Welcome to the magical world of animation!
We'll show you how to make a cartoon. You'll see how animators give life to their characters, making them laugh, cry or fly. Everything is possible in the toon world.
The starting point is a character.
This is Polly
Let's imagine that we want to see Polly flying .
The first thing that we have to do is to draw the key positions: how Polly looks at the beginning of the sequence and at the end of it. Polly starts to fly in 1 and ends up in 5.
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Now, we have to draw the inbetween positions. The first of these will be the middle one, drawing 3. To draw it, we place drawing 1 on top of drawing 5. We'll draw the beak and the tail as they are in 1 and 5, but we'll draw the wings half way between position 1 and position 5. So, we get drawing 3.
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Now, we have to draw the inbetween positions 2 and 4. We'll use the same technique we used to create drawing 3. To create position 2, we place drawing 1 on top of drawing 3, the beak and the tail will be the same, but the wings will be lower than in drawing 1, but not as low as in drawing 3. We'll do the same to create drawing 4. The wings are lower than in drawing 3, but not as low as in drawing 5.
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Now that we have the sequence of movement ready, we can color it.
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Would you like to know how the engine works? |
We use a software application that allows the computer to save your colored drawings and play the whole sequence several times. This way we have created
The illusion of movement
ILLUSION?
ILLUSION? ???
