Tuesday 19 May 2015

2D animation - Rotoscoping

Rotoscoping

Rotoscoping is an animation technique that trace over a footage, frame by frame.
I use a cat video from YouTube to do my rotoscoping.
To start,open Photoshop and create a new document with Film & video preset then make sure the size is HDTV 1080p. Change your workplace of photoshop to Motion, or open Windows - Timelines.
Right after that, go to Layers and find the Video Layers, select the new blank video layer. Put in the video.




Then draws on a new black layers as shown belows, and press the right arrow key on keyboard to go next frame.
Draw all the frame, and save. go File > Export > Render Video... and render it.

Final result of my rotoscoping




2D animation - Masking

Masking
Masking is an animation that makes text or object appear using effect in AE (Adobe After Effect).

Open AE and make a word using Text tools (my work example: Spash)
Then, use Pen tools to highlight the part of words.it will call as Mask 1 after you finish one line. For my, 5 words so there is 5 Mask(Mask1,Mask2, ...etc)

  
Then use Effect - stroke to make effect like below video


2D Animation - Basic Animation

Basic Animation
Make shape in AI (Adobe Illustrator).
Open it in AE (Adobe After Effect)
and open a composition to put in your shape, then make it move.

 Basic animation