2D Rotoscope Animation

#1

Here we go, CGTalk posters-

This is my final semester project in Electronic Animation II, from this Spring, here at VCU School of the Arts. I’ll be a Senior in the Kinetic Imaging department in the fall. Also the VCU Chapter of SigGraph president.

I had a young friend make up a story, and tell it to me and I recorded him, for this project. Hope you enjoy it.

Used: Photoshop 7, AfterEffects 5.5, and Crayola Crayons.

*Note: I’m not sure if my bandwidth will hold out or not, I get 40 gigs monthly, so I hope it will. I tried my best with quicktime compression, I’m kind of new to it, so I hope these will suffice.

A Lost Soul - Small - Quicktime - 320x240 - 11.8 mb

A Lost Soul - Large - Quicktime - 480x360 - 23.1 mb

Thanks!

-Andy

#2

One more program.

I used Photoshop 7, AfterEffects 5.5, and Premiere 6.5

-Andy

#3

I know people are lookin’ at this, but no one is posting, so I forgot to mention: C&C welcome, but I can’t say I’ll go back and work on this particular animation again, but will take things to heart for future reference.

#4

I have to admit when I first watched this animation it scared me :stuck_out_tongue:

But I think you have done a real good job and the mind of the child has been brought out very well.

I cant really criticize the animation as its a pretty unique style.

Keep up the good work :slight_smile:

#5

nice andy, this may be a little less CGish most things here, and so you might not get many replys, but it’s good work, and you’ve definitly learned a lot about animating.

I’ll come back and bump it up a little bit later, and we’ll try and grab you some good feedback.

#6

Thanks fellas.

You win the prize for being the first person to tell me they were scared of the animation. That’s pretty cool. Heh.

Yeah, I figured as much. However, its not cgish, hence its in a 2d forum.

If people care about its digital-ness, all the rotoscoping was done in Adobe Photoshop 7. Painstakingly, so, not done in AfterEffects.

-Andy

#7

Cool what did I win? :smiley: j/k

#8

Originally posted by MajinPunisher
However, its not cgish, hence its in a 2d forum.

please do not curse, it offends me :wink:

sorry for not being able to crit… it’s an unique style for sure

#9

aw rotoscoping! good little short animation here. did you have the boy draw the colored pencil/crayon drawings? they slightly move n stuff so i was just curious if the boy had to do all those drawings.

this reminded me of an episode of dexters labratory, where a little boy narrates and has his drawings of a story between dexter and mandark. did you get the idea from this?

well there isn’t much i can crit since rotoscoping is just tracing live footage, so no crits on that part. the story worked out nice. maybe you could equalize your audio…so there wont be any ambience of the room you were in when recording, thats real nit picky stuff but its a crit.

cool! thanx for sharing!

EDIT: o isn’t there an 2d animation thread you could of posted this in! im sure you wont be able to get the kind of crits you want, when posting in just the 2d/maquettes thread.

#10

Thanks for the comments, brkofdon.

I got the idea out of the blue, however, when considering the ideas execution, I was thinking specifically of Waking Life, That episode of Dexter’s Lab you mentioned (I think its titled “Computress”), and something else, but I forget what the third film was.

I don’t think there is a specific 2D animation forum. I think that there used to be, but now it got consolidated into this gallery forum. At least when I browse all the forum threads, there’s nothing outside of this that would apply specifically to finished 2D animations.

-Andy

EDIT: Also, no I didn’t make my buddy Jacob do any animating, however the crayon elements are based off of drawings that he did in my sketchbook. I handed him my sketchbook, and some paper, and told him to go to town.

#11

toadlicker!

#12

oh yeah, joe?

U-turner in a no u-turn zone!

count it.

-andy

#13

Vell, voo vink vat voo vare vooooo vmar? Voo vannabeViking!!!

vess vake viss vack voo vaim.

#14

I really liked that.

It proves children do massive ammount of drugs, which has been a theory of mine for some time.

good work, and don’t worry if you don’t get a lot of posts/reply’s its very unique and hard to critique, it looks like you told the story you wanted to tell in a funny and very childliike way, which is cool.

#15

wow - thanks KingMob!

The funny thing about the child comment - when I had him tell me the story, and I set up the camera and mikes around his home play room to record him, I recorded him for 40 minutes.

So I have 40 minutes of child video insanity, that I painstakingly edited down to 59 seconds (then the stuff I tacked on for the credits).

Yeah, about the comments, I guess more or less I was just hoping people would like it. I’m considering doing some more shorts similar to this one, though not likely all to be with younger kids. Maybe some with grown ups. They say ridiculous things too.

Thanks again!

-Andy

#16

“He died !” Hehe , that was a vary nice animation you got there .
I like the style , and the story :smiley: .

#17

Originally posted by MajinPunisher
I’m considering doing some more shorts similar to this one, though not likely all to be with younger kids. Maybe some with grown ups. They say ridiculous things too.
-Andy

Is that a reference to me, hula-girl?

#18

Joe, I don’t know from poetry.

#19

Joe -

I think I’m prepping to mail this out to a television show on cable, I think based out of DC, that actually pays for student work to play on their show. Erika seems to think they’re likely to accept this animation, so I reckon I’ll send it out to them soon.

Is it resume-worthy, if it gets accepted, to specify that it was shown on said show and earned money?

-Andy

#20

now come on andy, what makes you think im gonna be able to check this? my internet has gone and got itself blown-up and I’m checking mail these days from yer apartment…