DHA 2311: Drawing and Illustration, Fall 2008

My animation consists of a couple scences most are pretty easy to animate such as falling rain, rising water, camera pan across the landscape, and heat lines rising. Which are pretty easy to do because they just require me to manipulate images to show change over time or to create a single animation loop for example for the heat lines rising. But, I'm finding that the most difficult part of making my animation is drawing the hippo turn his head back and forth realizing that there is no water which in my mind is one of the most important scences in my animation. I think it's so difficult to animate because it requires more than amature knowledge of animation. But reguardless of my abilities i'm working on trying to make it as smooth as possible, I included some of hippo frames in the link above.

Posted by silva039 at 4:04 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

As I attempted to put my animation together digitally, i encountered several problems. My first issue is probably the simple fact that i am trying to create it in Flash instead of photoshop or imovie. I think that it is much more complicated that need be. Another thing to watch out for is how the images scan in. Some are naturally darker than others, or slightly different size paper and should be run through photoshop to blend more smoothly. Lastly I have forgotten how to insert sound into a flash animation. Hope everyones is turning out well with few difficulties!

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For the storyline of my animation, I decided to go with the snake eating the bird. The first part will be a zoom in of a bird dancing in a tree. Next a snake wearing a $ necklace will slither through grass. The scene will zoom out and the snake will move into the scene of the bird dancing. The bird sees the snake, continues to dance, and then the snake lifts off into the air and engulfs the bird. Once the snake has returned to the grass, the bird is still for a bit, then continues to dance. The music I am planning to use includes some afro beats and rap that my friend John is putting together, so hopefully it will help illustrate the mood I am trying to get across.

The animation process is taking quite the while, but I am finding that it is very helpful to use Photoshop to help animate by making lots of layers and saving even more separate documents. So I was wondering if and how I would be able to put different background layers into different parts of the animation, because I have three main backgrounds- a close up of a tree, a close up of grass, and a more zoomed out view of the tree and grass. Also I was wondering if anyone knew how to set uniform time for a group of clips in imovie (instead of one by one).

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One of the things I had trouble with when scanning in my images was to try and position them so that they were almost all the same. After awhile of scanning, I just decided to edit them all in Photoshop. Even though it was kind of time consuming, I was able to use use layers to make sure the images were positioned correctly. I would layer each image on top of each other so that I could see the movement that was taking place. I was also able to set the dimensions this way and adjust the constrast if needed. This way just worked better for me because I was kind of able to see what my animation would look like before putting it into Flash (what I plan on using if it works out the way I want it to).

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I found this animation, and I really liked how the animator showed himself drawing the characters part of the time and then how the he'd use his fingers to morph the images into new things. I just thought it was an interesting combination of elements. Check it out if you have 4 minutes to spare. As far as the assignment is coming...I have everything drawn and scanned, it's just a matter of figuring out how order them correctly. It's kind of hard to wrap my mind around taking 100+ images and ordering them correctly and repeating the right ones!!! S

Posted by evenx016 at 9:10 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

My idea for the animation hasn't changed much since last post, however, it's grown a little since I've put some time into it. I tried scanning images in on my scanner...this was a disastrous mess and my battle with technology continues. I'm a little concerned about how many images I have to scan, what would be considered "normal" for this assignment I'm wondering? Well this is kinda the first basic idea and if my scanner worked i'd have more for you. Poo scanner. This is kinda what will be scrolling and growing throughout my animation, ending with a cacoon hatching butterflies. Very sketchy in style and I'm considering doing it on a white board and taking photos...might be easier we'll see.

Posted by austi147 at 10:49 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

Hello all, for my animation I want to start with a leaf falling. So you watch it fall for a second, then it shows it falling on a guys head. After it lands on his head he looks up and then a pile of leaves falls on him, funny right?


Here are two frames from it, I am working on adding more and making it a smoother journey from one moment to another. Let me know what you think, it is still a pretty simple rough stage.

Posted by pabic001 at 7:27 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)

This project is slightly frustrating, but I'm making progress. I've decided to use the idea of a manmade object blooming from the flower. My storyline is as follows: It starts with a cloud moving into the frame, then rain begins to fall. The rain stops, the cloud fades and the sun comes out. It shines for a bit, and then a plan begins to grow. Once the plant is grown, it begins to bloom and rather than a flower coming from the bud, smokes starts to appear. Then, a smoke stack pokes up, followed by the rest of a factory. The factory procedes to crush the flower, and then smoke takes over the frame eventually turning into the beginning cloud and starting the cycle over.

One thing I noticed is when I scanned my images, the tracing paper had crinkles and things that were different on each frame. So, I brought my images into Illustrator and 'live traced' them. The quality of them is basically the same, since all I did was use a micron pen to draw them. The only difference is the background is completely white and looks SO much better. I'm not sure if we're allowed to do that though? I hope so, because in my case at least, the drawn image quality really isn't different. But I suppose I will find out later tonight or tomorrow from Heba.

IF we are allowed to do this, and anyone else is having problems with their paper/background having slight variations, I suggest taking the live trace route.

Posted by gess0029 at 7:26 PM | Permalink | Comments (4)

I've already drawn about 90% of my frames on tracing paper, but I think the really difficult part will be scanning them all in and assembling. I'm doing this little blob that slowly forms into like a ghost shape, then starts to juggle, then turns into a circus tent. It's cooler than it sounds, at least I think. I'm still looking for some circus music to sync it up to. I'm still not sure what program I am going to use to assemble all the frames.

Here is a sketch I did recently, then colored in my favorite program OpenCanvas.

It was a really quick sketch and a really quick coloring job, but I still like it.

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