now that i think about it more, perhaps a physical solution for registration
would be best... like taping animation pegs to my scanner or something.  i
may be making this too hard on myself. ;)

On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 6:40 PM, grant centauri <[email protected]> wrote:

> just a question for the community.
>
> my idea is this:
>
> i'd like to replicate the experience of animating directly onto 16mm or
> 35mm film by using some kind of "exposure sheet" which can be scanned in and
> automatically chopped into frames and optionally converted into video.
>
> the sheet would have rows of "cells" representing the frames of film which
> could be drawn on and perhaps some kind of registration marks for the
> processing?
>
> does anyone know of any tool that can be used to detect registration marks
> and then perform the cropping necessary to get each cell into its own image
> file for animation?  i imagine that imagemagick could probably do this, the
> thing i'm mostly concerned with is registration.  i'd guess it would be
> difficult to get each scan perfectly aligned, but if there was some kind of
> registration marks maybe the computer could align them with a 'cropping
> template' somehow.
>
> i'm guessing this shouldn't be too difficult, i may have to do some
> hacking, but i was just wondering if anyone out there had any leads i could
> follow.
>
> also, if there's a way i can filter out the scanned background to emulate
> clear film that would be great too.  perhaps this is in vain.
>
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