Hi, On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 11:45 PM, Hin-Tak Leung <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone - A friend of mine is curious about how an animation is done - it > looks > almost like a series of hand-drawings, but I am sure there are ways of > automating via some computer-assisted technology while preserving > the "old fashioned" feel with the jitter, etc. So how is this done?
This is rotoscoping animation. Basically you draw over actual footage (with actors), frame after frame. Of course you are not forced to draw perfectly (otherwise just use the original if that's to do the exact same! :p), animators would add some wibbly feeling to their strokes for instance to get what you call (I guess) the "old fashioned" style, and you can add animation effects. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotoscoping With some shape detection technics, there is obviously ways to automatize this kind of things. Now programs are able to extract quite easily some foreground images with a little human help. Also some image filters in various programs are likely to provide similar feeling from photos. Now I would guess that you would still need animators to check each and every frame for detection of stroke bugs, unless you have all your actors in black on white backgrounds or if you use some motion detection sensors, or something. But is it still rotoscoping then? I imagine the best rotoscoping works are made entirely (or mostly) by hand. Hop some self-promotion of another rotoscoping animation: http://youtu.be/VdoreQ1_oJs Bye! Jehan > > Hin-Tak > > --- On Thu, 5/12/13, P.-L. Chau wrote: > >> Could I ask you a computing question, >> please? Could you have a look at this? >> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=kY4tEZvbUKg >> >> Please do not worry about the Chinese. What I would like to >> know is how this animation is done. Would you perhaps have >> any idea? >> >> Thank you very much! >> > > _______________________________________________ > CREATE mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create _______________________________________________ CREATE mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
