With digital animation techniques replacing traditional hand-drawn/film approaches to animation, how is the 12 and 16 field guide being employed?
By this I mean the aspect ratios of the traditional animation field is different from that of the digital frame - 720 x 480 or 16:9 aspect ratios.
Is there anything such thing as a digital field guide, or a conversion formula?
Lowell
Some one with more know how should jump in but from all I have read, it is all the same. A 16:9 ratio is the same in live action shots or animation. You can pick whatever ratio best displays your work.
Actually I was referring to the different field sizes used by a traditional 12 or 16 field guide. For example a 4 field is 4 inches wide. An 8 field, is 8 inches.
With the parameters of the digital format based on the sizes of 720 x 480, has a new, digital field guide been created and calibrated to those proportions?
Lowell
Of the digital animation apps that I am familiar with , Animo, ToonBoom, and TVPaint , they all have built in field guides that work with the aspect ratio of the project .
For example, attached are screen captures of three TVPaint project windows . The first is a 2048 x 1556 resolution , the second is 1920 x 1080 , the third is 720 x 480.
The graticule is still based on dividing the frame up into a "12 Field" , but the sizes are adapted to the shape of the frame based on the resolution (720 x 480, 1920 x 1080, whatever) .
Is this what you were asking about ?