
The animation looks great, by the way!

As for the audio...I don't have a mic. The only way I can record (right now) is to record my voice on my MP3 player and then save the WAV file.

Do you have any suggestions for mics for the computer? What kind would give the best quality and how expensive would they be?

And how does one record OGG file? Would I need special software?

For the mic ... I have an old (ten years almost) little portable one that cost me 5 bucks, cleaning up audio isn't that difficult now, just adjust the sensitivity in the software you use so it's mostly your voice that's picked up. The software used to record may or may not, Linux defaults to OGG format, but Windoze likely still defaults to WAV, when you record it stores it in a buffer then when you save the file you can choose what format to write it in. As I said, the format isn't that important, I can still work with WAV files, just have to remember to filter them a bit and smooth out the wave form before I splice it to the video. If you have the preset values available set it to high or medium quality for best results. 48000 is a good sample rate if it has numeric settings. A WAV file at that rate will be big, but if you use Wnizip and archive them (or 7-Zip is recommended freeware) it won't make a difference.

How do we get this file to you? Email?

Email would be best, it's on the script site at the bottom.
 
Woot! I have started rendering what I can without the audio script ... The final draft of the opening for the first ep. Tiger Bob, your character is perfect, the voice fits almost too well. This is moving along well actually.
 
This is odd, but I am liking my second script better ... well not odd really. The first episode of any cartoon is usually an introduction more than anything, so yeah. Also, the second one will be more true to what I was thinking about when I got the inspiration. I really wish raytracing wasn't so processor intensive, I need a second computer soon, one to do the rendering while I do the designing on the other. LOL Guess I'll put that on my wishlist.
 
After a bit more tests I have determined that WAV or MOV sound best, but WAV files are still huge. Found out MOV is Macs media format, and I can convert it myself so no need to worry about that.
 
After a bit more tests I have determined that WAV or MOV sound best, but WAV files are still huge. Found out MOV is Macs media format, and I can convert it myself so no need to worry about that.
WAV files are huge, I can convert any sound file to mp3 if that's helpful in any way.
 
After a bit more tests I have determined that WAV or MOV sound best, but WAV files are still huge. Found out MOV is Macs media format, and I can convert it myself so no need to worry about that.
WAV files are huge, I can convert any sound file to mp3 if that's helpful in any way.

MP3 works most often, but most common recorders use WAV, MOV, or OGG. I don't have a character for you yet, but I can write you into the next script since it's not done. I was thinking a bat, for various reasons. Or an owl.
 
After a bit more tests I have determined that WAV or MOV sound best, but WAV files are still huge. Found out MOV is Macs media format, and I can convert it myself so no need to worry about that.
WAV files are huge, I can convert any sound file to mp3 if that's helpful in any way.

MP3 works most often, but most common recorders use WAV, MOV, or OGG. I don't have a character for you yet, but I can write you into the next script since it's not done. I was thinking a bat, for various reasons. Or an owl.
How about just a masked Wombat?

But anyhow, if you have any sound files which you want converted to mp3 for any reason, hit me up in PM.
 

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