Moho Forum

I am brand new to Anime Studio and I can't draw to save my life but I am very interested in the photoshop import feature that AS has. I was wondering if anyone on the boards here has some experience on how a project would look just using photoshop and AS? I also would love to see some sample animations using photoshop files. My main content would be using people (with transparent backgrounds) and maybe some props, but basically I am looking to do 1-2 mins little films. Is it as easy as important a psd file and then attaching some bones to it? Ok, that's a lot of questions for one post If anyone can lend me some advice or information on psd files in AS that would be very helpful.

Thanks,
Chadisa

Chadisa wrote:Is it as easy as important a psd file and then attaching some bones to it?

Yes it is basically that easy... and that hard.

The key is to get the images OUT of Photoshop into AS. I have not used the script mentioned because it is only for Photoshop CS. This script is a Photoshop script, not an AS import script.

The end result is suppose to be an AS file with all the layers of the Photoshop document as image layers in the AS file. Like I said I've never used it.

If you don't use the script, you need to export out of photoshop as a PNG file WITH TRANSPARENCY. That is important and is the first mistake made. You must have transparent layers in Photoshop and use the web export or whatever save as or export has the option for 24 bit png with transparency.

Then you would load these images into AS as image layers. Put these layers into a bone layer and then add bones to the bone layer, and bind each layer to a bone or use the flexible binding option to "warp" the images.

When I've done this in the past I like to put "joint" register marks on a layer in photoshop so I can crop tightly to the image and use those registration marks to reassemble the character layers in AS.

Once done, save and close the AS file. Resave and replace the images out of photoshop WITHOUT the registration marks. When you open the AS file the new images are updated.

-vern

Beware that the render times of these exported PNGs are much greater than if you use AS’s vector art.

I’ve had two characters so far that I’ve brought from Photoshop to Anime Studio and one I pretty much completely redid in AS just to make my render times reasonable. (The other just didn’t translate.) But setting up the bones for the characters was relatively easy so long as I set up character in enough layers in Photoshop.

Mister Asterix wrote:Beware that the render times of these exported PNGs are much greater than if you use AS’s vector art.

I’ve had two characters so far that I’ve brought from Photoshop to Anime Studio and one I pretty much completely redid in AS just to make my render times reasonable. (The other just didn’t translate.) But setting up the bones for the characters was relatively easy so long as I set up character in enough layers in Photoshop.

I would be really interested to see anyone's work that used photoshop files for an animation. I searched youtube for some examples but didn't really find what I was looking for. I really want to be able to take some photo clip art (i.e. a business person with a transparent background) and import it into AS and basically do a stop motion short without the stop motion I think it would be neat if everything in the scene was photo images of some sort or another. Would that make the rendering time take forever? Has anyone ever tried anything like that?

I've just uploaded this to YouTube...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtwSmxKgLS8

It is a test created a year or so ago using digital photo's manipulated in Anime Studio Pro and live-action. Yeah, I look REALLY confident infront of the camera I know!

The compositing took a while but the Anime Studio part was very fast to do.

Wow, flawless work AmigaMan! Very impressive.

AmigaMan wrote:I've just uploaded this to YouTube...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtwSmxKgLS8

It is a test created a year or so ago using digital photo's manipulated in Anime Studio Pro and live-action. Yeah, I look REALLY confident infront of the camera I know!

The compositing took a while but the Anime Studio part was very fast to do.

you can ehelp me? this is a normal work with photoshop and youtube video of this anime http://www.flymage.com/galaxy-angel.html

but this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75GoCvuB8Ow?

What is the question Ostani?

The second link is live action and CGI not 2D animation. You need high powered 3D software to do that, not AS and Photoshop.

-vern

I was wondering, is there a script to convert PSD files to anime studio files for CS3?

http://my.smithmicro.com/mac/anime/content.html

About halfway down the page, is the Photoshop exporter script.