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Papercraft animation

Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2008 12:58 pm
by jhbmw007
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

Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2008 2:12 pm
by jahnocli
I really enjoyed that -- and the lipsynch looked pretty good too! Well done!

Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2008 4:38 pm
by rylleman
Did you animate the face separate and motion tracked the head in post or did you track it by hand in AS?

Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2008 4:53 pm
by funksmaname
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!

Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2008 5:34 pm
by jhbmw007
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).

Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2008 7:32 pm
by jahnocli
The latest version of After Effects can do tracking -- but it ain't cheap...

Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2008 8:23 pm
by Mikdog
Nice!

Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 6:51 am
by PARKER
Well eyes and mouth animations looks good.
I think everything combines well.
Interesting animation.