How to deal with Backgrounds?...keep them in the animation or separate out?
Our artist has delivered some great looking files: Photoshop docs with layers that are set in ImageReady to frames for animation.
These layers comprise several layers of characters in different positions on transparent layers and one background layer which is the "wall" behind them in a room. ImageReady's optimization is set to bounding box and I have set the image in Revolution to "constantMask=true" which is fine in this context because the image is a) not moving and b) nothing underneath it. Which solves the problem created by that bounding box option. But I am interested in anyone else's experience. In this case the "wall" for the room the characters are in is applied to each frame... (thus the need for use of ImageReady's bounding box optimization to only render the movement of the characters and not iterate the pixels in the background layer across all frames.) I will test this also with a background image for the wall and delete that layer from the animation, as perhaps that is a better way to go.
But we would appreciate anyone's wisdom from experience on these matters...as there's no point re-inventing the wheel here... this has all been done before...
Also If there are better tools than ImageReady to get from the layered Photoshop document to a well optimized animated GIF, we would also be interested of those, though ImageReady does seem very well wired for the job. Does anyone know if one can import a Photoshop document into MOTO or ToonBoom Studio? And if those tools really help much for hand drawn frames... they seem more for cartoonists who can't drawn well (or just don't have that much time on their hands) for changes from frame to frame.
Also happy to do homework if someone knows of tutorials or any resources we should study out...
TIA!
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