Alessandra Sorrentino - The secret of Kells rough animation

These are some scenes I animated on the feature film "The secret of Kells".
In the scenes where I wrote 'animated Aisling only', the other character (Brendan) has been animated by my boyfriend Alfredo Cassano. We shared many sequences in the movie and it wouldn't have been the same without his precious work.
His website: alfredocassano.com

Copyright Cartoon Saloon, Les Armatures, Vivi Film

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Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• alessandra sorrentino
• the secret of kells
• 2d

[kuroninyu]

I notice that when drawing or animating bodies, the sometimes flicker. especially Brendan. Sometimes his body is not there for split second, but the frames move fast that it's only a flicker. Can you elaborate why?

[aleinatonna]

@kuroninyu it's all hand drawn on paper and filmed on a pegbar, can't be as precise as if it was done on flash or another digital program. But that's the beauty of traditional animation, isn't it? :)

[kuroninyu]

@aleinatonna on 0:43, I don't see Brendan's body, only his head. This was what I'm talking about. Or is that the result of from drawing and shooting stills on a pegboard?

for finishing, arranging, cleaning, and coloring, what program or methods were used?

[aleinatonna]

@kuroninyu yes, I got what you mean now. In key animation you don't need to redraw the same thing in every frame if it doesn't move, if you leave the space empty the inbetweener or the cleanup artist will know that the drawing will have to be exactly like the previous one, so he can be free to decide if to split that part on another layer. On Kells everything were done on paper, apart from the flash sequences and the 3d scenes. Coloring and compositing for 2d has been done by Digital Graphic.

[kuroninyu]

@aleinatonna cool, say this Digital Graphic software. Where can I find it?

[aleinatonna]

@kuroninyu Digital Graphic is a post production company in Belgium and they developed their own software for the movie.

[universalchickNo1]

awesome! one of the most exciting movies i saw recently.

[tokyogirl345]

I finally saw this movie a while ago, and I loved the artwork and story behind it. I don't really understand Aisling's character though, that was the only part where I got confused. Is she some how connected to an old story?

[fjordaan]

Thanks for sharing this, Alessandra! We got this on DVD a week ago and already watched it 3 times with our daughter (3¾), who loves it too. I took her to the British Library yesterday to see the real thing (actually the Lindisfarne Gospels, as the Book of Kells is in Dublin, but I let her believe it was it.) The library also has the Book of Kells is on their enormous "Turning the Pages" interactive terminals, so we could zoom in real close.

[xeoncat202]

Awesome. Many kudos

[ToonAddict]

@kuroninyu it's obviously unfinished. rough animation is not always complete animation. each animator has their own way of doing things. I would guess that, sinse it is a dialogue scene the person who worked on it focused more on the head, notice it moves smoothly and there isn't any "flickering". there are several frames where the body isn't drawn. and is either on a seperate layer, or just hasn't been added in yet.Like i said, I'm not 100% and every one does things different. could be anything

[kuroninyu]

@aleinatonna oh ok.