I want to incorporate some aspects of 2D animation. Firstly, I will look to use Adobe character animator. Because of the use of colours in the film, I will have to draw in relation to this. Before I commit to this method I will have to practice this before. If this method fails I will need to look to other methods or change the script.
Below is the video process I went through in my first practice.
Firstly I tried to use an exported version of a Puppet I used last term. I wanted to explore this method as I had big issues with the dynamic link. As you can see no matter what mode the file was in it always looked transparent. After looking at different way to fix this I gave up and used the dynamic link which looks a lot better. One thing I have to keep in mind is perspective. I need to think about the height that the character has to be as well as the lighting. The scene will be lit but the character won’t have that lighting. I will have to keep that in mind that I need to draw the character relative to the scene.
This was the first time in over a year that I’ve tried to track something in After Effects. My memory was fairly hazy in this respect. it took me a moment how to apply to track the motion rather than just play through it. As you can tell the tracking in this isn’t very good. The puppet is jumpy. I will have to research a way to prevent this from happening as it could cause a big headache in post-production.
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