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Hardware:
Android tablet (Galaxy Tab S9 FE) for drawing.
Lenovo Y730 laptop for editing.
Software:
Infinite Painter (tablet)
Rough Animator (tablet)
Davinci Resolve, free version (PC)
Audacity (PC)
Workflow:
Make up the script, record audio in Audacity, slap together a draft audio version in Davinci with minimal sound design.
Open the audio in Rough Animator, do a sketch version of the whole thing.
Turn the sketch figures into characters (still in Rough Animator).
Color the characters.
Draw/color the backgrounds. Sometimes I draw these in Infinite Painter, but that's an extra pain in the ass that I am not a fan of + Infinite Painter crashes and lags a lot.
Export to Davinci, where I add phoneme pngs for lipsync, add camera movement, finish up sound design where needed etc.
The pain:
Infinite Painter has functionality for in depth layering, filters, blurring, masking etc. Rough Animator doesn't (not in a usable way, anyway). But I wonder if there may be a piece of software that would actually allow me to do the same stuff I can do in Infinite painter? Especially stuff like blurring and using masks/layers to add shading in a non-destructive way.
And of course, any other suggestions. I am certain my amateur workflow could use some improvements I am not even aware of. I am open to purchasing some new hardware eventually, even switching to an apple product, if absolutely unavoidable.
Developing a video podcast, are there any software options that quickly and easily rotoscope animate a character?
The plan would be to shoot brief monologues by a campfire, then rotoscope the lead with a demon’s face.
I'm here asking if anyone has ever used platforms like Patreon to fund the development of personal projects. I keep doing short animations in my spare time, trying do board my pilot and so, but it's slow because I have to keep accepting clients so we can pay our bills. If so, how was/is your experience with it? I don't want to stop accepting clients, because if fun a work most of the times and I like meeting people, I just want to get balance.
I’m making a film about a woman who’s a bit crazy and speaks to her kettle and the kettle reacts with facial expressions. I want the kettle to have a don’t hug me I’m scared vibe to it but the kettle is a real kettle, it’s only the face that’s animated.
How should I go about this? I’m new to animation but I’m pretty good at art and drawing and I have after effects. I am not against doing it as stop motion either but what materials would I need? I’m grateful for any advice or links to similar animations to what I’ve described.
Kinda cool ay?
Making perspective grids are the bane of my existence since I draw them by hand and I can never get them even no matter how hard K try how do you guys do it?
Hello everyone, my problem is the following, when I open a toon boom project it opens and instantly closes. I tried with toon boom storyboard and I had no problems with it. I saw that someone had the same problem as me and when updating The Nvidia drivers their problems were solved, but this did not work for me. I would like to know if you guys know another solution for this. I have personal projects that I want to work on and it makes me angry not to be able to work on them.
PS: I have Windows 11
This could be the wrong sub I'm not sure. But I used one picture of my truck and then painted on each headlight setting individually and just started layering it with different edits. My goals is to just try to make one of those Harry Potter "alive" looking images. I originally paired it with the beginning part of Stan by Eminem so it's tuned to that. It's really nothing crazy but I'm lowkey proud of it! If anyone has any tips on improvement I would love to hear I have no idea what I'm doing whatsoever
I just started researching Vinton and stumbled upon the title of his first claymation film. Would anyone here happen to know where I may watch it? Would it be on archive.org?
I worked as Animation Supervisor on this show Badjelly that is releasing soon.
Check out the trailer. It was a fun production.
It was co-production with our New Zealand studio Mukpuddy and another studio named Sphere.
If you have any questions about the production. Let me know