Roughing out the animation
Once you have a good sense of when things have to happen and where they hit on the audio track, you can start animating. Roughing out the key poses for your animation is the next step. Some animators like to animate straight ahead, creating each drawing in sequence. Most animators find it easier to rough out the key poses, then create the in-between drawings for those poses, and then test the motion and add or subtract drawings where necessary. You may find yourself using a combination of the...
Creating a moving background
In the following example, the character of Vince is layered over a background of the car interior. The car interior is a simple vector shape that leaves a transparent opening to view the background through. Next, the background art is created in a file that is much wider than the window. This is referred to as a pan cel. We are going to move the background across a movie. This will create the illusion of the character moving through the background. A wide image for the background is the...
Practice tweening with Corel Painter
1 Open a new movie file at 320 x 240 pixels and 72 ppi, set for 30 frames. 2 Open another file, the same size but a single image. 3 Choose the Image Hose brush category. Open the Nozzle Selector in the toolbox, click the selector menu arrow, and choose Load Nozzle. Locate the Walkbrush.rif file, and click Open. 4 Open the Nozzle Selector again, and click the selector menu arrow. Choose Add Nozzle To Library, and save the nozzle. 5 From the Brush Selector bar menu, turn on Record Stroke. 6 Paint...
Create a phoneme chart as a custom Image Portfolio
1 Photograph your mouth and chin forming basic phonemes A, B, C, D, E, F, G . . . 2 Display the Image Portfolio palette Window gt Show Image Portfolio . Save your phoneme chart as a custom Image Portfolio so you always have reference for mouth positions. 3 To create a new portfolio, click the palette menu arrow, and choose Open Library. 4 In the Choose Image Portfolio dialog box, click the New Library button. 5 In the New Image Portfolio dialog box, choose a location and enter a name for your...