They are all made as 20 second clips for a 10 minutes documentary about Friedrich Schiller's life.
The first one is showing Schiller in a detention room reading Goethe's "Werther".
As my clients wished to have a phantastical element I had to find a a not too time consuming solution to remove the prison wall.
So for the first time I tried the particle effects and used it in combination with a transition.
The Animation of Schiller in the theatre really stretched my nerves because I had to realize that Anime Studio offers no possibility to reverse the keyframes of the arm movement.
But as the arm parts and also their shadows had to be animated with point translations it took a lot of time to get them up and down.
The last animation shows old Schiller sitting on a chamber pot and reading german fairy tales.
After the theatre animation this was again fun to animate although I still get minor problems in Anime Studio which I don't understand.
Like the white lines that occured in Schiller's hand (see image).
The hands were build with individual hand and finger parts and each element has a mask that enables me to put in shading.
But when rendering I got these nasty white lines. I tried a lot but couldn't get rid of them…
I would appreciate to get a tip how to solve that problem (or an inspiration for a better set-up), because I really would like to build the body parts with that kind of shading.
