You heard me.
So, a while ago Jordyn and I were discussing animating Vlad (more accurate reference on the left) singing Jordan Knight's Give It To You (I think that's the most hyperlinking I've ever put in a single sentence), and I told her that I actually have all the necessary equipment to make an animation of my own. Which, I do. My trusty LightTracer II and I are the perfect simple animation team!
Now, Jordyn's promised to animate Vlad for me (I'll have to find some denying song to do Ria with xD), but since I have lots of time and no imaging software, I deceided on trying something short. Back when I was a wee little toddlekin, I watched a special about one of my favorite cartoons, and they said that in traditional animation, it takes 24 drawings per second to make the thing flow right. Jordyn and I did some calculations, and to animate something like Nara (which is about five minutes long), about seven thousand sketches are involved. A feature length Disney movie, say about two hours long? Something around 170,000 individual pictures.
No way am I doing something like that on my own, kay? ;D
So instead, I planned out a little 50-55 sketch animation of how regular peppy-o Ria goes into full-on Ziegte mode. It'd be a decently large file animated by hand, edited in Adobe Photoshop 7.0 and animated in Adobe ImageReady. A lengthy project, but if I do a little at a time, I ought to get it done.
(If I ever felt up to it, I'd complete it. But I'm estimating it'd be... 35-40 seconds long, meaning like 840-960 sketches.)
Yes, it'd be tons easier in Flash 'cause every line's a vector.
Yes, I'm set on doing it traditionally.
(It's just more dramatic the way I have it planned.)
INOTHERNEWS~
I'm gonna try to use our old Kodak cam to take pictures of my drawings and upload 'em that way. :3 I wonder if it'll work ~
Oh.
And as for background music, I'm thinking of composing my own. xD
Edit:
A quick, mouse-drawn plan of what this thing is gonna look like. Don't click if you don't want spoilers (if you can count this as spoiling anything...). I'm in the middle of doing the math to figure out just how much I'm gonna need. (I'm calculating over 100 drawings because of the short sequences at the beginning and at the end). Split into two parts 'cause Blogger hates big files. xDEdit II:
So, I did the math, and came up with the scary-as-all-hell number of 734-753 frames. There's a cheap trick I can use to eliminate about 336 of them, so I think I'll do that instead and end up with 398-417 frames. It's prolly even less than that, now that I think about it. Mid to upper 300s, definitely.
It's gonna take a while, but I'm looking forward to it. : D
4 comments:
AHHH THIS SOUNDS AWESOME
AND YOU HAVE A LIGHT TABLE. AWESOME!
24 fps for animation is only used in the really high-cost-production stuff, like Disney's films. Average television animation, maybe 6-8 frames per second? So don't feel pressured to make that many drawings.
Since you don't have a specific time limit you could just forget about the frame rate when you're drawing it on paper. Later in ImageReady you can decide on the number of seconds each drawing should show for.
I am looking forward to the Leyla bg music, and to seeing this, very much :D
ANYWAY you make me feel like animating something too now. How much did your light table cost?
My lightbox is actually the large one (you can has monster tablet, I can has monster lightbox!), and it cost something like 120$? You could get mine on eBay for like 40 now, I bet. xDD I got it years ago!
And I looove how smooth 24fps is, though. <3 I wanna try it out.
good lord almighty what have i gotten myself into. D; that's a lot of numbers.
i think now would be a good time to start since i actually figured out what in hell's name vlad should look like.
but i think i'll make a practice one with eries first. ;D
xDD
Well, as Wolfie said, there's also the 6fps method (for like, TV animations). I've been toying around all morning trying to figure out how to -shrink- mine down to like, the lower 200s or something. ._.
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