April 30th

Firsty i havent been able to leave comments on here for a few days now because my Internet connection has been playing up at home. But now iv fixed it and am updating what iv been up to.

Today i made some further experiments of animating my character. I did another test of hand drawn animation. This was into live action footage. To do this i filmed a very short sequence of me with my hand out on a table. I would animate the character to walk across the table and jump onto my hand. I printed off a screenshot of my video footage. I animated it by hand over the top of this print out and then had to get all the frames onto the computer. I scanned each frame into the computer, opened it on Adobe Photoshop and deleted the background, then put them all onto FinalCut Pro. This was a very long process and the compositing took longer than the animating. I then tried to insert the video into FinalCut but i had saved it as a WMV format which wont work on Final Cut so for the test i used an image. In the end it has come out really well. However it is a very long process and one which i dont think i will have time to achieve. I like the hand animation look and the frame rate was ok. I found it tricky to time it well and sometimes i could do with adding an extra frame in certain places. On the computer would allow me to do this so i will next try using hand drawn into Flash to animate.