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Anime 2D Animation
Lets say i have all the frame by frame drawings, can i put them in to AE to animate them? then convert it to an AVI and add the voices/sound effects etc ? or do i need a different program to put all the drawings together to animate or can that all be done in AE?
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If you have all the drawings (not just the keys) shoot them (with tripod, or scan them) with a digital camera (or scanner) that names the shots sequentially (IMG0001.jpg, etc.). Then drag those shots onto your hard drive, then import into AE by selecting the first image, then checking “JPEG (or TIFF or whatever) sequence”. The shots will come in as a 30fps sequence, like a movie. If you want, you can change the frame rate using file>interpret footage>main.
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cool, yeah, all the drawings where done in CS2, not on paper, so i have them in high quality , what if i wanted to do camera pans and stuff though?
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what i need to do is take the drawings of the scenes i did in photoshop, and put them together so they animate, and be able to add the sound effects,voices etc and export it to an AVI file thats all
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I’d import the drawings, and place them in a comp. Then I’d drag that comp into another one, and animate that comp’s position and scale to pan and zoom.
Or you could make that comp “3D”, add a camera, then animate the camera. I’d go that route. You must add a camera if you go 3D.
You can import the audio as well — make sure they are AIFFs or WAVs, not MP3s.
Kdeep in mind that you have to wait a little bit for previews – AE has to render everything, unlike an editing app.
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Sounds like you want to do a little in AE but the assembly should certainly be done in an NLE app. It’s murder doing sound in AE not to mention multiple layers of it. Any NLE will also do pan and scan so you may be able to do everything in your NLE of choice.
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If you drag a bunch of images (of any type) into a composition, AE will place each one on a layer. To make each one last one frame, select them all, place the current-time indicator at frame 0, then press alt+]. They are now all one frame long, and you can use animation>sequence layers to sequence them.
If they were all named sequentially in the first place, you could just import them as a numbered sequence, which AE sees as a movie clip (pretty much).
But if you just want to play them sequentially and work with audio, a Non-Linear Editing app would be a better choice, as George wrote.
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