Animation and stuff
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syredronningThe new artistic inspiration of my weekend so far...
So, a professional artist friend recced a software to me called Mirage (by Bauhaus Software) available for Win and Mac. You can download a 30 day demo and it has some very nice features for overlaying e.g. videos and drawings. The focus here is animation drawn frame by frame, that means the classic animation.
(As opposed to the former Moho software, now Anime Studio. This software is optimal for e.g. cut-out animation like South Park, where you have snippets of figures and make them move around, using the concept of bones - wire frames you connect to the images. I did one little project with it, namely Trek S/Mc "The Unkown Passenger" (Quicktime) or here at imeem, which took only about 3 days for a total beginner.)
Mirage offers a screen where you have a combination of drawing tools (to the left) and the track/layer possibilities of video software (below the main working area).
Full Screenshot (big)
The cross at the end of the black line is the cursor. The software works fine with drawing tablets like my little Wacom.
You can now import a video (avi, quicktime etc) on another track
With video underneath (big)
(doesn't make much sense here, but just to give you an impression ;) You could also paint video mattes here.
The export is again to avi or quicktime etc, and the result is e.g. this few minutes' work: Hearts (Qicktime).
Of course, everything Mirage does can be done too if you e.g. export video material as image sequence, enter a graphic program, edit the images or add layers and import the images into the video program again. But Mirage makes the work much easier and faster.
That said, Mirage costs at least 395$ (pro is 549$) and has some handling quirks I'm only beginning to sort out ;( It's not really self-explanatory. But it is rather inspiring, and if the 30 days show some good results, I'm probably going to give myself a little Christmas present :)
So, a professional artist friend recced a software to me called Mirage (by Bauhaus Software) available for Win and Mac. You can download a 30 day demo and it has some very nice features for overlaying e.g. videos and drawings. The focus here is animation drawn frame by frame, that means the classic animation.
(As opposed to the former Moho software, now Anime Studio. This software is optimal for e.g. cut-out animation like South Park, where you have snippets of figures and make them move around, using the concept of bones - wire frames you connect to the images. I did one little project with it, namely Trek S/Mc "The Unkown Passenger" (Quicktime) or here at imeem, which took only about 3 days for a total beginner.)
Mirage offers a screen where you have a combination of drawing tools (to the left) and the track/layer possibilities of video software (below the main working area).
Full Screenshot (big)
The cross at the end of the black line is the cursor. The software works fine with drawing tablets like my little Wacom.
You can now import a video (avi, quicktime etc) on another track
With video underneath (big)
(doesn't make much sense here, but just to give you an impression ;) You could also paint video mattes here.
The export is again to avi or quicktime etc, and the result is e.g. this few minutes' work: Hearts (Qicktime).
Of course, everything Mirage does can be done too if you e.g. export video material as image sequence, enter a graphic program, edit the images or add layers and import the images into the video program again. But Mirage makes the work much easier and faster.
That said, Mirage costs at least 395$ (pro is 549$) and has some handling quirks I'm only beginning to sort out ;( It's not really self-explanatory. But it is rather inspiring, and if the 30 days show some good results, I'm probably going to give myself a little Christmas present :)
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Date: 2006-12-03 03:42 pm (UTC)Speaking of which: I'm going to make that "OK Corral" disc now. I hope everything goes well *fingers crossed*. You know what: you're good for my motivation to learn a little bit more about technical things (I'm almost at stone age level when it comes to these things...). ^__^
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Date: 2006-12-04 10:24 am (UTC)So double-thanks for doing this for me! :)
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Date: 2006-12-04 07:43 pm (UTC)^_^