4/23/09
Friends, forgive me for not being able to respond to your great comments and messages for all this time. I fear that I no longer have time in my days to make stop-motion videos and answer all my youtube mail. Its just not possible now for me with all thats going on in my life right now, perhaps someday that will change. I've watched many of your videos and you all can make great stuff. Keep watching each other's videos and making your own, there are also many other animators out there with much more skill than i who may assist you, but i've also created a group with tips etc that you may join. I can't keep up with it but my hope is that you guys can help each other out on it, and don't forget to also browse the web for answers to your questions. Here's the link:

http://www.youtube.com/grou...

Hopefully you will find information here helpful. I will try to show up on youtube when i can, though that may not be too often.
I will still receive comments and messages via my email notifications, so what you write to me will be read, even if i can't respond. I appreciate all your comments and messages, they've been great.
See you guys around, I'll do my best to stay in touch when i can.


i am including the answers to the most popular questions (sound, effects, and program) below and under the description of all my stopmotion videos.

the website i got most of my sound effects from was:

http://fan-files.com/soundb...

(make sure that there is no space between the "k" and the "e" in "soundbunker," youtube keeps putting one in there and it causes the link to not work.)
this site has a lot of effects from star wars games, as well as other stuff. This is where you will find the clone voices (under Republic Commando)
another good site for star wars is:

http://theforce.net/fanfilm...

This has some other sounds that might be useful.

This site has very useful stuff as well:

http://www.dockingbay101.com/

i used to make my videos using the simple Apple iMovie program. All the videos made from 2007-2008 and "Clones Move Along" were made with this program. The rest of the 2009 videos and the 2010 ones were made with Final Cut Pro, a program I am now learning to use.

The original "colored orb" blaster effects were made by altering the "Starshine" effect which appears in some versions of iMovie.

The new laser/lightsaber effects were made with a program called CrimsonFX.

"Star Wars" is property of LucasFilm and obviously not me.