I want to animate a man (with Cutouts) starting with front view and changing to side view. Do I put all the cut out parts for the front view AND all the cut out parts for the front view in the same timeline? Or do I use a different timeline and/or scene for eacn view. If the latter is the case how do I change smoothly from front to side? An example would be welcome.
Well, if you like here is a very basic cut-out video-demonstration:
http://web.mac.com/nolan.scott/Gallery/Head_turning.html
Three head-, cap- and eyebrow-shapes, a few more eye-shapes for the different heads,
and the associated mouth-shapes (a,b,c,d,e,f,g,x) for every head-turn.
(there is no sound, it’s all fairly simple and self-explanatory)
The same principle would apply for the body-turn (drawing the necessary positions),
the more positions are available the smoother the transitions.
Here is the final result:
http://web.mac.com/nolan.scott/Gallery/Rudi_%26_Roland.html
Check out JK’s excellent tutorials:
http://www.tallgrassradio.com/toonboom/2008/01/animating-cut-out-characters-part-1.html
http://www.connectedconcepts.net/toonboom/2009/04/building-cut-out-character-in-toonboom.html
Regards
Nolan
Thanks to you. The example will take a bit of study but helps a lot on my ptoject.