Desktop filmmaking has become easier over the years.

You need a PC or MacIntosh, depends on your preference, and Video Camera definitely helps. As for computer or cell animation, you don't need a camera, but can try new format with a camera.

Animation softwares are necessary for sure to put all things together. Minimum is Adobe Premier or Macromedia Flash, and Adobe Photoshop is also necessary for touch-ups. And what else? Your idea, energy and time.

Flash has made online streaming and animation much easier once you finish up the animation sequences. With Flash, you can produce highest quality animation. Premier gives more option, but you can't complaint even without it.

Digital and Video Camera help us make much easier than ever before. You can take a sequence of shots with a camera to animate it or can just use video camera.

What I'm trying is, I take shots with a camera and touch it to integrate with hand-drawn backgrounds and objects to finish up the shot. Animating a people is really difficult and I'd rather take a shot of myself to simulate the action and compose with the animated computer generated images. As most of my animation career spans within 3-D modelling and architectural visualization, I'm more interested in working on inanimate objects.

That might not be the highest quality animation, but the idea should live through.

In doing so, basics of traditional filming and animation survives: storyboarding and framing a people in the picture.

(October 17, 2002)