Ok so here something that I did today... a test of a sneaky walk of a kind of child body wihtout arm (poor guy...
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Done with Pencil 0.4.3b without a tablet, just with the mouth.Sorry, even if pencil allow you to create a .mov, my computer doesn't want to so here is a flash animation, when I can I will put one!
Edit, it's done, here is the .Mov
Wanted to speak about pencil because I start to get really excited about this little software. I find it's just amazingand FREE.
here is the official Website.
http://www.les-stooges.org/pascal/pencil/I tried several software for animation, even some that you have to pay (I tired the demo version) And I didn't find tools as cool as in pencil. So here is a little list.
*You can have as many layers as you want. Bimap Layer but also Vector layer, sound and Camera.
*You have usual tool like a pen, a brush but really cool one like the polyline. The polyline sooth the line you are drawing so it makes your lines look nice even if you use a mouth.
*Use of all the color you want.
*the camera layer is so great, you can zoom and rotate and move and everything is keyable.
*Onion Skin (you can see the key before and after) -just one, could be improved.
*the Vector layer. (which bug a bit with window so save a lot your work) draw shape with the polyline and you can move the point on the other frame, you just have to select it, copy/paste, and tweak. with that you can also have line fill with color and hide line fill with color if you want to add some shadow for exemple!
Anyway, I just love it! I thought that without a tablet I couldn't really do something good on that kind of software and now I can!
Here is the animation with my sketching layer.
<![CDATA[<a href="http://www.animationlounge.com/videos/SneakWalkWIP.swf?" target="_blank">http://www.animationlounge.com/videos/SneakWalkWIP.swf?</a>]]>Now let's speak about the animation, I think I stretched too much the leg at the beginning of the move, I will try to work on that...
What do you think?
thanks for any C&C.
Mathias
