How to: Animate a hand drawn animal A short story:
My granddaughter sent me a picture of some colouring in she had done
and was very proud of. I thought it would be fun to animate it and use it to
give her some ongoing encouragement. So my aim was to make producing videos simple.
Here's the picture she sent me:
and here is the end result:
Process:
Tidy the drawing in photoshop and cut it into layers for the various moving parts:
Muzzle, nose, bone, head, torso, ears, tail.
This video show the pieces and the depth ordering:
So, how to make it easy to turn around videos quickly.
I wanted to be able to provide the voice and do all the animating in one take
without the use of triggers or so.
Two things made this possible:
The drawing of the dog had no eyebrows, so I used the eyebrows tag to animate the ears
A dangle behaviour then seals a natural look.
Secondly, I added a lower lip in addition to the nose/muzzle layer. See 3D video above.
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