Here at Caliosg Television, we love seeing people getting creative. But alot of people think it's very expensive creating a animation or video. Really you can make one and publish it for next to nothing.
Animaking
Animaking is basicly making an animation (I don't think it's a real word) All you need to make an animation is a computer, imagination and time. Usually on all you desktop and laptop computer you will get a free program that is called Paint. (For Windows XP & Vista) You will also get a free program called Windows movie maker. All you need now is plenty of time. As you can see if you watch Mr Merve, it has been created using paint. Then it is processed with Movie Maker and sound is added along with credits.
First you will need an idea. Create your characters or main animation. If it is going to movie you need to save each slice of a second. E.G If Mr Merve waves his arm we have to sve a new pictue with a diffrent number or name every time he does the slightest movment. Once all of your images are created you will need to insert them into Movie Maker. Do this by inserting all the pictures you created then zoom in on the timeline. Each picture need to last on the scren around 1/6th of a second. Any thing longer your animation may begin to look badly put together. Cartoons on telly usually are around 12 pictures a second. The more pictures in a second for an action the better. However this does take alot of time. Once you have put all of your pictures into place add any sound to it. I.E if someone throws something add a wissle sound to make your animation look funnier and so on. If someone speaks add narrative sound to it so that you can ehar what that person is saying. Make sure your audio is along the same volume or ells people will fed up having to turn the volume up and down.
Once you have done all this you can publish your video. For maximum detail I recomend publishing it in a 720p hd format. However the default one is usually fine.
Good Luck :)