TRADITIONAL ANIMATION

MAKE A TRADISIONAL ANIMATION

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use traditional techniques to create an animation sequence. The difference between traditional animation and computer animation is that the traditional technique involves you creating every frame of the animation sequence. In computer animation, the computer can create many of the frames for you.

STEPS :

1. To begin, draw a character of your choice in the stage. Example : Bear.

2. Give the stage a background colour by clicking on a blank part of the stage and changing the Background option in the Properties panel.

3. If you look at the Timeline at the right, it will look like yours. It has one layer named Layer 1 and one keyframe. The keyframe is in Frame 1 of the timeline. You can tell a keyframe from a normal frame because it contains a dot. A keyframe containing content has a solid black dot, whereas an empty keyframe has a hollow dot. We will now name the layer after our animal or image. To change the layer name, double click on the words Layer 1. You can now edit the text.

4. Click on Frame 2 of the timeline. The frame will turn blue to show you have it selected. Select Insert > Timeline > Keyframe from the menu. This will put a new keyframe in Frame 2. The shortcut for adding a keyframe is F6.

5. Click on Frame 1 and you will see that in it there is the picture of your animal. Click on Frame 2 and you will see the same picture.

6. To create the animation, we simply need to change the image in Frame 2. You can adjust your animal’s mouth or face by selecting the black arrow tool and moving it close to the mouth or other facial feature. It will change and you will be able to alter the mouth or feature’s shape.

7. You can check out your short animation by selecting Control > Test Movie.Your image will change quickly as the animation moves through the two frames.

8. You can make your animation even longer by adding more keyframes and changing your character’s expression in each frame.

9. Save your animation by selecting File > Save.