I know that I already posted this, I really don’t like to bother you, but it’s really important to me…
My name is Benjamin Zimmermann, I’m studying multimedia-direction at the IAD (Institut des Arts de Diffusion) in Louvain-la-Neuve in Belgium. I’m writing a dissertation about the capabilities of Anime Studio for the creation of motion graphics. I used AS myself to create my final year project of the master diploma so I’m fascinated by its power and it's quickness. You can take a look at my work here (in French, English version has not yet been mixed)
Does someone know Motion designers that make use Anime Studio? By “motion graphics” I mean everything (advertising, broadcast design, main title design, visual essays etc.) but classical cartoon animation. Any indication could be useful. Thank you for your help.
You can also write me an email if you prefer: Benjamin[at sign]zimmermann.be. You can find additional information at my previous post.
Searching for Motion graphic designers using Anime Studio
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Hi Benz,
Actually I'm glad you posted again as I missed your first post. I took a look at your film and I liked it very much.
Great motion... great graphics!
I enjoyed your use of colour and graphic style. So many motion graphic pieces fail on the premise of what motion graphics should be, something clear crisp and concise. I'd like to congratulate you on a great piece of work, being a designer, compositor and artist myself it's nice to see some good work (though I know a lot of great work is out there)
I personally do not think many motion graphic designers will use AS Pro though. Many designers use Flash, Photoshop, Illustrator and most importantly AFter FX. Motion artists would more than likely use a 3d software as many are trained in the 3d package - to use a 2d piece of software would require some form of 2d training (in my opinion) though saying that I have never been to art school and I do it well enough (If i could be so bold!!)
So if I can help out in anyway I will, let me know what you need. PM me and I'll give you my personal contact details.
Best
Stu Gamble
GreyKid Pictures
Actually I'm glad you posted again as I missed your first post. I took a look at your film and I liked it very much.
Great motion... great graphics!
I enjoyed your use of colour and graphic style. So many motion graphic pieces fail on the premise of what motion graphics should be, something clear crisp and concise. I'd like to congratulate you on a great piece of work, being a designer, compositor and artist myself it's nice to see some good work (though I know a lot of great work is out there)
I personally do not think many motion graphic designers will use AS Pro though. Many designers use Flash, Photoshop, Illustrator and most importantly AFter FX. Motion artists would more than likely use a 3d software as many are trained in the 3d package - to use a 2d piece of software would require some form of 2d training (in my opinion) though saying that I have never been to art school and I do it well enough (If i could be so bold!!)
So if I can help out in anyway I will, let me know what you need. PM me and I'll give you my personal contact details.
Best
Stu Gamble
GreyKid Pictures
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blacksunproject
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Re: Searching for Motion graphic designers using Anime Studi
Nicely done.Benz wrote:I know that I already posted this, I really don’t like to bother you, but it’s really important to me…
My name is Benjamin Zimmermann, I’m studying multimedia-direction at the IAD (Institut des Arts de Diffusion) in Louvain-la-Neuve in Belgium. I’m writing a dissertation about the capabilities of Anime Studio for the creation of motion graphics. I used AS myself to create my final year project of the master diploma so I’m fascinated by its power and it's quickness. You can take a look at my work here (in French, English version has not yet been mixed)
Does someone know Motion designers that make use Anime Studio? By “motion graphics” I mean everything (advertising, broadcast design, main title design, visual essays etc.) but classical cartoon animation. Any indication could be useful. Thank you for your help.
You can also write me an email if you prefer: Benjamin[at sign]zimmermann.be. You can find additional information at my previous post.
It's nice to see motion graphics in AS.
Keep up the great work.
Gustavo
Composite Tools
Nice work! You will simply kill when you get your hands on a real compositing application. Particularly, the 3D camera, Z space reading and matting controls will be more robust in After Effects, Combustion, etc. I've never used Nuke, but I hear that is a very strong tool. Naturally, the cost of these applications increase dramatically. You've been wise with your student budget. Anime Studio will remain handy for making many elements, even as you gain access to more software.
Spacial Rationalization: a valuable consideration and a rare one in the USA.
Spacial Rationalization: a valuable consideration and a rare one in the USA.
Amazing work. It really inspires me! I never would've thought to do what you've done using AS. I kind of get stuck in the "cartoon" character animation genre and don't think of using it in this way (definately an uncommon use), in that style. Thinking outside the box.
A lot of people would immediately think of "Flash" when producing something like this. I see something like this and have to keep it in the back of my head for future projects... I have to remember not to put limits on what AS is capable of.
The silhouetting of the animated figures is amazing. I can think of at least 2 or 3 different ways to pull that off and I would love to know which technique you used.
I also don't see a lot of use of the layer blending effects in AS. Great implementation.
In your dissertation do you consider the aspect of SWF as a delivery medium? I keep thinking along the lines that AS has "limited" SWF export (I don't do much Flash myself, I prefer video) and how this type or style of presentation could be well suited to SWF "format" (download size)... the format... not necessarily using Flash itself to produce.
I suppose if you are focused on "video" compositing production swf support isn't an issue.
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p.s. I am dying to know what the narrator is saying at the very end... although I can probably guess the gist of it. I almost choked on my coffee.
-vern
A lot of people would immediately think of "Flash" when producing something like this. I see something like this and have to keep it in the back of my head for future projects... I have to remember not to put limits on what AS is capable of.
The silhouetting of the animated figures is amazing. I can think of at least 2 or 3 different ways to pull that off and I would love to know which technique you used.
I also don't see a lot of use of the layer blending effects in AS. Great implementation.
