I’m moving this to the top
because we have begun to animate
Some of the Illustration panels in the Storybook.
Our process is to follow
Classic Animation techniques.
Starting with a stick-figure flip-book,
we establish the basic movement.
This group of stick-figures is embellished
with rough sketches.
The rough sketches then become character sketches,
which then become watercolors.
I have numerous tools to transform those paintings
into film, video & digital media.
I am anticipating doing some simple scenes
at a ratio of 1:1, but then
building the more complex scenes
at five or even ten to one.
Maybe even just building marking posts
for an overall structure.
I’m thinking along the lines of using those
“Marking Posts” as a guide, or a trail, so-to-speak
for an Ai (Si) tool to travel, to create embellished
Animations, much like you see below.
Clearly there needs to be a way of implementing
the movements in animation
that are specific to the story that needs to be told,
both with the character relationships therein
and the background elements of the scenes.
I’m working toward developing those tools
“In-House”. In the meanwhile,
we will be pursuing Classic Animation
as a foundation for that future work,
as well as the puppetry, which may also
be integrated into both Theatre & Cinema.
The test below was created by Ai using one watercolor painting
followed by the instruction;
“Old man walking, turns 360 degrees”
I expect to combine Classic Animation
with some CGI and the use if Ai.
Our approach will be to do some 1:1,
Then pass off a different (wider) ratio to Ai
and allow Ai to fill in the gaps.
We will need to experiment.
Clearly, we can establish the character movements,
But how Ai would expand the dimensionality
of the backgrounds is yet to be seen.
In the meanwhile, we will be concentrating on
Adding movement to the e-Storybook
in the form of GIFS,
presuming that will lead to
more expanded animations.
🎥
Here is an AMAZING test.
Created using Ai.
(which was not thoroughly detailed)
We will be moving forward with this
animation project
once the publishing work is finished.
The Artwork used in the books is being far more detailed that the image used for this test.
If you expand the image, you will see that
I did not fully detail the artwork,
which I am now doing for the publications.
I only wish I detailed this image further
before doing this test
but even so, it is amazing.
AG
