Easy, Cheap, Animated Cartoon in 10 Minutes

Step 5 Put Your Animations Onto Youtube

I was messing with 'windows movie maker' (comes with windows), and I noticed a 'narate' button. use that to add voices/sound to your animations (once they have been saved as videos).
You can also use windows movie maker for basic editing (add effects, etc).
Alternatively you can download VirtualDub from download.com, it's free and allows basic video editing.

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Put your animations onto YouTube so people can watch them. There aren't many aninamtions by nonprofessionals on there at the moment, I hope this will change after this instructable.

Here are some excellent books on animation:
How To Draw Cartoon Animals
How To Draw Real Animals
Film Directing Shot by Shot
Script Writing etc

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Here are some short animations I did so far:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNh7j-9SER0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BJ4o4OTgE0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fp_z-fCI7Qg

http://youtube.com/watch?v=MhJ8UQTRwE0

http://youtube.com/watch?v=GivRAVP6oPg

Have Fun!

Comments

[Shany120]

Cool!

[neetz]

this is so neet! i do a lot of drawing and that is so cool that you can turn them into a acual short! the only thing i do different is that i use plastic paper(also called cel paper), just like the original cartoons. you can get it at like office max office depot in like a package of like 100 ,it is kind of expensive but it is worth it . sooooo cool!

[technoguy94]

Cool. It reminds me of a free program for the Nintendo DSi, Flipnote Studio.

[Whales]

 What you could do, they used to do this back in the old days, might be the 80s frame you talk about. Is that would draw the more same things, like background, static objects on wax paper, or see-though w.e then when you're ready for a shot you just lay the sheets over whats moving. that way you can actually keep things for later.

It's pretty obvious if you ever watch old scooby doo cartoons, the things that move are drawn with less detail and usally in slightly brighter shades.

[aenygma]

Wow. That's really good. Good job man. Nice instructable

[Kryptonite]

Rofl, i like the bear. nice instructable, u see 'ables n stuff on the net n none r really as detailed as urs, or shows how to get the software free

[nova364]

how do u get the cartoon animator do u download it

[leevonk]

uhm,...yeah look at step #1...

here's the link again anyway
http://www.giantscreamingrobotmonkeys.com/monkeyjam/download.html

[indyfitz]

Check out my home-made drawing light table and camera rig.. I had help building it, but it helped me create the first video animations for The Big Picture film.. I think it's great that this idea of home-made animation is taking off..

[brunnjon]

You might think about drawing on a light table. It would be brighter without the reflection. You could probably make one pretty easily.

[leevonk]

yeah, that's exactly what I started doing. I'm putting together a kit that will be for sale soon, it will have a light box among other things. I'll post updates here as things progress.

[theking]

finnaly somebody also dosen't use a logitech quickcam

[nlazer]

That was so cool man! You sure made this easier. I have been looking at doing this with other software, but I gave up with the higher learning curve...just not enought time in the day with work and everything else. I just want to know if there is a way to make it the screen a little clearer?

[leevonk]

just get better lighting, it's a little hard since the whiteboard is reflective, so you can't just put a lamp above it cause a big white spot will apear. So it's best to use strong area lights (like good room lighting) instead of very directed light.

[Harold]

Great job. I would also recommend pointing the lamp upward, having it reflect off a surface like a sheet of foil that way the light will spread more evenly, and perhaps you'll get less reflection of the whiteboard. Perhaps.

[leevonk]

hey, good idea, thanks, the glare was always an annoyance with me. Before, I had to move the white board to a certain area in my apartment where the lights wouldn't glare on it.

[pierlo]

man this is great!

[Rupert]

Brilliant. animation and tutorial. very well done enjoyed it a lot

[Fog]

nice animations man, and a gr8 tutorial!!!