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jocarra β Swordplay test animation
Published: 2005-05-20 05:28:23 +0000 UTC; Views: 16389; Favourites: 479; Downloads: 2717
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RIGHT CLICK TO LOOPA little swordplay animation... Rotoscoping is fun... Yep.
Right now, it's only in its most crude form - I was going to make it longer, but I thought this was an appropriate place to end it. I hope to make this into a proper animation of Jayli some day. Y'know, properly drawn with colour and a background... *sighs wistfully* Oh well...
~6 hours. 65 frames rotoscoped. Drawn in Adobe PhotoShop 7.0, tested in Microsoft GIF Animator, presented in Flash. 20.
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Bahahaha, I do that, naturally X3
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im working on a gif walpaper myself...and i got stuck...i got 5 girls dancing...in 5 different animated pictures...and i want to put them all on a single canvas...do you know how i can move the whole animations from one canvas to another...? or do i have to take layer by layer and put them in the exact spot...? cus thats gonna teka alot of work...as each danceing animation is 117 frames...
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The only way I know how to do things is the long, slow way :b If you're working with .gifs (as opposed to some other format, such as .swf), you'll definitely have to do it frame-by-frame, as far as I know. Sorry ;S
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yeah i figured...thatnks tho
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That's coool! o,o
You've done the movement so amazingly well!
Fav!
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WOW!!!!!! 
What is rotoscoping?
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Hehe, thank you very much - rotoscoping is essentially old-school motion capture.
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You're welcome!
Sounds interesting!! 
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DAMMMMMMM!!! this is good stuff!
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you're welcome...
maybe you could do a battle scene...just an idea
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Hmm... No, that would require changing too many of the frames, I think... but a good idea nonetheless.
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thank you...i'm glad you liked it...i know what you mean i've tried one months ago with a battle scene....but there were too many layers so i decided to just post it here instead of making it into a movie...and secen where the CSI fights the republic
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Thank you very much :3
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how'd you get it so smooth in photoshop?
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I used rotoscoping.
Alternatively, if you're looking for something to "autotween" for you, try Abrosoft Fantamorph, which can "morph" between frames and thus digitally smooth things out between them. I believe The Matrix used a similar technique for smoothing out the photographs they pinned together to create their bullet-time shots.
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can you help me with my gif its in my profile and i think it sucks and this is great thats why im askin............plzzzzzzzzzzz
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You don't have a profile up that I can see, so I can't help you until I can see it.
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This is cool
It reminds me much of XiangHua from the Soul Calibur series
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Heh, thank you very much - and hmm... I don't quite recall which character that is (I've borrowed the game once)...
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this is some pretty impressive animation for being in such a crude state!
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WOWWOWOWOW! That is absolutely incredible! You are amazingly talented at illustrating.
May I ask you what rotoscoping is? I am just starting to try to animate, and I am trying to learn as much as I can. If rotoscoping would make my animation lok ANYTHING like yours, I would love to know what it is!
Thank you so much!
-Bunnyhop
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Thank you very much - I'm actually not so much X3 Rotoscoping is the key - what it is, is a legitimate form of tracing in animation (for instance, the ballerina/fairy from the old Fantasia was entirely rotoscoped). It is the traditional version of motion-capture, where the actor is filmed to capture the motion, and then the animators copy and redraw the actor as the appropriate character. This gives extremely lifelike motion to whatever character results.
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Wow- that is absolutely amazing! You have alot of patience to individually draw each move of the model like that. I did notice that your charecter moved incredibly life-like.
Do you trace over each move on paper? Do you have any special tools you use? Thank you so much for taking the time to answer my questions. This really helps!
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Hmm, I did it all on the computer. Because I didn't have a program to do the capture myself, I had to resort to carefully pausing the video every few frames and doing a screenshot of it. From there, I resketched the figure.
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I have one more question, though.
I know that you copied a video clip or whatever to make your animation look realistic, but did you trace over the person to make it look realistic, or did you just look at the shots and copy the moves onto paper?
Thanks so much!
In Christ,
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In rotoscoping, one traces. It is then expected that after doing the tracings, you transform the captured motion into your own character - I just haven't done that yet
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Aha! I get it.
Well, what I did was take a shot of my model (my brother
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I could watch this all day. It's very fluid! Awesome!
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Hehe, thank you very much!
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I'm very impressed. If i could draw one frame like that i'd be happy.
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That is amazing!! It's perfect! ^-^
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Thank you 
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