boiling: 1-2-3-2-1-3 (to break the same pattern)
shortcut to the padlet: https://shorturl.at/RWCsT
Colour in TV paint
- select the lineart layer
- >new
- >duplicate the strcuture
- paint bucket
- > colour the full screen
- > duble click under the colour layer frame
- > press enter (colour all frames)
- > change “source” to display
- > press left key (to clear extra colour) on the mouse outside the character lineart, create a silhouette
- > adjust “smooth””gap closer””expand” to a value that suit the lineart
- > press enter to apply this to all frames
- > adjust each frame
- > turn on”enable the stencil”, (It’s like alpha lock) to draw only inside the silhouette
- “duplicate the structure” for any other new layers of the character (hair, clothes, face..)
export to after effects
- select all the character layers&label line and colour separately
- export to
- the tab- all layers and frames
- json+images
- choose png, change the compression to 1, take out the background
- make a folder (eg. json_character_demo.)
- export
- download the json script file (from the padlet)
- file> scripts> install script file> choose the json file
- create a composition: master comp (the final work)
- name the exported composition: character
use the camera:
layer>new>camera (change the project to 3d)
- layer
- >new>null object> to put on the top of the layers
- > click on parenting tool (the spiral)
- > parent the camera to the null object
- > tick every 3d boxes of every layers (including the null object)
- >choose active camera> custom space2
- use orbit around tool and selection tool
- animate/add keyframes to the null object
when import the character:
make sure that the character is on the same z axis as the surface they are standing on.