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Published: 2005-05-20 05:28:23 +0000 UTC; Views: 16396; 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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yeah.. but my videos.. well.. don't work as well on the computer.. 
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You could use videos off the TV, too, but it will be a lot harder to do it.
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yeah.. especially when the person is watching the video... 
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Tsk, you're not supposed to do it WHILE someone else is trying to watch it!
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oh... why? hey.. maybe I can do it in the middle of the cinema... 
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OMG, that'd be EVIL!! You might not make it out alive
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its okay.. I know the art of the 
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*LHAO!!* Yes! They shall dance around you intimidatingly until their predecessors are one-by-one taken down by you.
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*LHAO!!* Yes! They shall dance around you intimidately until their predecessors are one-by-one taken down by you.
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yes.. they shall.. it's the film law.. and in the film law.. the last guy will be a martial arts expert and we will fight in slow motion..
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wow, it's very smooth and clean. Good job! I must add it to my favorites
If I may ask, what did you base the rotoscopy on? did you take a video of someone doing that or did you have an external source? If you took the video of someone you know, it'll be great! you can exploit him/her and have hundreds or little Jayli animations, then a full length movie and then the world!!!
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Thank you very much! Heheh... I used a video of extreme martial arts demonstrations on the Discovery Channel for my reference, although I do have a friend who is into martial arts who could be a model if I needed him.
Err... I don't think I'd be able to animate enough for a whole movie, though! And certainly not enough to take over the world...
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Thank you
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Splendid swordplay. I was stuck studying the stances and depth in the perspective.
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Thank you! Yeah, I did the same with my reference...
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O.O....what a phantastiv animation! The moves are so realistic!!!!! When I look at this I`m sure you should make a movie!
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Time and ressources would be a problem but skill...after watching this animation I can say have sure have enough of it!!!!
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Thank you so much! Aww... 
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*stares in amazement*
The movement looks beautiful and perfectly natural... Did you draw all the frames separately or what does that "rotoscoping" mean?
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Thanks so much! Yes, I drew 65 separate frames, one by one. Rotoscoping is basically manually-drawn, frame-by-frame motion capture.
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So you drew a frame in about *does some calculating* ...five minutes... Pretty well with so accurate positioning!
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Mmhmm... The first few took a little longer, but after awhile, I started getting the hang of it.
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wow this is one of the best animations I'Ve ever seen!
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It looks so real and natural! I like the way the white line-thing (
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Thank you very much! Hehe, yeah, I like the white trail, too - besides looking cool, it also helps the viewer keep track of the sword.
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flawless anatomy and a very fluid animation.
this proves that u are just as good in animation as u are at CG.
5 thumbs up! (im an alien)
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Thanks so much! Aww, I'm not nearly as good at animation when you take my references away, though...
Five thumbs? Egads! X3
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oh that is so cool! good job:3
......If I did an animation of a person like that It would look really bad>_> an animal is another story...I wish I had flash ;-; it looks like it would be fun^_^
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Thank you very much! Yeah, I still want to try an animation with an animal... haven't tried yet...
Oh, and I didn't actually MAKE this in Flash. I made each frame in Adobe PhotoShop and animated it in the Microsoft GIF Animator... but I decided to upload it as Flash, because it's a nicer format.
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Very graceful movements, I like it 
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Thank you very much! I'm glad you like it
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Looks great! Very lifelike and graceful! I can picture the character just by the movement and mannerism.
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Thank you very much! 
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Thank you very much
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Woah, that's really cool. O_O Huzzah for animation! It looks really good, even when it's only this far. Very smooth animation. Ha, i have to say though- the white...ness that follows the sword makes it look kind of like one of those ribbon dancer things. XD Very amusing.
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*LOL* Yep, the character is supposed to be agile - I always imagined her as having the grace of a martial artist combined with a dancer. The white stuff is supposed to help the viewer keep track of where the sword tip is, but it's also supposed to be suggestive of that dancer-like grace combined with magical ability as well 
Thank you very much for the comment
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if you animated it in a gif animator... why upload it as flash?
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*chuckles* Good point. I should modify that in the description... I tested it originally in a GIF animator, and it totally destroyed some of the frames... so I put it through Flash and it worked much better.
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rotoscoping is hard x_X
Very good, you have some really good talent, you could be a great anime artist or something for a job ^__^
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Hehe, I find rotoscoping to be a lot easier than trying to come up with something like this on one's own X3...
Thank you very much for the comment!
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