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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	Ok, that sounds like a HUGE ammount of work. But I'm still a little confused about some things... You said pencil on paper sketching after mentioning digital video... what's the video for? I'm assuming you'll be using the video as a reference for the movement. If you'll be using the video and actually compositing the animation over the top then photoshop really isn't what you'll want to use. Photohsop is great for 2D or even 3D stills, but for character animated compositing you'll want a 3D animation package like Cinema 4D, Max, Lightwave or Maya. Anyways, I'm going to assume that this will be an entirely hand drawn cartoon like animation... if so, then I'd suggest maybe you look into toon boom studio ( [url=http://www.toonboomstudio.com]www.toonboomstudio.com[/url] ). It's a cartoon animation program and might be really helpfull if you'll be wanting to do a lot of this kind of work. If that's out of your budget or this is simply a one off thing, get a drawing tablet (you can pick these up for under $100 on ebay), in fact, you should get one of these regardless, epically if you like photoshop and you have some drawing skills. This will cut out the whole pencil sketching and scanning process as it's likely to take you weeks to scan and digitally ink your drawings as it is (depending on how big this animation is of course). If you have a drawing tablet you can bring in stills from the video, story board key frames of your animation on screens from the avi file then sketch over the top of them right in photoshop. If you'll be animating this like a cartoon, you'll be better off using toon boom studio or your could even use flash (and freehand as it has more robust drawing tools than flash), as you can set up onion skinning and tweening in flash which can take you days of drawing time for certain kinds of animation. Then you can export from toon boom studio to a number of different video formats. But again, I might be over guessing how big this project is likely to be. And I'm possibly not the best person to ask about animation. Loading...
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