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2D Frame by Frame animation
okay im going to rewrite my question better.
What im trying to do is, take my drawing, heres an example: https://www.fragilerapture.com/specials/anime-tifa-lockheart-004.jpg
now lets say i have have 500 more pictures but each is drawn with her slightly moved, maybe her hair is moving etc, now what i need to do do is bring these photos into program and let them all play out so that it animates, i dont need to add any effects, i just need all these photos playing frame by frame so that she walks or whatever, then export it to a high quality AVI, so, can this be done in after effects, and if so can someone explain to me the best way to approach this ?
and also any other programs you think might be useful, im doing my own anime, and im just drawing by the traditional frame by frame style, so anime studio is of no use to me, im going to need to add the voices and sound effects in as well, so like i said, any help would be GREATLY appreciated ! =)
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RETAS is what you want for this. AE is the wrong tool for cel animation on a frame-by-frame basis. It wasn’t designed for this and you are going to have to do most of the work by hand if you try to use it to this level. The reason? You have a LOT of nuance — nice work by the way — and the more shadow, etc., that you have and also detail, the harder it’s going to be to use tools like layers and the puppet tool to allow you to fake something like this.
That is why RETAS is your answer. It was designed for this and it is what many of the Animé artists use. It’s whole reason d’etre is to do exactly what you want.
It’s a great program. Check it out at https://www.celsys.co.jp/en/retas/
I hope this helps.
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
Remember: Burt Bacharach lied. What the world really needs now is an undo button.
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I just noticed that the RETAS site has the downloadable demo versions of their software but the sales site is showing the RETAS system as discontinued. I just got off the phone with one of the top RETAS artists in the world, Jesse Norton, and he told me that that is not right and that you can visit his site at fates.com and he will gladly give you any help that he can. His email is (jesse AT fates DOT com) and he is an animation master. One of his projects can be seen here at https://www.joeisjapanese.com/joe/
You can also check out his demo reel at:
https://www.fates.com/fates/htf_reel.html
I hope this helps.
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
Remember: Burt Bacharach lied. What the world really needs now is an undo button.
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That definitely looks like the best way to go.
I wondered though, did you not try photoshop in frame movie mode first? Plus, once you have 500 drawings,and import them into one bin in the NLE (pre-set so each imported image lasts one frame), if they are numbered consecutively, you could just drag them to a NLE timeline and they’d automatically become your animation right there. I did this a time or two on some rotoscoping work. No, it was not fast or fun. It was free, which was more important to me at the time with the budget I had…
Ron’s suggestion is your best bet, but I’d also suggest you check out Toon Boom Animation studio Pro, Toon Boom OPUS, (which used to be called USAniamtion) and the related products… Opus seems like it might have just been EOL’d in April but that might also mean you coud pick it up at a discount now…
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I realize this is a few years old… but wanted to see if someone had an update to using after effects in frame by frame.
I totally get were the original poster is coming from. What I was hoping to see was a real answer to the question, rather then “try software XYZ that costs $$$$”
I keep hitting these walls with animation. You get a package like Toon Boom that is so uterly unintuitive, and has little drawing capability and costs over a grand, or you end up with software that no longer exists but everyone tells you it’s what you need.
There has to be a way to go frame by frame in AE or Premiere Pro.
I’ve been using every animation package that’s known, via the 30 day trials… i’ve tried: anime studio, pencil, paper, toon boom, tvpaint… each has a great asset, and then some serious draw backs. So I end up using like 3 different programs, and I can’t afford to buy all this stuff. TVP and Toon Boom are each over a grand. While I do have adobe cloud and can use the whole suite, I was hoping (prob like the original poster) to use what I have…
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In case this helps anyone else who finds the thread… here’s a post on how to do what the original poster wanted:
https://ae.tutsplus.com/tutorials/motion-graphics/paper-cut-out-stop-motion-animation-effect/
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