Hey ya'll, I'm starting my final animation and it's gonna be in charcoal. There's a girl in a rocking chair and the room that she's in will be in charcoal. Is there any way that I can do this without having to redraw the background in every page? Some people have suggested Adobe After Effects but I don't have much experience with the program. Any ideas?
question about animation technique
By jennie marie | Friday, September 24, 2004 at 9:35am
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question about animation technique
I saw a charcol animation at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. I can't remember the name of the artist (or the piece) but it was absolutely one of the coolest things I've seen.
It looked to me as if he (and I think he might have been from South Africa) had simply drawn each shot/scene using charcol and reworked the medium for each frame, shooting each frame as he went. Some of the actual drawings were on display and they were of pretty good size, like 48" wide. My guess is that he just left the drawing mounted, left the camera mounted, and got the frame shots as he contintued to work out the drawing. I suspect he may have done some rough animation on another medium to get the planning and timing down, but I truly have no idea.
It was one of the cooler things I've seen. Hope you'll post a link to yours or make it otherwise available.
Cartoon Thunder
There's a little biker in all of us...
Almost any video editing software can be used for this. You can draw the background, and then make the rocking chair in separate, then you create an image of it with transparency around it, and animate the image over the background. You can do this with After Effects, Vegas Video, Adobe Premiere, Final Cut... anything... :)
danielpoeira.org
Daniel, can you be more specific on how I would do this? Or what I would look it up in help or something? Thanks
rupertpiston,
its probably kentridge you saw
http://www.southafrica.info/what_happening/news/features/kentridgeart.htm
i work with Mirage
which is a program that is also very suitable for this look
Peter Wassink - Digital 2D Animator
Put you images on layers and then work with them one by one ex:
put the chair on one layer, then then the girl on another, then the room. With that you can manipulate the images without having to re-draw everything,... plus, saves you time and artistic freedom blablabla.
If you know photoshop you can get away with plenty without having to dip your neurons on another program.
would i just have to erase all the overlapping/underlying lines if i brought it into photoshop?