[Rachel Adams]

Thanks for all the advice all of these things are really useful. The video is a David Bowie video which i have turned into a series of stills. Its like a simplified portrait you see for an art video.

Am i right in thinking the basic thought then is to either use flash frame by frame or to take my existing photoshop footage and use it with masks in after effects? Is that correct? So do i use a motion blur mask in after affects.

I will try out all of these things!

I also love that A-ha video but for this instance the jittery affect would be too hand drawn, it needs to be more mechanical and smooth to work with the rest of my animation (i think).

[Rachel Adams]

The ‘a-ha’ effect (from the music video from the 1980s where comic book characters come to life) may actual be called jitter(?) when the animation shakes in that hand drawn way, I want to eliminate that making it look much more like a smooth shifting shape.

I am thinking that if i put a smoothing effect on photoshop this might do the trick. However the other problem i’m having is the quality, i don’t know what size screen its going to be viewed on (which is why i was keen on flash or after effects to make vector shapes rather than raster) so I could keep the quality up.

Hope that explains my thinking a bit.
Rachel

[Rachel Adams]

Thanks, that’s really helpful.

The mouth can get covered its going to disappear when it does, that shouldn’t be too much on a problem from the footage. At the moment you see i’ve been doing it frame by frame with the quick selection tool in photoshop to make the animation however the problem with that system is it looks very a-ha video, rather than smooth flash animation.

Thanks again, Rachel