Anatomy and Art

So I was working a little with Photoshop and DVD Studio Pro today to come up with a good looking DVD screen menu for the upcoming animation.  I’m not sure that I’m quite sold on it yet, but I don’t think it’s bad either.

The red is what the button will look like selected or clicked.  The white is what it will look like unclicked.  I don’t actually have a Spanish language version yet, but I do have an initial translation from having run all of my narration dialogue through Yahoo’s Babblefish translator online.  Unfortunately, my Spanish is so poor that I can’t tell if it’s making sense or not.  But if I can just get a few fluent Spanish speakers to look it over for me, I could at least solidify the script, and then it’s a matter of recording that new track, and laying that audio in under the animation for a 2nd version.  I would probably want to tweak the animation a little for that version just to make certain movements time to the appropriate words as they do in English, but it’s certainly not out of the realm of what I can do.  If I have to narrate it myself in Spanish it might not be the prettiest, but I still think even then it would still be worth making.  I suppose if nothing else, I could at least offer Spanish subtitles, and then no one would have to hear my American accent, but especially having read so much about the power of sight and sound combined in education, I’d hate to have people reading the text while they are watching the images and not hearing the words.  I guess I’ll just have to see what winds up being possible as it comes.