-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 AFAIK this is done by using animation paper and gluing a pegbar onto the scanner http://www.lightfootltd.com/images/New-pegbar-chart-7.gif
m. Am 04.06.2011 um 03:42 schrieb grant centauri: > i will be drawing them. an interesting idea, but i think it should be easier > than that. if i use a standard size paper, proper scanner setup, and proper > alignment i should be able to process the cropping and saving of each cell > with some kind of photo manipulation program. i did something like this once > with photoshop where i took a batch of static images, cropped into 4 quarters > and saved each quadrant as a series of separate images to be animated. this > would just have to crop out a series of ~250x160 px rectangles and save each > as a numbered image for animation. i'm mostly concerned with proper > alignment so that the crops will be exact, ... well roughly enough. i don't > mind a bit of imperfection entering here, the idea is to capture the human > essence in quick animation. > > On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 8:17 PM, Tyler Leavitt <[email protected]> wrote: > Are you drawing the animations? Could you create a template with all the cell > numbers in the right place and print those out and draw on that? Then when > you scan it in, use the Tesseract library > (http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/) in some way (I've never used C > before but maybe you have). From the limited reading I've done, it appears > the Tesseract program outputs the text in an image file into a text file. > That doesn't sound like it could help you, but if you can program that sounds > like the library you'd use. > > Tyler > > On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 4:51 PM, grant centauri <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > > --- > [email protected] > http://identi.ca/group/puredyne > irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne > > > --- > [email protected] > http://identi.ca/group/puredyne > irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne > > --- > [email protected] > http://identi.ca/group/puredyne > irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAk3redcACgkQ3EB7kzgMM6JWLwCfexb1LxTUKSmn4rDQA0IiBdA1 u/cAn2Sgre9GBqQaeRiPrF+AlarvKXHN =dSkN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --- [email protected] http://identi.ca/group/puredyne irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne
