a hose watering

Post by **Víctor Paredes** » Tue Oct 18, 2005 3:16 am

i'm working yet in the whale in the forest animation.
(http://www.zippyvideos.com/995400839124 ... he_forest/)
well, on this style -with no so much effects like transparency, defocusing or anything wich looks very "i made this with a computer"- i want to make a woman who is watering plants with a hose. then the guy (named José Gato) which is dragging in his back the whale, ask to her a little of whater to the poor dry cetacean. the woman will water all the whale.

i want to make this sequence, but i'm stopped with the whater. i think this can be make with particles, but i can't. i don't know how to obtain the effect i want, and the particles are very rebel with my.

can somebody help me?
thanks.

mr. blaaa · Post by **mr. blaaa** » Wed Oct 19, 2005 2:02 am

Me myself would prefer frame-by-frame to make the water.
But maybe the next user will know a beter method.

Post by **Víctor Paredes** » Wed Oct 19, 2005 3:20 am

i want to use particles, but, anyway, how could you do it frame by frame?
i know, frame by frame is just frame by frame... but i can't imagine how to do it.

jahnocli · Post by **jahnocli** » Wed Oct 19, 2005 9:45 am

Buy a Disney DVD -- they are masters at depicting water in cartoons. If it was me, I'd get the "Little Mermaid" (lots of water in that...). Then, assuming you've got a DVD player in your computer, find a sequence that you want to...adapt..and take screen shots of the frames you need. Trace over them, and you have your rotoscoped water effect. Phew...

jorgy · Post by **jorgy** » Wed Oct 19, 2005 4:20 pm

jahnocli wrote:Buy a Disney DVD -- they are masters at depicting water in cartoons. If it was me, I'd get the "Little Mermaid" (lots of water in that...). Then, assuming you've got a DVD player in your computer, find a sequence that you want to...adapt..and take screen shots of the frames you need. Trace over them, and you have your rotoscoped water effect. Phew...

Wonderful idea! I had already watched the beginning of Pocohontas over and over for rough seas, but I never though to rotoscope it. Thanks!

mr. blaaa · Post by **mr. blaaa** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 2:15 am

jahnocli wrote:Buy a Disney DVD -- they are masters at depicting water in cartoons. If it was me, I'd get the "Little Mermaid" (lots of water in that...). Then, assuming you've got a DVD player in your computer, find a sequence that you want to...adapt..and take screen shots of the frames you need. Trace over them, and you have your rotoscoped water effect. Phew...

So selgin, is this a way to achieve you aim?