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Published: 2005-05-20 05:28:23 +0000 UTC; Views: 16395; 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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Wow, excellent job! I've gave a shot at animation, but I found I prefer pictures that portray motion instead. 
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Thank you very much 
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Amazingly smooth and hypnotic to look at, not much else to say! Damn fine work Jocarra, I look forward to either finished work for this or perhaps even more test work! Totally amazing to behold!
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*chuckles* I find it hypnotic myself... That's probably one of the reasons it took me awhile - I kept stopping to stare at it 
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Cool work Jen, you made it very smooth, very human moves!!!!
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Thank you very much! It was hard working getting it this smooth, and I reckon I'll have to put even more work into smoothing it out for the finished version... if I ever get to it...
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im..... you... wow...
totaly by freehand? or... anyway so cool
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It was done by rotoscoping.
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wow, really good!
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Thank you very much
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That's right... I should capture that too!
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Looks great! I would love to see it completed. She could be fighting off guys with spears, and in the end, slowly stabinging through somebody!
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*chuckles* Yeah, that'd be awesome... I dunno if I'd manage to animate more than one figure at a time, though 
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rotoscoping? This is an awesome animation and the movements are so smooth and I love the white line that shows the path of the sword.... the whole thing is awesome :]
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Thank you very much
Rotoscoping = basically manually-drawn, frame-by-frame motion capture.
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Wooww it looks so hard to be done. 65 hours wow!
The deviation presents a great dynamism and and the fluenty of the sword and her moves look very real. She is Jayli Right? She looks very agile and gracefull.. i would dare to say elegant.
Nice animated work
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Nonono, 65 frames, not 65 hours! It took me only about 6 hours, not 65 X3.
Thank you very much! Yeah, it is supposed to be Jayli in the end...
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oh 65 frames..hehe oops
Jayli yeah she moves like her.
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Whoa, it's like flawless. *glompness* I want his sword!
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Thanks! Ahh, not quite flawless though, unfortunately X3 I've still a few bugs I wanna fix for the final version, if I ever get to it.
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*chuckles* Thank you... and yes! Don't stare at it too long - it just might consume YOUR SOUL!!!
...ahem... sorry about that...
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This is awsome! 
but...
What IS flash?
i wanna make an animation, but i have no idea what FLASH.....IS!
what kinda program is it? JUST animation. how do you use it?
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ah i see. (phew so much to take in!) But i think i got it!
Wow, there are alotta programs out there. thanx for the info!
im gonna get photoshop first and see where i can go from there.
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Mmm, thank you very much! Yes, there is something wonderfully appealing about animation... It's hard as heck for me, but it feels great once you've produced something
Macromedia Flash is a graphics/animation program. It can be used to make interactive web menus, games, cartoons, and images. It is vector-based as opposed to pixel-based. It allows animation using tweens as well as traditional-style frame-by-frame animation. I can't explain exactly how to use it, though - I'm hardly an expert myself. I'm actually pretty awful at it.
By the way... This animation wasn't made in Flash. It was made in Adobe PhotoShop, frame by frame. The frames were then animated in the free Microsoft GIF Animator, which is very easy to use. However, for the sake of a nice presentation, I uploaded it in Flash format.
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I cant stop staring at it....O_O
Its so smooth and the shape of the body is great *sucks at humans* Uh, one question, what's Rotoscoping?
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Don't stare at it too long - it just might CONSUME YOUR SOUL!!
Err, anyways... hahah...
Thank you very much
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*soul is consumed and a pale ghost is left*
It sounds hard....I just learned how to animate,and it seems to take a lot of time...
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You're lucky! I was never taught animation - I have to learn by myself
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I wasn't taught! I actually searched on google for some ver,very basic, animating tutorials...like,how to do frames....
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Hehe, well, a frame is basically anything you want. Any still image can be used as a frame in an animation.
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That is hardcore awsome. I was actually working on something like that earlier this year, only with my fursona wielding two kamas. But yeah- very very cool.
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Thanks a lot! Wow, that'd be a wicked animation - it might be tough giving an anthro convincing human-like movements, though, unless you changed the anatomy of the legs to be more human-like.
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Think general Grevious from star wars :3 It's be like that but less stiff
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Yeah, that'd be pretty sweet... I noticed his leg anatomy right away - I have a thing for animal-esque anatomy/kinetics/whateveryouwannacallit. Hehe, I even have this bad habit of walking around like that, on my toes and everything... X3 *is dumb*
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lol, I do that too!! When I was little I did the 'raptor walk' all the time and always had my arms up with 'finger claws' X3
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*LOL!* Yayy! I'm not alone! X3
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DUDE THATS SOOO AWEESOMEEE
it moves just like aperson and its so smooth
i lovvee itttttttt
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*chuckles* Thank you very much! I appreciate it
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Fabulous animation here. I believe I could never make such thing. 
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Thank you very much! I bet you could... it takes a lot of time and patience, though, but just start simple and you should be fine
Drizzt Do'Urden? *blank stare*
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Drizzt Do'Urden is a character in R.A.Salvatore's books, he's a um.. I guess it's a dark elf or something like that.
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ooooh.. the work.. the horror!! and I never tried rotoscoping.. 
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Rotoscoping? Well, if you have a video of something you like (say you like the duals in Star Wars), then just pause it and use each frame as a reference.
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