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character animation
I am in the process of planning a character animation and i am currently doing all the preliminary drawings for one of the characters. I am familiar with the puppet pin tool and the need to draw each moving part individually. However, I am curious to know the best way to prepare and animate something such as the hair. See the initial sketch of this character:
https://s115.photobucket.com/albums/n310/malbowski/?action=view¤t=SDC10090.jpg
I intend for the hair to move in the wind so I have tried drawing each of the main “spikes” individually. However, I want to preserve the the thinner strands of hair as you can see drawn here and I want to add this texture and colour using photoshop. I cant see how this can be done without distorting the image and flaws becoming visible once the image is animated. I have considered just drawing it as one individual vector image but I fear the puppet pin tool needs more flexibility for it to look right, ie. more individual moving parts
hope this makes sense and someone can help!
thanks 🙂
alfredo
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What I would do for the hair is to build a base that will not move (in the wind, but just follow the moves of the head)and that will allow for the individual hair pieces to move without showing a hole under. Then you can use distortion tools, like Mesh Warp or Bezier Warp to animate the hair being blown by the wind.
Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist
Bucharest, Romania
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Okay, I’ll give that a try.
I understand how that will work for solid vector shapes but how would I animate, for example, a hand drawing of the hair, with small details such as tiny strands of hair, without them becoming distorted?
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