How to: Create your own AVI Cartoons

Step Four: If a tree falls in a forest with no one . . .

If a tree falls in a forest with no one around, does it make any noise? The answer, of course, is yes. And so will your movie. I created the music for the video by combining two different sounds using Creative Lab's Wave Studio, but how you get the sound track is your choice. The one I created is called Fanfare.wav and is included in the MEDIA directory of this package.

You will now need the program Sound Producer or something similar. Soundtrack Producer is a small Freeware program that has basically only one purpose, to add sound to videos. Downloading instructions for Sound Producer can be found by clicking on DOWNLOAD above. You use this program to combine the silent movie with the sound clip.

When you save them together, you have finished your first animated cartoon!    Cool Huh?

Please note: This tutorial assumes that you are familiar with the process of creating the original artwork. This is not a guide to using graphics programs.