Tuesday, 24 May 2011

Skills needed

For this project , the minimum skills requirements were:
-Basic Knowledge on Photoshop
-Good Knowledge on  Flash
-Good knowledge on video editing.

For this project I needed to know how to use layers in photoshop, and I basically had to clean up this original storyboard, clean it up so I could use the images for the final animatic. The smudge tool was a way of blending in colours together.

It was a way of repairing an image (to hide the damage done after erasing some parts of the original storyboard).
For instance look at these two images.

I basically had to put the bits and pieces of the storyboard together to form one whole piece, and I had to blend in the gap using the smudge tool.


Knowing how to use the smudge tool wasn't the only thing I needed to know to repair the images, I also had to redraw the some parts and draw some missing parts for the animatic, and this require some knowledge in brush tools sizes, blending, flow (so that it would match the original drawing style and inking thickness).

"as you can see on the images below, I had to draw the bottom part of the character, cut out the wall and teh background, so that I would animate the character jumoing over the fence".


I also had to know how to import the same layers from photoshop to flash without have to resize or moify anything. The flash techinique I used and developed well was motion tweening.
I had a lot of trouble using the new motion tween technique on Flash CS5 so to achieve the final result I had to combine it with the classic tween technique.

As I was playing around with flash, I discovered that the new motion tween technique works better with backgrounds with one layer and the classic tween technique works better with foreground objects with different layers.
  
I also discovered that playing with the alpha option on flash helps create a fade out effect, which I used for a lot of scenes in the final animatic. (like the scenes just below).

I obviously had to resize one of the images in order for both of them fit together.




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