In your dissertation do you consider the aspect of SWF as a delivery medium? I keep thinking along the lines that AS has "limited" SWF export (I don't do much Flash myself, I prefer video) and how this type or style of presentation could be well suited to SWF "format" (download size)... the format... not necessarily using Flash itself to produce.
I suppose if you are focused on "video" compositing production swf support isn't an issue.
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p.s. I am dying to know what the narrator is saying at the very end... although I can probably guess the gist of it. I almost choked on my coffee.
-vern
Thank you very much for comments. This is really flattering and motivating to me.
@ jwlane: I already have access to After Effect and I guess will be obliged to deal with it in future projects because of some graphical limitations of AS (I often have to make too much compromises to get the similar graphical aspect in Anime Studio as in my original layout I use to make in adobe illustrator). But it’s a pity because Moho is so intuitive and so fast to me. It allows me to see immediately what my work looks like at least in terms of rhythm and it’s so modest regarding system requirements. I still think AS is a wise choice for little projects because it’s simply quick. But so far I have too less experience with After effects to judge about it. So far I’m been using Shake (which is not expensive too by the way) too compensate the compositing lacks of Anime Studio.
@ heyvern: There are actually two methods I used for the silhouettes. The first technique was to cutout silhouettes out of photos found on the internet, simplify them with photoshop to get a monochrom, vectorize them with illustrator and finally animate them with quite simple bone structures in Anime Studio.
The second technique was to film myself in several disguises
in front of a self-builded very poor blue-key- wall with the integrated webcam of my laptop (because I absolutely wanted to have an uncompressed footage to make the keying task as easy as possible and most of the camera formats available to me were extremely compressed). Afterwards I resized the keyed footage (only 640x480) to a bigger resolution (my film was produced in 1280x720 progressive). I basically blured the edges and increased the contrast afterwards to get sharp anti-aliased shape. In this way you lose details but you get a sharp shape as if it was filmed high resolution.
I agree, this type of presentation is fits good to the SWF format, I wrote about it in my dissertation too. There is a fantastic Swedish artist called Andreas Wannerstedt http://www.andreaswannerstedt.se/ who does a similar style and he published all of his early peaces in SWF. Personally I don’t see a reason anymore in using SWF because video can be transmitted so easily due to the high bandwidth of the internet nowadays
Here is a PDF of the English translation of my work, so you can see what the speaker says at the end:
http://www.zimmermann.be/prospective/te ... glaise.pdf
The blending effects are something I love to use in my layout. But unfortunately my favorite blending mode (“color burn” found in most Abobe software) isn’t available in Anime Studio! Do you think it would be possible to implement it in Anime Studio by writing a LUA script? Maybe with a layer script? I hadn’t the time yet to do script writing in AS so I can’t estimate if it would be possible. But that would definitely be my first script request. Maybe I should make a Topic in the script section about it.
@ jwlane: I already have access to After Effect and I guess will be obliged to deal with it in future projects because of some graphical limitations of AS (I often have to make too much compromises to get the similar graphical aspect in Anime Studio as in my original layout I use to make in adobe illustrator). But it’s a pity because Moho is so intuitive and so fast to me. It allows me to see immediately what my work looks like at least in terms of rhythm and it’s so modest regarding system requirements. I still think AS is a wise choice for little projects because it’s simply quick. But so far I have too less experience with After effects to judge about it. So far I’m been using Shake (which is not expensive too by the way) too compensate the compositing lacks of Anime Studio.
@ heyvern: There are actually two methods I used for the silhouettes. The first technique was to cutout silhouettes out of photos found on the internet, simplify them with photoshop to get a monochrom, vectorize them with illustrator and finally animate them with quite simple bone structures in Anime Studio.
The second technique was to film myself in several disguises
in front of a self-builded very poor blue-key- wall with the integrated webcam of my laptop (because I absolutely wanted to have an uncompressed footage to make the keying task as easy as possible and most of the camera formats available to me were extremely compressed). Afterwards I resized the keyed footage (only 640x480) to a bigger resolution (my film was produced in 1280x720 progressive). I basically blured the edges and increased the contrast afterwards to get sharp anti-aliased shape. In this way you lose details but you get a sharp shape as if it was filmed high resolution. I agree, this type of presentation is fits good to the SWF format, I wrote about it in my dissertation too. There is a fantastic Swedish artist called Andreas Wannerstedt http://www.andreaswannerstedt.se/ who does a similar style and he published all of his early peaces in SWF. Personally I don’t see a reason anymore in using SWF because video can be transmitted so easily due to the high bandwidth of the internet nowadays
Here is a PDF of the English translation of my work, so you can see what the speaker says at the end:
http://www.zimmermann.be/prospective/te ... glaise.pdf
The blending effects are something I love to use in my layout. But unfortunately my favorite blending mode (“color burn” found in most Abobe software) isn’t available in Anime Studio! Do you think it would be possible to implement it in Anime Studio by writing a LUA script? Maybe with a layer script? I hadn’t the time yet to do script writing in AS so I can’t estimate if it would be possible. But that would definitely be my first script request. Maybe I should make a Topic in the script section about it.
I'm not 100% positive. I think it might be but it would be incredibly difficult and It's probably beyond my lua/AS scripting skills and something I haven't had a need for.Benz wrote:But unfortunately my favorite blending mode (“color burn” found in most Abobe software) isn’t available in Anime Studio! Do you think it would be possible to implement it in Anime Studio by writing a LUA script?
There are some script references to manipulating colors, adding, subtracting, multiplying color values, but I'm not sure it could be used to that degree.
-vern