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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

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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.
> 
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