I think that is probably what I'll end up doing. I need to learn some script-fu for the cropping part of it, and for now i may end up positioning the initial cell by hand and then letting a script do the rest. i tested out a manual version of this technique with gimp-gap and it works quite well. now to figure out automation.
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 7:43 AM, Max <[email protected]> wrote: > -----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 >
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