Music:
Lights, Sound, Action! But the lights and the action are nothing without sound. Even silent films had somebody named Carl on the piano.
So what to do about music for your animation? Many students just grab any CD that they like and slap it on their animation.
Oft Repeated Dialog:
Student: I have this great song for my animation!
Me: Who owns the song? Do you have the rights?
Student: I own it, I bought the CD. So can I put it on my animation in this lab?
Me: It is physically possible but not legally possible . . . (See my rant in the copyright section)
Show up at an animation festival with a film that has music that you haven’t procured the rights to and ASCAP or BMI will impound your film and will write you a nice big fine.
That means you need the rights to the tunes you use. Or you need works that are in public domain.
Oft-Repeated Dialog: (continued)
Student: How about classical music? That has got to be in, you know . . . they have been dead for years!
Me: The WORK is in public domain but THIS performance is not, and on and on and over and over.
Where to get tunes that you have the rights to? Four sources:
Music Buy-Out:
The Music Buy-Out concept is a good one for a low-end animation studio. You buy the rights to use the music when you buy the CD.
The Music Bakery is the main player in this field.
Disks are about $99 each but they have a $59 sale a couple times per year.
A lot of the tunes are of the corporate presentation variety but they can be changed around. Since they have gone on the Internet they have added downloadable sound effects and beefed up their sound track music.
Their early disks are in an early CDA format and are hard for a lot of software to recognize. The last disks I got from them are in WAV or MPEG formats and are very easy to use.
They also have a web site where you can demo and buy tunes 24-7.
CLICK for Link
From: Animation on a ShoeString (tm) & copyright 2001-2007 Larry Loc
So what to do about music for your animation? Many students just grab any CD that they like and slap it on their animation.
Oft Repeated Dialog:
Student: I have this great song for my animation!
Me: Who owns the song? Do you have the rights?
Student: I own it, I bought the CD. So can I put it on my animation in this lab?
Me: It is physically possible but not legally possible . . . (See my rant in the copyright section)
Show up at an animation festival with a film that has music that you haven’t procured the rights to and ASCAP or BMI will impound your film and will write you a nice big fine.
That means you need the rights to the tunes you use. Or you need works that are in public domain.
Oft-Repeated Dialog: (continued)
Student: How about classical music? That has got to be in, you know . . . they have been dead for years!
Me: The WORK is in public domain but THIS performance is not, and on and on and over and over.
Where to get tunes that you have the rights to? Four sources:
- Contact the artist and ask
- Music buy-out
- Music creation software
- Starving Musicians
Music Buy-Out:
The Music Buy-Out concept is a good one for a low-end animation studio. You buy the rights to use the music when you buy the CD.
The Music Bakery is the main player in this field.
Disks are about $99 each but they have a $59 sale a couple times per year.
A lot of the tunes are of the corporate presentation variety but they can be changed around. Since they have gone on the Internet they have added downloadable sound effects and beefed up their sound track music.
Their early disks are in an early CDA format and are hard for a lot of software to recognize. The last disks I got from them are in WAV or MPEG formats and are very easy to use.
They also have a web site where you can demo and buy tunes 24-7.
CLICK for Link
From: Animation on a ShoeString (tm) & copyright 2001-2007 Larry Loc
posted by Larry Loc @ 8:34 AM
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