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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