I'm in a highly creative mood. I'm actually pulling out my sketchbook and everything. I've found that with school out, and being unemployed that I'm incredibly bored, and feel the need to do things that feel fulfilling, like creating things. I'd VERY much like to tackle some 2D animation this summer. I'm also going to try to attempt to do maybe a few comics. I need help though. There's still so much I don't know, but I need to start knowing soon. I'm not getting any younger, and I'm tired of being stuck.

So first question. I want to know if anybody knows of some freebie computer programs for download for 2D animation. Back when I took ONE animation class, we did the whole page flipping drawing on every paper thing. It was lots of fun, and I love it. I would practice what I learned at home except for lack of certain technology and supplies to my access. I have a peg board. I'm still figuring an inexpensive way to punch holes in paper. The other is, at this school we had a camera set up that took a shot of each of the page we drew, and compiled it all together into an animation to be recorded on video tape. Does anybody know of a freebie computer program that does something similiar? I need something that will take a series of pictures that I scan into my scanner, and compiles them together into an animation. Remember I have NO budge right now, it has to be free.

As far as my comic question is concerned, I never took drawing comics seriously. It's hard work, and I always wanted to animate more. However, it's been brought to my attention it might be a good way for practice. What I'd like to know is how you go about even beginning to make a comic. What size should it be, and how to compile panels, and what fonts to use. All the technical stuff. I can mentally storyboard how I'd want each pannel to go pretty well, but how to make all the pannels on each page look aesthetically pleasing, interesting, but still functional is a different story.

So yeah, if anybody has answers, lemme know. It'd be much appreciated!

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My Permanent Journal Intro/Disclaimer

Hi, if this is your first time here, then yeah, you're learning something new about me...if not, then you probably know me pretty well by now, and really shouldn't have to read this, but you might anyways just for fun, or because you're bored. This is all stuff concerning me artistic-wise.

Art Thieves
I don't like them, and they should stay away from me because I can be mean. Honestly I really truly try to be a forgiving kind person, but there are some things I will not tolerate. Do I try to handle them in a reasonable fashion? The answer is yes, but in some cases it's usually after I make a huge horrific fuss. So essentially, art thieves, or just thieves (people who steal credit, or don't give credit at all, out of maliciousness, for another person's achievements.) who mess with creativity in general had better not be stealing nothing here. Those are one of those things I do not tolerate, and if you push me, it won't be hard for me to get downright mean.

Styles And Mediums
I don't just draw. I write, dance, sing, play a musical instrument, and will gladly pick up on just about any creative outlet I can get my hands on. Drawing, story telling, and mostly character creation are my main three creative specialities. That is why I aim to run my own animation studio someday in my life. I cannot settle on just drawing a character, but I must create a history, and even a storyline for them as well. If my musical abilities were a little more up to par, I would even go so far as to write music for my own stories, AND even do the character voices if I could manipulate my vocal chords to change drastically! I'm very personal about it. This leads me to my next subject.

My Characters
Each and every one of them is an individual. They are my brain children, and if you have ever heard me having a conversation with someone else about one of them, you would think I was talking about real living beings that could live nextdoor to me for all you know. For all intents and purposes, I try to seperate myself from them enough to believe they ARE real living people, (or animals, elves, furries and various other things in the case of a lot of my characters.) Have I lost grips with reality? No, I'm just creating a seperate one in which I can retreat to. Thus I want you to remember, my characters have morals, and do things I would absolutely never do. My lifestyle is seperate from theirs. Yes, some of them do reflect some of my personality traits, just as a child will have habits and behaviors similiar to their parents no matter how hard they try not to. Some of them actually succeed too. The same is said of my characters. Example---> So, if Zorian is behaving badly, I don't want it as a bad reflection on me...anyways, he half belongs to Scott, but I'm sure Scott doesn't want to be thought of as being like Zorian either. Lol! Thus, that's why there's jokes about Zorian being our illigitimate brain child.

Swear Words
I don't cuss in real life...with the exception of three words, hell, bastard, and @$$. There's a few words I also use which some people may find offensive, but I don't really rate them up there with really bad words such as the F word. Have I uttered these horrible words?....your answer is yes, I'm guilty, but they are few and far between and usually nobody hears it. I try to keep my story telling as tasteful as possible. That's my style. Remember, my characters have morals I do not condone, but as a story teller, I will include some of their habits so you can become associated with this being I want to portray. In case you haven't noticed, my writing style consists of putting curse words in with symbols. For example...that @$$ up there at the beginning of this paragraph. It's quite obvious what the word is, but I sort of display it differently. The F word is done like this F*** or.....just a random curse word can be like this !#%&#!!!! Another thing I consider tastefully done is I will not hide the fact that characters have...intimate moments, but you will never see the actual intimacy written out by me. I will type up the scene leading up to it, but in my opinion it's nothing worse than a PG 13 rated movie. [Example (making up random names here): Bob kissed Julie tenderly whilst he layed her down stroking her hair gently, and they enjoyed one another's company.] Blah blah blah mushy stuff....yuck! It will most likely fade in to the next morning and then I'll move onto a MUCH MORE INTERESTING scene where they fight ninjas! Yay! Ninjas!

Final Note
I put all this stuff why? Because I don't want to scare people away lol! I have been teased for being very religious, and then recieved appalled expressions for some of the things in my stories, or funny thoughts, or scenarios I have. I simply wanted to explain it. I just want to point out another story writer who is of the same religion as me who has characters that behave much differently than what we're taught religiously: Orson Scott Card. Lastly...the bible isn't G rated either...so there!

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