Thread: Animated Tutorials

Education team...let's get to work.

So I think it would be extremely helpful (and entertaining) to have a few of our tutorials animated. Like...flash walk through animations that would allow someone to get a feel for what it might be like to experience some aspect of LDing. Some people, like me...are visual learners and would greatly benefit from this.

I was trying to think what would be the most beneficial to present in an animated format. This is where I can use your guys' help. Maybe we can pick one that we want to do and start from there.

Some ideas, from what most people have questions about:

An animation of the stages of WILD
Animations exploring issues with dream control:
like increasing clarity, stabilizing the dream, flying, etc.

Any others you guys can think of that people have a hard time understanding or executing. Personally, I'm leaning towards starting with the WILD animation since we seem to have the most questions about that.

That's the spirit!

Originally Posted by Aquanina

That's the spirit!

That was priceless.

I just had an idea of making an awesome cartoon about it and putting it on newgrounds, then at the end linking to here.

does any1 know were i can get macromedia flash cs3 for free?

@ Xandier, does it have to be legal? Lol... Joking.

Originally posted by Aquanina
That's the spirit!

Hahaha. ^^^^^

Great idea, Nina. I know absolutely shit about animating on the comp. Never even made a flash movie, but if I can think of anything that might help out, conceptually (word?) I'll post it.

Allright. A great Topic. It's been a while but off course it came from you Aquanina. Bright mind.

It sounds alot like the SaltCube DVD-movies.
It could be much more helpfull than all those long sheets of text.

A spoken voice, sometimes assisted with written words for certain acronyms and phenomena-names and with some imagery to explain certain hard to explain just in words-topics.

I would like to see a couple of these animated Tutorials of:
- Enhancing DreamRecall
- WILD and modified/enhanced WILDs
- MILD and modified/enhanced MILDs
- Inducing SP and complete "weightlessness"
- Loose Techniques for staying aware and focussed for longer periods of time.


If only I had proper hard and software I would like to animate a few things myself that I wish to explain, But I will have to wait untill I bought my new PC.

Those are some good topics, Ska - I'm going to be working on a piece for the 61-point relaxation technique. Of the topics here I found that one to be the one which needs the most visual aid. If you have ideas on how you'd like to explain the ones you listed visually, let me know - I'd love to help.

Animated 61 point technique - comments, suggestions, etc?

Nice job on the animation. Helps me remember it much better! Although visualizing it in the form of a female body may be a bit distracting for me lol...

Originally Posted by Tornado Joe's profile

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I can tell! Awesome job.

I like how the points are broken down into sections and how you suggest to visualize the points balls as of energy and then being transfered from point to point. I think it's important that personal experiences/suggestions from experienced lucid dreamers find there way into learning tools like these. It gives the user something more to think about and try.

Originally Posted by Tornado Joe

Animated 61 point technique - comments, suggestions, etc?

I try to follow your link (http://mywebpage.netscape.com/joeatag/misc/61Point.html) but it displays:
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You realize you created a zombie, right?

And it's not even on topic...

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