Pencil test - How I Do It

[RobgersHabit]

How do you do this? It almost looks like it's done on tracing paper over a background?

[TRIPLEZEDOFFICIAL]

Amazing!

[xDivaBloodx]

Nice work! I really like it ^^

[Unirobi]

grafic effect molto interessante...unirobi

[namreh72]

Pretty cool work...I still in the beginning stage of learning these techniques.

[Ninjerina]

it was interesting to see the process! thanks for posting

[hackedbg]

Work on your character design and timing

[HoshiHikari]

Awesome!! What program did you use to get it on here though?

[Screechingweasel82]

Coooool! i'm gonna try pencil animation soon

[elfeLrOuNd]

course*

[elfeLrOuNd]

may i ask where to curse animation studies?

[scissorsinabox]

i hate yoiu so much! can we be friends?

[cheerabbitchan]

I've always wondered how animators get the characters on top of the background. How did you do it?

[CarlosJulio20]

Well... now days its just the computer, but before, animators used to draw the characters on a transparent paper called cel, and they just putted it on top of the backround.

[BPrice1A]

The paper isn't called cel, it is exactly what it is - animation paper and it's not transparent, it's bottom lit. That's how you can see so many layers. Cels are the final painted version made out of a clear acetate.

[CarlosJulio20]

yeah, I know that, that is true, I wasn`t really referring to this video, I was just saying that thats how you see a drawing in top of a painted backround in the old cartoons you see on TV. I know that first they just make the drawings on papers and after that they re-draw and color the characters on the cels.

I havens question.

Isn`t cel like a type of transparent paper?

[BPrice1A]

Like I said, a cel is a transparent, or clear, sheet of acetate. It is not paper. Those are two different things.

[CarlosJulio20]

Well, yeah that is true, there is not really suck thing as trasparent paper, but some people call it that way, not me.

[FroComb]

Excellent!

[blindhands]

cool thanks for the info:)

[blindhands]

are you just adjusting the opacity then so you can see the back ground then?

[jodyanimator]

I shoot the drawings on a light box. 2 levels of drawings show through. Sometimes I do shoot the backgrounds separtly from the figures. The Director program allows different levels to be transparent.

[blindhands]

What software are you using to pencil test?

[jodyanimator]

I have older equipment that I use to do the testing. I have a Macintosh IIci with a video card installed. This card is plugged into a home video camera. I Import the video snapshots as PICT files into a Macintosh program called Director 3.5.