Body animations.

[Egg Bramhill]

Marcia recently posted a cartoon thread which touched on body animation, which is extremly difficult to do but something she achieved excellently.

It got me thinking of the best methods to mimic these actions. Whilst it doesn't create 100% accurate animation I think this is the easiest method. A man in a red leotard is slightly off-putting but you have to try your best.

[aridzone]

Sorry egg - couldn't help myself!

This one's for all you soccer - not football fans out there.

[AntonyF]

Sorry egg - couldn't help myself!

Is that you Intbel?!

[Intbel]

Is that you Intbel?!

Nope, I'd do better than that >grin<

[Egg Bramhill]

Aridzone,

I love it!

[gwpriester]

A lot of Flash dancing silhouettes have started appearing in small Internet ads and they are very arresting (which might explain why they are there).

I suspect the animator who created the figures used stills from a video and did a figure/object from each frame. Slow process but very effective result.

And as this is traditional animation, you don't need to bother about tweening. You just create a bunch of frames.

I believe the term for this in TV commercials is Rotoscope.

Gary

[suunto]

Marcia recently posted a cartoon thread which touched on body animation, which is extremly difficult to do but something she achieved excellently.

It got me thinking of the best methods to mimic these actions. Whilst it doesn't create 100% accurate animation I think this is the easiest method. A man in a red leotard is slightly off-putting but you have to try your best.

i've got quicktime, 7.1.3.100 but can't view any of the vids? they just have the normal Q but with a ? mark on i've just got XPro so would be great to see the animations, any ideas guys?

[Egg Bramhill]

suunto,
I'm confused. They're not Quicktime animations. They're Flash. Perhaps you need to go to Macromeadia site and download the latest Flash Player (Player9).

[suunto]

suunto,
I'm confused. They're not Quicktime animations. They're Flash. Perhaps you need to go to Macromeadia site and download the latest Flash Player (Player9).

don't you be confused too, we need someone who knows whats going on


when i click the thread and it opens a quicktime box comes up "some components are missing blah blah---------> click continue" which takes me to here http://www.apple.com/quicktime/resou...omponents.html

and all the boxes have a Q on, so i put two and two together and got six but looks like i need 9 (thanks for the tip)

[Soquili]

Suunto that only shows that quicktime is mistakenly registered as the program to open flash animations.

If you open Windows Explorer and find a .swf file and right click, select Properties. You will see that it is to be opened with Quicktime. Click the button to change the program, if you find Flash Player in the list of available programs select it. If the flash player isn't in the list select Internet Explorer or your default browser.

When quicktime installs it will register itself to open almost every graphic format unless you force it to register to open Apple Quicktime movie as the only choice.