Construction Paper Comedy Update
I have FINALLY figured out this whole construction paper animation comedy thing! Basically I was having a difficult time figuring out the best way to cut shapes out and scan them in and get the sizings right and all that for creating my animated sequences. I kept trying different things and nothing really looked right or fit or anything. So right before I left to come to camp I decided ok, i'm not going to bring my "box o crafts" and things and sit here cutting out and scanning in construction paper, but at the same time I wanted to at least get things really going with the animations.
Soooooo I was like wait a second/minute/hour/day... I could just scan in FULL sheets of construction paper and then cut them up digitally. I can just keep the same original sheets of paper in a folder on my computer and open them up new and cut out shapes. WHOA! Wait, this means I don't waste all this paper and making scraps and messes... this ALSO means I can make these anywhere I can bring my laptop. I pretty much spent a few hours tonight hanging out in my cabin just playing around with digitally cutting out construction paper shapes. This is so neat!
Right, so, I had the whole writing the comedy script part down, check. Then I got the whole recording my audio backing tracks part down (double check). So the last part left was creating animations using construction paper over top of the audio I had recorded in. Well now it's all figured out! Now I can use photoshop to digitally "cut out" shapes, then import them into flash. I can then use flash to animate over the also imported audio track! Then I can export that video into a quick video editing program, like premier and presto! I can't wait to finish the first one. I mean, it's still going to take a while to animate, but at least I have finally figured out the whole process.
The last thing I can do is use color balance settings and take the full 6 original construction paper colors and make "new" colors and save those new full sheets for future use! It's almost BETTER even than cutting out real construction paper. I also can use the "free transform" function in photoshop and warp the shapes, which is something I definitely can't do at all with real construction paper.
This is kinda exciting. So tonight I just made a little test image. I set out to just make a basic sailboat sailing on some water under some blue sky and sun and a cloud. Then I put sunglasses and lips on the sun and thought it reminded me of Marilyn Monroe, so I went with it. I found a Marilyn Monroe quote and then changed a few words to fit better.
This is just a first test example still frame thing of making some of my construction paper comedy animation. My next one will be animated to an audio track and will have things moving around the screen and all that goodness....
but for now...
"Marilyn Sunroe"
Nothing like a little sun humor to brighten everyones day!. 🙂
Leave a comment
You must be logged in to post a comment.