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New Toon... Fish Abductions

Posted by NextToNothing - November 1st, 2008


Check it out =)
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/
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Anyone have any good ways to get rid of those microphone clicks? I got rid of maybe half the others were far too stubborn.

Was kinda fun to animate took me too long, 6-7 hours over the course of a week, most of that trying to get rid of the clicks in the audio. The whole concept was inspired by a Kathlene Madigan joke about how if we drained the ocean we'd find a million tiny little missing posters, she's a funny lady, you should check her out on youtube or something.
Not sure how much I like the script anymore I hope people get it, it might just be too subtle/boring the animation is a little lazy, but I didn't want to do some intense expressions and posing since I wasn't too into it. Oh well, it looks OK.

I enjoy doing these tiny little shorts, I hate doing all the voices, I'm not skilled enough to make em sound different and consistent ='(.

~Next Idea(s)~
Music Video to Radiohead
Very short Short I've had planned out for a while, just having trouble making the camera do what I want in it
1 other based on another Kathlene Madigan Joke

I'm also supposed to do 2 games with a friend... Hope those happen I like drawing for games.


Comments

the easiest thing is to seriously re-record the audio, everything else is a compromise of quality. you can edit the offending snippets (they're fractions of a second) but you'll also miss out on fractions of words and continuity. otherwise putting the volume of those parts way down, and fading in and out of the click can sometimes work.

Yah, I'm just a failure at figuring out where the clicks come from so when I re-record they generally just show up in another place. I tried to lower the volume and it definitley minimized the strength and abrasiveness of each one. I figure I'll just record over and over again until I get a take with as few as possible =)

pops are the sound of distortion, when the volume of the recording goes above acceptable levels. It often happens on plosives, like pronouncing "im-PLO-de", because there's a sudden rush of air when you breathe out and it gets picked up on the mic.

You can avoid it by recording further away from the mic, and speaking louder, or turning down the sensitivity of your microphone. If you're worried about volume you can always amplify the recording after you've said it, and doing that means you don't have to worry about working around pops.

The other idea is using a filter: if you don't have a pop filter, you can always improvise - something like a sock over the mic would work. GOOD LUCK!

Thanks for the advice I'll give those tips a whirl on my next project