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Post by WZW Animations on Apr 14, 2020 23:16:34 GMT
Where to begin? I'm back to animating at a regular schedule on YouTube and decided to join an animation board. To answer a question I get regularly, I am THINKING of starting up a monthly full show special, because doing a weekly full show would be a real pain and contradict my full time retail job. I've also made a Ringside Collectible purchase of some accessories that I've lost or on need of replacement. Glad to know that I've got some active support here, besides the toxic people that I've came across and tried to troll me out of the animation community. I will keep on doing what I do!
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Post by arw on Apr 14, 2020 23:49:48 GMT
Where to begin? I'm back to animating at a regular schedule on YouTube and decided to join an animation board. To answer a question I get regularly, I am THINKING of starting up a monthly full show special, because doing a weekly full show would be a real pain and contradict my full time retail job. I've also made a Ringside Collectible purchase of some accessories that I've lost or on need of replacement. Glad to know that I've got some active support here, besides the toxic people that I've came across and tried to troll me out of the animation community. I will keep on doing what I do! Glad ur here man. Excited 4 you to compete if u choose to |
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Post by ESP on Apr 15, 2020 14:40:01 GMT
Good to have you here, hope you compete here, would love to face you at some point!
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Post by WZW Animations on Apr 15, 2020 15:31:01 GMT
Good to have you here, hope you compete here, would love to face you at some point! Same here lol |
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Post by WZW Animations on Apr 22, 2020 19:04:00 GMT
Just to give a couple of small updates on my channel.
I have figured out my motion blur issue, as stated by ESP in his Top 5 Weekly videos. It was the focus feature from my camera. I tinkered with it after the HBK Entrance video and made an improvement, I believe.
I made an adjustment and addition to my tripod rig for aerial maneuvers. Hard to explain, but makes the photo process much easier.
I switched from clear fishing line to solid black sewing string for aerial moves. It knocks down several minutes to half hour of string editing. Adjusting the Brightness/Contrast and pan and crop helps with any missed string spots
I upgraded from Sony Vegas 13 to Sony Vegas 17 Pro. Besides the new tools and whatnot, it's not that much different from Sony Vegas 13, from my first experience so far. But, still experiencing serious software or hardware lag.
The best way I can describe it is when you pick a frame from the video project, it takes a minute for the selected frame to load on the preview window. It is hard to sync in audio in the right spots of the video. I think it has something to do with making my pictures 1080p quality, rather then 720p or 480p. I want my videos to be High quality and refuse to tone down the defination, unless I get pissed at it enough.
Due to the on going pandemic, my Ringside Collectibles orders for hardcore weapons and such is still pending. Hopefully there isn't any hardcore moves I'm tempted to animate.
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Post by WZW Animations on Apr 28, 2020 0:51:02 GMT
Small update here, my ringside order came in today. 27 piece barricade set, 20 chairs, 6 tables, and a 10 inch thick ladder. Hopefully these will be used in future animations.
Also placed an order for 3 more ladders. All three are 10 inches, but are thinner (most likely Jakks ladders?). Also ordered something else for a match type that I'm gonna implement in future shows/matches...X
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Post by WZW Animations on May 19, 2020 5:45:59 GMT
Howdy folks! Just a quick update tonight. I am officially in the market to get a better pc for editing my stop motions. My lap is officially on its last leg of doing the required task I want it to do. When photo editing string out, it works fine. Converting the pics into a gif, however, I set the frames to the desired speed and place the gif into Sony Vegas Pro 17, render it, preview it on a video player, It is either fast or way too fast. If I managed to pass the gif making stage, Oh my Lord, Sony Vegas is much slower. I get all my video and audio files in the project and I go to a certain part of the video, 2 minutes of load time for that frame to show up (I even set the preview screen to the lowest quality possible). I spent 3-4 days on the Sony Vegas part of editing alone on my recent video for my channel. Here's to hoping I can find a solution to this problem. Otherwise, I might be on a hiatus
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Post by WZW Animations on May 24, 2020 8:17:33 GMT
Howdy guys! Just a minor update on my next video. This next video upload will feature two videos, call it a two part project. The first video is gonna be a "Making Of", where I take you from start to finish on making a WZW Stop Motion Video. The second video will be the finished product. I've been buying add-ons to my arena set up and spray painting accessories, steel steps, cages, ladders, tables, etc., to have that authentic look. Now that I'm basically prepped up for this to happen, I can also hope for a good outcome and get some subscription and view boosts. Last time I made "How to Make homemade turnbuckle pads", that got over 1K views or so around the 2 year period, since it's upload. Fingers crossed as I make it happen!
