As the saying goes: “Your results may vary.” But one lucky guy credits ProAnimator for starting the journey, which ended with him finding his true love! Daryl Young, from Mad Cow Films, considers himself primarily a video editor but wanted to expand his business. He added ProAnimator to his toolbox and got rave reviews from his clients, an edge over his competition, and he found love. Here’s how it happened.
“I was given a challenge to help a company look bigger than it was. I thought I could help them by giving some life to their logo, and maybe boost the entertainment value. I had never done animation in my life, so I was looking for a 3D program I could use. I did some research and I saw the demo video of ProAnimator and of course I was sold straight away!”
“The first animation was easy, that’s where I learned the art of animating an individual letter or character. I learned about the timeline and keyframes. By the way the behaviors in ProAnimator are brilliant. It made my imagination very easy to achieve.”
Take a look at Daryl’s first animation here.
“The second animation was more of a challenge. There is a lot more movement with every character, and getting the characters to appear like they are reacting with the others. I found a lot of thought had to go into the characters. I had to think like that character and feel how they would move.”
Watch Daryl’s second animation here.
“The third animation was the hardest; it involved multiple camera angles and camera animation. I planned it out carefully; story boarded it to see what the main frames would look, and to see if I could do it. But in the end I conquered it. I feel pretty much invincible. If I have an idea, I can set it in motion. ProAnimator has made me look better than I really am, for which I’m very thankful. Thank you Zaxwerks.”
Watch Daryl’s third animation here.
ProAnimator made it very easy for Daryl, to achieve professional work without hours of training.
“The tutorials helped me understand other aspects of image creation, even with Photoshop, a program I was convinced I knew a lot about.”
Daryl has now enlisted ProAnimator to do logo designs in Illustrator and Photoshop, He also uses it on Final Cut and Motion.
“I love the workflow, it’s always quick. I can save my movies with alpha channels; I can change text that has already been animated. I can make adjustments on the timing and resolution very quickly, and I love the fact that I can send previews within minutes to my anxious clients, although I actually wait before sending them, as I try to make it appear that I spent a fair bit of time on it…naughty huh!”
“Thanks to ProAnimator. I can let my creative juices flow, and experiment with different ideas, without the long hours and fuss. But what I love the most is that it’s very profitable.”
And then there’s the love angle. Because of his venture into the new world of animation, Daryl found the girl of his dreams. During production, he realized he needed a voice for the “characters” in the animation. He put out a call and found Erin who captured the spirit of the animation and captured Daryl’s heart too. They didn’t meet face to face until after the project was over, but soon they did meet, began dating and eventually got engaged.
Daryl is a very, very happy guy these days. “You just don’t know where ProAnimator will take you.”
This is a great story and I know it’s true because he was at my place when he asked her to marry him………on Facebook where they met. Dary also did my movie and also shot a clip with Danny Glover. Danny and Daryl are good friends now. Maybe Daryl can do an animation for Danny’s film company!
Daryl is an amazingly talented man and his creative brilliance is evident in all his work….right down to the amazing proposal he had for me!
Oh wow! I am so happy to see that the Cinderella of our love story commented on our blog!…So how did he propose?
It was a beautiful, meaningful, funny, romantic video he made while at Ken’s home that touched my heart and made me cry and of course say….Yes! He posted it on Facebook which is where and how we meet. Here is a link to the video he created about our first meeting when he stepped off the train here in Michigan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSXeuB-ZZFU
Thanks Erin! Now to live happily ever after
That’s awesome. Thanks for sharing! This story is the talk of our office. It almost seems somewhat of a fairy tale especially with the painterly picture of you guys.
Just out of curiosity, was someone filming you guys when you first met?
As I was on the train for about an hour before arrival I was sooo very nervous, i went to the bathroom, to fix my hair clean my teeth, freshen my breath, iron out my face from any sleep wrinkles, inspect the nervous pimples, my heart was racing. I was standing at the door with my bags 5 mins before the train arrived. The train conductor thought I was excited just to get off the train and I told him I was meeting mygirl for the first time. the train stopped he looked down the station and saw two females in a distance, he helped me off with my bags. at this point Erin didnt know it was me as there were about 20 of us getting off, I managed to get my bags across the tracks onto the platform and just ran towards Erin. then she realized that it was me and started running to me. I saw her mother trying t oget out her flip camera, but I wasnt waiting. we finally embraced for the first time in the light rain laughing & crying and didnt let go for about 15 minutes.
I proposed a little later when we were again seperated over facebook. here is the proposal http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=183081371563
im going to do another edit so you can se her reaction, her mother filmed her while she was watching it.
Erin came with me to Australia for Christmas and now she is home in Michigan while my visa application is being processed. Its been approved just a US embasy interview and things I have to do here first so hopefully we will be reunited forever soon.
When we were in Australia we had a friend of Daryl’s named Nadia Masot Ziegelbauer, who is an incredible photographer do a photo shoot with us. Since the beginning our story has been that of a fairy tale and Nadia thought this was perfect for us. She is awesome. http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=134906&id=519908817
That night on the train platform I will never forget!
You have all been so wonderful, thank you.
That’s a very beautiful story. It’s really heartfelt. I’m very happy for you two!