Hi! I'm here to tell you about how I make animations!

RESOURCES

Script Writing - Google Docs

Voice Recording and Audio Editing - Audacity

Audio Consitency (Thing??? I dunno what to call this.) - The Levelator

Animation - Adobe Animate

Video Editing - Clipchamp

SCRIPTS

Step One: The Basis

Assuming you’ve already come up with your idea, it’s time to get to the basis of the story, ask yourself Who, What, Why, When and Where?

Who is the character, what are they doing, why are they doing it, when are they doing it and where are they doing it? Stories can be really good but when they don’t have any legs to stand on, they can fall pretty easily. So that leads me to my next step!

Step Two: The Structure

There are many elements for story structure but I’ll just sum it up in 4 parts, first we have the introduction. We are introduced to the character’s life and the character has some sort of motivation to do something. 

Next, we have the plot points which are the journeys and quests the character must go through to achieve their goal. 

Next, we have the climax which is the part of the story when the character fulfills their goal, this is usually the most exciting part.

Finally, we have the resolution which shows us what happened to the character’s life after their journey.

Step Three: Getting Ideas Down

When you have an idea for a parody or storytime animation, you have to write it down as fast as possible, we lose our train of thought often so if you have a really good idea, get it down as fast as possible! When you’re writing for parodies, people usually go for some elements from the media and exaggerate it! You can, however, add your own ingredients to the soup though and add your own twist to it! Stories have to be entertaining because if your story is boring, nobody would want to watch it.

Step Four: The Story Outline

Time four step four! Heh, heh, eh, we'll get to comedy later. Stories are like a sandwich and the bread is the story outline! You have your basic points of the story and, like a sandwich, you add more of the entertaining stuff, or whatever you want to put in a sandwich!

Make sure to follow the story structure I used to keep your scripts consistent! I recommend using as many bullet points as possible so you wouldn’t be stuck with what to write in the actual script.

Step Five: The Script

Next, write the actual script. You can do this by using your bullet points and laying them out in a story-like manner. Pretend that you’re writing an entertaining essay! One thing I should talk about is comedy! In humour, it follows a basic two step structure, the setup and the punchline. The setup is used to make the viewer think a certain thing will happen a certain way, then next, it’s the punchline. In the punchline, this’ll subvert the viewers expectations and this’ll lead to laughter! 

Next step, you need to get your friend to review your script to see if it’s good and maybe to that they can add their 2 cents. If you don’t have any friends, I’m so sorry.

VOICE ACTING

First, you need a microphone that you can input to your computer. You can also use your phone's voice recorder app! What really matters is where you record your lines! Like many storytime youtubers, they recommend recording in your closet! This is because is blocks out any echo and background noise! BG noise is very hard to remove in audio editing so it's better to deal with it first hand. Some youtubers recommend a Blue Snowball mic. If you have a bit of money to cough, you can also get a pop filter, this eliminated popping sounds caused by the impact of some fast moving air! In this case, it's "P", "B" and "F" sounds. I would recommend recording with Audacity if you have a computer.

AUDIO EDITING

Next, you need to edit the audio and set the audio to the places you want it to be. In Audacity, you should reduce the background noise. In the wise words of Gingerpale, "Highlight a flat part of the audio, go to "Effect", "Noise Reduction", and click "Get Noise Profile." Then, you're gonna highlight all of your audio by double-clicking it. And then we're gonna go back to "Noise Reduction" and hit "OK" this time." Then you can export your audio and drag it into The Levelator. The Levelator makes all of your audio sound consistent. This'll increase the sound of the quiets while keeping the sound of the louds the same.

ANIMATION

I'm too lazy to type down here so I'm just gonna like tutorials that helped me.

EDITING

You need an editing software to stitch all of your parts together! I usually use Clipchamp to video edit! I learnt how to use Clipchamp in less than 5 minutes! It's that easy! In video editing, you should add some effects for background music to your animation and SFX! I won't go too in depth to this since there's not much to go through but if you really want a video tutorial for Clipchamp, here's one.

UPLOADING

You can upload your animation now! Give it a good name and give credit to people that helped you make it!

FINAL STEP

Start over again.