Papercraft animation

jhbmw007 · Post by **jhbmw007** » Tue Oct 14, 2008 12:58 pm

Here I used Anime Studio to animate the eyes and mouth on this "live action" papercraft puppet:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS-FFX_sOSY

jahnocli · Post by **jahnocli** » Tue Oct 14, 2008 2:12 pm

I really enjoyed that -- and the lipsynch looked pretty good too! Well done!

rylleman · Post by **rylleman** » Tue Oct 14, 2008 4:38 pm

Did you animate the face separate and motion tracked the head in post or did you track it by hand in AS?

funksmaname · Post by **funksmaname** » Tue Oct 14, 2008 4:53 pm

it would be a mare to track it by hand in AS... i would guess at fully animating the face flat, and tracking it in post

Really nicely done

great idea for mixing footage and animation and it was seamless!

jhbmw007 · Post by **jhbmw007** » Tue Oct 14, 2008 5:34 pm

Sadly- I did it all by hand in AS lol. All 1200 frames. I didn't have any software that could do the tracking for me- can anyone recommend something? I'm thinking about doing some more animations like this (I've been making these little papercraft guys and they're collecting around the house- check out cubeecraft.com).

jahnocli · Post by **jahnocli** » Tue Oct 14, 2008 7:32 pm

The latest version of After Effects can do tracking -- but it ain't cheap...

Mikdog · Post by **Mikdog** » Tue Oct 14, 2008 8:23 pm

Nice!

PARKER · Post by **PARKER** » Sat Nov 01, 2008 6:51 am

Well eyes and mouth animations looks good.
I think everything combines well.
Interesting animation.