Gianluigi Toccafondo of Acme Filmworks & PROLOGUE Films - Robin Hood End Titles.mp4

[LilahRavinskij1]

toccafondo è davvero un grande artista!!!!

[warrencriswell]

Wow. That is one bad animation, Harry.

[Caqui]

@warrencriswell I was going to give you a lecture as to why this isn't bad animation, but I see you're an animator. Question: when you make your pastel animations, do you use an entirely new cel for every drawing, or do you just draw over the old one (sort of like Willian Kentridge and his charcoal animations)?

[warrencriswell]

@Caqui --Ha- I meant that is one GREAT animation, a play on the phrase "That is one bad hat, Harry." Toccafondo is master. Answer: I do both, Caqui, but mostly now I do it the Kentridge way. My first animations, like "The Crow," were drawn one sheet at a time. It took me a while to learn how to do the draw-shoot-erase method because you can't go back and edit. You have to get the timing right the first time. Each frame is lost, only its digital ghost remains, like in real life.

[Caqui]

@warrencriswell Thanks for the response! I'm working on an animation, and I plan on doing it with paint on glass. I've seen your animations as well as Toccafondo's, and they're both very technical and realistic; I presume you both use a rotoscoping method. I'm curious how you manage this, if you're working in the Kentridge way of drawing and erasing. Do you use a projector? I'd understand if you wouldn't want (or don't have time) to answer, but thanks for this response anyhow!

[warrencriswell]

@Caqui I do it several different ways. I started by shooting video, printing out keyframes and drawing the inbetweens on a light box (you could do that on glass), scanning each frame and putting it together using Giff Construction Set. For the Kentridge method I use a projector when possible but not always. Sometimes I project on the wall beside the easel and draw freehand from that (the hyena in Roadkill), and sometimes, if I don't have video, I just make it up (some of Ghost & William).

[WillyLoman1]

quite amazing! a mix of rotoscoped painting.

[MultiSimone100]

L'artista che "trasferisce i quadri nell'animazione"!!

Grandissimo Toccafondo!

[taigkyo]

The technique is called rotoscoping. You can see it in a lot of the old Fleischer cartoons (Betty Boop & Superman immediately come to mind)...

[foosley]

@taigkyo It's not quite rotoscoping, actually. Rotoscoping usually entails tracing live action (as in Betty Boop or Superman). In this technique the live action is right there for all to see, and the paint is applied over it. There's a lot of manipulation of the live action image - stretching, squashing and slowing it for effect. And lets not forget the amazing use of paint. Toccafondo is a unique and brilliant artist.

[David42424242]

amazing!

[DiegoRibas90]

Salve ragazzi..Mi sapreste dire con quale programma si può realizzare un video del genere?

[gusso96]

@DiegoRibas90

non è un programma...tutto fatto a mano!

grandissimo Gianluigi!

[Antuvans]

nice work

[tsjee1]

Congrats Acme & Prologue!! Beautiful Animation from Acme Filmworks Gianluigi Toccafondo and Beautiful Typography from Prologue!