Equipment Set-Up:
This is how I animate our project. I use a small Wacom tablet and a Macbook Pro, and I rotoscope the film clips on Photoshop, one frame at a time. This is a suitable set-up for creating our animation because it's easy to sit at my desk and rotoscope with my Wacom tablet and you can see what I'm animating in front of me and the mouse is in easy access to change frames and zoom in/out.
Process:
- Go onto Photoshop
- File - Import - Video Frames to Layers
- Choose a video clip to animate and cut down the clip to make sure you don't animate hundreds of frames
- Make a new frame above every film clip frame on the right hand side, and this is what you will draw on to trace the film clip below, making an animated version of the film clip once this has been done for all of the frames
- Using the Wacom tablet, draw over each film clip with your brush tool, making sure you don't draw straight onto the film clip because you'll need to hide that later
- Once you've drawn each frame, click on the eye of each film clip frame, leaving only your rotoscoped frames
- Add in a background for each clip by changing the background colour
- Change each frame rate to 0.08 seconds and play your animation to see if it is fast/slow enough and adjust accordingly.
