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Hi Folks,

I am very new to animation but I am figuring things out as I go for my educational animation idea.

I really like the animation technique used in the website below where there is a continuous style drawing in of an object.(as supposed to animating the movement of an object). I am curious if anyone knows the name of the animation technique and if you have some ideas on replicating it in anime studio or other tools with some ease. The brute force way of doing it would be to do it frame by frame in anime studio to replicate a drawn in style or perform it in a video screen capture program and do the editing. I was wondering if there are some built in functionality within anime studio or other software which does this drawing style of animation.

If you know some tutorials that can explain this, it would be great.

http://www.edelements.com/

Thanks in advance.

Best

Senthil

Sure, you can force Anime Studio to behave like Powerpoint -- but why not just buy Powerpoint?

AS can do this easily, even overkill as jahnocli said, you could try this instead.

http://www.openoffice.org

Hi Guys,

I am not sure if you are being serious or sarcastic.

I know powerpoint and open office has some basic animations but can it produce the animations similar to the website I provided ?

looks like you could get a similar effect using screen capture software such as camista and record your drawing sessions in MSPaint.

failing that, you could use simple screen shots at set intervals.

or maybe you could use, something like artrage 3, which lets you play back your "speed paints"

Stuff like that can be done in a lot of different programs, or any combination of those. As long as you don't contact the people who produced your example, nobody could know what exactly they used.

In any case it's quite basic stuff. I'm only a tad bit pissed that this nowadays qualifies as "animation".

slowtiger wrote: In any case it's quite basic stuff. I'm only a tad bit pissed that this nowadays qualifies as "animation".

lol

What We mean is that this is an animated presentation, something that could be done in a presentation software.

We would not be helping you much by letting you go through the learning curve of an advanced animation software like Anime Studio, when a much easier to use presentation software can do the job.

I am no expert at presentation software, but from what I saw in the past, it seems to me that OpenOffice or Powerpoint could do it, and with less strain on your brain.

Now, if you want to learn Anime Studio for your presentation, or perhaps do more then what is shown in the animation You've shown Us, We will gladly help you along the way.

Do not mind the guys, they look like they are trolls, but they are actually quite nice, when you know them, with time, and tons of patience, and comprehension!

what he seems to be talking about is the effect of things drawing out over time, which afaik you can't do in a presentation software... this might be easier to achieve afterfx than in AS, just due to the way curves work. You can do on path masking with the advantage of bezier curves whereas in AS you might be struggling to make your masks match the drawings.

unless we're looking at different things, I don't quite understand why everyone's being so harsh today

Hi Spremraj,

This is the closest thing I could find to what you're talking about.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfBRc20aAS0

Other than this,I don't know of any other software that can take a picture or pictures of objects and have them looked like they are being drawn in a fast time lapse like your example. My guess is an animator got paid good money to do a time an actual time lapse recording much in the same way you can do stop motion animation. You can try doing this in anime studio but I'm guessing doing the traditional way would be easier! That is, if the above software doesn't work for ya! Also, contact Education Elements and just ask them how it was done! Doesn't hurt to ask and since their business is in digital teaching and technology, I'm sure they might be a little more helpful!

Hi Guys,

Thanks for your help, I appreciate your answers. I already have beginner level knowledge in AS and I am going to continue the traditional animation but I just wanted to make sure if this kind of a functionality existed.

funksmaname & guyver93 - thanks for your insight. I will look into the software and features that you mentioned.

I realize that we can do it on a frame grabbing application and then do video editing. But one of the advantages of anime studio is the ability to carefully plan our design and movements and touch up on it if necessary, editing gets harder with a screen recorded series of images.

I was imagining some kind of a feature in AS where we first set our path and then tell AS to display that path with a certain color within this timeline sort of thing. This way I can really coordinate the drawing along with the voice over. I am just shooting my vision off the top of my head.

I will also check it up with Ed Elements and let you know if they let me in on their secret.

Thanks all

I have made something similar, using the stroke exposure tool in AS. It's most animated, but many of the effects were created using that tool.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhS9ZgLsHKs
To make it easier and less tedious, cut the audio in parts, one anme file each. This way you will animate one scene at the time. Then use a video editor (or even AS) to put each rendered scene together.

Thanks Selgin. Stroke exposure is exactly what I wanted. This is awesome. I found a tutorial on it too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Byj-3MAt0c

he didn't mention (i've commented) that you can hold alt and drag to animate the opposte end of the stroke - so you could animate both ends at the same time if you want...