How To Animate with Live Action - 2D Animation Tutorial
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I began my animation career at the age of eight after watching Walt Disney’s the Sword in the stone. A bold statement, however I had formed the concept of drawing moving cartoon characters as my career definitely in my mind and was certain that is what would happen and it did. Over the years many fascinating projects came about from established studios that helped inspire me to stay on track to achieving the ideal. One of those films was
‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit’ and in fact the first time I saw the film was my first ever visit to a cinema. As I sat mesmerised by the marvel unfolding before me my mind occasionally wandered to my ideal and I promised myself that one day I will do something like that!
Fast forward and I already had my opportunity to echo the illusion as I sat in a London Animation Studio named Espresso and animated the famed Tony the Tiger playing basketball with live action counterparts. I did a few other commercials that mimicked the illusion but somehow I never felt fully satisfied with the results. Skip another number of years and I had changed direction and moved into the story board profession due to the industries taste for cgi over hand drawn animation. Alongside my story career I kept up my love for traditional frame by frame animation by doing small tests and tutorials on YouTube. I later discovered that the software that I used for storyboarding – Toon Boom Storyboard Pro could also produce full blown traditional animation with similar results to paper and pencil this excited me!
Suddenly I found myself revisiting my past ideals and ambitions and one day whilst on holiday in New Zealand I was overcome by the beauty of the Whakarewarewa Forest also known as ‘the Redwoods’. I only had my iphone 5s with me and decided there and then I was going to try something. Though the Camera in my phone was hardly fitting for today’s HD Cinema I realised that it was far superior to a lot of other older cameras and with professional editing software the film could also be treated. I decided to set an example for my subscribers and followers that no matter what equipment one has – in this day and age one is capable of achieving great results! So I asked my wife to film me act out a little sequence. Having spent my early twenties as a Martial Arts instructor I though a quick little fight would be a fun test and choreographed a brief combination then left the forest excited with the possibilities I had created.
It taken around 10 major steps to create the Animated Sequence
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