Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Steps for New Animation

As might already have noticed, in my last video, the background and the characters were all hand-drawn (by yours truly). But the drawings were all put together on Microsoft PowerPoint and Windows Live Movie Maker (it's not shown, but I assure you that you can take my word for it).

Preparation Steps
1. First, I drew the background on an app called Sketchbook Xpress. Then I saved it to my camera roll and emailed it to myself. I then went onto a desktop computer and saved that picture to said computer. I opened up a new page on Microsoft PowerPoint and pulled the picture up on a slide.
2. I went back to the sketchbook app and drew up all the characters. I made sure they were all drawn on a white background so that when I put it back on the PowerPoint slides, I will be able to clear the entire white, leaving only the subject. I did the same thing with the characters as I did with the background (I drew it on the app, saved it to my camera roll, emailed it to myself, saved it to the computer, opened it back up on a slide in PowerPoint, and then cropped and took out the background.
3. For every scene, I went back into the app and altered the characters just slightly to make them appear to have moved a bit. Then I sent the picture to myself and put it on the PowerPoint.
4. As a result, I used PowerPoint to animate the way I always have, but I actually drew all of the scenes.

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