Animation

Animation

Apart from drawing and sketching, I at times have some attempts on animation, using different methods and diverse softwares. Animation normally takes about 24 frames per second, whereas GIF animations are ongoing. Here are two examples of animations I created with different softwares:

Jesus animation
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This is my very first original animation I ever made using Adobe Photoshop, which features Jesus Christ sketching out His hand. It was my very first attempt on making a original animation of my own when I was asked by a teacher to make to for him during a Taster Day. I'm hoping to use this short animation whenever I am making a full-length animation someday. For this first animation, I had began by making a (fourth) sketch of Jesus on paper. I then scanned the sketch via my printer into my pen drive as a JPEG file format. I next opened the sketch in FireAlpaca, a free drawing software which is downloadable from the its official website, which requires no payment and has no trial modes for it. For the second pose, I did some major editing using Adobe Photoshop, by creating a copy of the right arm and position it to the left, and then saved it in a different name. For the animation, I opened Adobe Photoshop for it, using a step-by-step tutorial as a guide to help me create this animation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zt-nUEOt2hg

I first saved it as a Quick Time player file, but then saved it as a GIF file since I had some problems uploading the QuickTime version of it in the past.


Bouncing Ball

This is my second animation I made, but this time, I did not use Adobe Photoshop for it, but rather I used another animating software called RETAS Studio, a animating software that it is widely used by professional animators. It was my very first time on using the software as it has four parts: TraceMan (which is used for scanning and tracing images. It can also do the tracing for you), Stylos (which is the one I used for the animation), PaintMan, and CoreRETAS. I used Stylos for the animation, using this tutorial from YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oD0A_r-om8w

After following the tutorial, I saved the animation as a .swf file, as instructed.

I am hoping to turn this short animation into a full-length animation someday, as I continue to gradually try and improve my animation skills each day.

Other types of animation

Although videogames softwares such as RPG Maker VX Ace do create forms of animations which involves creating cutscenes, they are more remote since the software involves controlling the characters.