I am using crosshatching in my images and it came to me that I do not know how to control this technic in animation.
I am trying to keep this post at under a hundred word.
I am using a painting program, a very simple one.
The object, a pepper, is moving in a way that the surface lighting texture changes. There is no rotation to the pepper.
I was thinking that the crosshatching would have to move across the surface as if the crosshatching were small shadows off of poles. Sound like too much work but I would like to heard some ideas.
Treat the area of the hatching as like a shadow zone. As the object moves, the shadowy areas will play over the shape of the object according to its contours. The hatching then is drawn within that shape as if it were a key pose image.
The inbetweening would have to be cheated because the cross hatching would not be consistent from key to key. Its a tricky effect to pull off, but if the shadow areas work right during the movement, then the crosshatching should look natural.
"We all grow older, we do not have to grow up"--Archie Goodwin ( 1937-1998)
Maybe this will help? Lots of shadows, shapes, contours, shadows on shadows. [URL=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdNNAOCn0MQ]Bill Plympton - pencil test for "Cheatin'".
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Thanks, Ken and b'ini. That was very helpful.