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Post by WZW Animations on May 31, 2020 4:51:41 GMT
Welp, tonight my laptop has officially died. Time to find a better desktop, onenthat doesn't freeze while moving around sony vegas to edit my animations. I dont know how long I'll be out of the animation game
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Post by WZW Animations on Jun 2, 2020 5:04:22 GMT
Hey, just gotten my hands on a desktop. Configured the settings and now redownloading all my editing software and hopefully nothing is harmed on my USB flash drive, where I keep all my stop motion sounds and etc. Costed me about $350. its a 22 All-In-One HP PC. Don't wanna go through all the specs of the hardware, but hopefully this is worth it.
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Post by WZW Animations on Jun 4, 2020 2:07:53 GMT
Great news! I have all my editing software installed and running on my new pc. So, time to animate something! Hopefully I won't run into any more road blocks along the way
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Post by WZW Animations on Jun 8, 2020 6:20:13 GMT
I've come to a decision. I am gonna animate a 1 night 16 man tournament to crown a new and first ever WZW Heavyweight Champion. This might take me a bit to animate and also cost me some spots on the WAF Rankings. The wait might be worth while
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Post by ESP on Jun 8, 2020 12:45:36 GMT
I've come to a decision. I am gonna animate a 1 night 16 man tournament to crown a new and first ever WZW Heavyweight Champion. This might take me a bit to animate and also cost me some spots on the WAF Rankings. The wait might be worth while Sounds awesome! And if you’re taking a break from shows for a bit, that’ll make your cash in even more surprising 😂 |
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Post by WZW Animations on Jun 9, 2020 1:20:15 GMT
I've come to a decision. I am gonna animate a 1 night 16 man tournament to crown a new and first ever WZW Heavyweight Champion. This might take me a bit to animate and also cost me some spots on the WAF Rankings. The wait might be worth while Sounds awesome! And if you’re taking a break from shows for a bit, that’ll make your cash in even more surprising 😂 Right! and I was talking about not uploading weekly for the Top 5 spots lol. I am gonna have some major catching up to do. I am currently mixing and rendering titantrons and entrance themes for the 16 wrestlers I have in the bracket. I've also made the bracket into a private video. Just to see if the picture quality is good for video. Took alot of time looking up and typing out names using my favorite text font. I might share the bracket to 1 or 2 people. Also note that I've used a randomizer to determine the matches. Was planning on a regular 8 man tournament, But 16 sounds more fun and a bigger opportunity to for bigger names. |
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Post by WZW Animations on Jun 25, 2020 6:40:25 GMT
Hey everyone, long time no update (Almost 2 weeks?). I've been taking a little break from animating and doing gaming streams recently. It was fruitful in someway, but it only brought out negativity towards my channel. EFW (Elite FIGHTING WRESTLING) popped into my channel and started some stuff with other viewers in the stream. It was hard for me to pay attention of what was going on, seeing I was playing an action and stealth oriented game, spam and begging was happening and one of my moderators placed him on timeout. The next day, I started the second part of the stream and EFW did an obvious single letter spam I caught and I timed him out for 600 seconds. Once the 600 second timeout expired, he started repeatedly saying "Sorry", "Don't put me in timeout", and etc. in all caps. I've decided to hide him from the channel, for the time being. And so happens he made up a "league" of his and automatically threw in a handful of animators, some who have/had no knowledge they're a part of it. I've promptly declined and asked to be removed from the "league". Then, he stated that I "Don't like him because the color of his skin", basically (low key) calling me a racist. I had no clue of his race and I am absolutely not a racist. He made a comment on one of my streams about it and another comment on his "league" video. I was caught off guard and disgusted that he pulled a "Race Card" on me. Not only I, but a few more people are getting fed up with the shenanigans of his. But, I'm only concerned about my channel and my reputation. If I don't want to be in a contest or league, but put into it without knowledge or approval, I have to step my foot down on it and remove myself and defend myself. On the third part of the stream, EFW's "Twin Brother" popped up on my chatbox saying that people are being mean to him and why am I mean to him? I'm not sure of the details of what was said, I was playing a game after all. Then, I suddenly remembered that EFW stated that he has a brother and threaten another Youtuber that his brother can hack into the Youtuber's account and delete it or whatever. I finished the entire game on my streams and I'm wondering to myself "What has Youtube come to?". Not only the site is changing, but especially the animation community as well. Kids making hack threats for retaliation, sounds like the old Youtube...But, it is over something so trivial that it's really making me sick and worried about my channel.
I know this is a mouthful and I apologize for it. But, I just have to come out and say it. I am taking a heavy thought of terminating my channel and finding a new platform, if there such thing, to upload my content on. Here is the problem with that though. I'm sure there will be a same problem as this somewhere else and will not change. But, I am taking a big step, if I go through with this decision.
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