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Roto Scoping in Motion 5
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[Lawrence]
Do you know of galleries with material people have done entirely in Motion5?Here are some videos that I did entirely in Motion 4. Motion 5’s price is unbeatable.
– Motion Training DVD commercial
Hope this is what you are looking for.
Stephen Smith
Utah Video ProductionsCheck out my Motion Training DVD
Check out my Vimeo page
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I was able to watch the ones on Vimeo. But I could not find the play button on the others.
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That’s strange. Here are links to the Vimeo ones:
The other ones are only on the COW. I would recommend updating your Flash player. Hope you find this of help.
Stephen Smith
Utah Video ProductionsCheck out my Motion Training DVD
Check out my Vimeo page
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I understand the confusion:in the days of film, the old fashioned rotoscope machine enabled people like Ralph Bakshi to trace live-action models as a shortcut to animating line drawn conventional animation. This was what he used on his Lord of The Rings animated film, etc. Richard Linklater uses a digital roto technique for “Waking Life” and “Thru A Scanner, Darkly”.
There are programs that will let you trace live action to make drawn animation, like the onionskin feature in Boinx iStopmotion… but it sounds like you’re looking for a shortcut method to directly convert live action to a painted or drawn look.
One of the best pieces of software I ever played with for this was called Synthetik Studio Artist
it can do the frames for you automatically, or let you paint on each frame with the procedures interactively, which looks far better since you leave white space around the edges of the frame.
Try it out and you will be hooked.
But if you can’t swing StudioArtist, then there are plug-in filters from Nattress
https://www.nattress.com/Products/set2/set2.htmand Sheffield
https://sheffieldsoftworks.com/looks/tam/instructions.pdfthat can help make video look cartoony.
Red Giant also has something for you:
https://www.redgiantsoftware.com/products/all/toonit/
Good luck!
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I don’t really have a feel for what your needs are outside of creating a cartoon look Lawrence, so I can’t speak to how valuable Motion would be to you in the long run. I can say that learning Motion (or After Effects or any compositing/Motion Graphics package) ultimately pays off even if the package itself might not be your cup of tea.
Things learned in one package-the fundamentals of compositing-work no matter what software you use. If you really want to do this kind of work, then that’s the sort of knowledge you will need to acquire. Fortunately its pretty much the same approach regardless of which package you use. Blending modes, masks, keyframes, these concepts are ubiquitous. Doing it in After Effects is similar to doing it in Motion. Some features in After Effects (like the puppet tool) don’t exist in Motion and can be indispensable depending on the type of project you’re working on, but similar effects can be achieved in Motion (just takes some ingenuity, creativity and trial and error.)
What do you want/need your software to do?
“Whether you think you can or can’t, you’re right.”
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I am trying to get effects like these. I dumbed down the resolution a lot but I think you can see what I am trying to do.
5490_spinningbluemoon3desktop.m4v.zip
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People are afraid to download zip files, try using the posting tools in the commenting interface to put in a link.
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I loaded these through the file up load link on this site. The last button on the right. What should i have done?
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Mark, I absolutely LOVE Studio Artist. I’d recommend it to Lawrence except for the fact that a) it definitely crosses the less that $100 threshold and b) it can have a very steep learning curve to master. It does have a demo and pretty good support community but it takes some time to wrap one’s head around.
Lawrence, I’d say Motion is capable of creating something like that, especially if you’re already generating elements in Photoshop.
“Whether you think you can or can’t, you’re right.”
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