A new story concept and animation technique I've been experimenting with. This is sort of a short, musical montage of a larger, longer movie I'm working on. It's better as a video (the intended output) but this Flash version plays pretty well for most machines. Take a look.
http://www.tedtoons.com/animation/rockfishstu/
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Ted Nunes - www.tedtoons.com
Very cute.
How did you do this?
It's assembled in Flash. The 2D characters are all drawn, inked, then scanned and bitmapped-traced in Flash for coloring. The goal is to balance out the "tweening" that Flash does so easily with enough actual hand-drawn sequential movements to give an overall "fully" animated effect. There's more refining and polishing to do, but it's getting there.
The photos are a combination of jpegs for backgrounds and pngs for foreground objects--things like rocks and trees that are silo'd for multi-plane effects.
The volcano is a series of pngs; the base and then all the facial features are layered up pngs, like a Mr. Potato Head.
That's little ol' me on the uke. --ted
Ted Nunes - www.tedtoons.com