Friday, January 20, 2012

Flipping Out

January 16-- Week 2

Currently in the middle of a process of flipbooking and converting from analog to digital, one quickly learns that we're dealing with taming different animals here.
I'm still not crazy about After Effects, everything so cumbersome in the way that you have to upload frame per frame, I'm sure someone has created a better, more streamlined process by now, but I haven't found it yet. The part that bothers me the most is the strobing, I hate the way that it "bounces" within the frame and creates movement and makes it choppy rather than silky smooth.
I also need to study more films per frame, as my animation tends to slow and dash in certain spots, making movement start in seeming slo-mo and end in race car mode.
I have somewhat enjoyed the process, but as I am not a hand artist this was more difficult and frustrating to me.   I also was unhappy with how I didn't have enough time (or patience or both) to dedicate to adding color to the animation.

Story over everything.

Characters over story.

Develop.

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