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Hello everyone, I am max.

Here is part two of the second installment of the "In Action" series. I will combine my actual work case to share how an animation screen with magic elements is made from scratch.

 

In the previous issue, we explained in detail the process from "Script" to "Layout" starting from the creation of folders. And put forward a lot of points that need to be paid attention to in the production of individuals & small teams. For details, please move to "Part 1"

If you haven't tried to write a short story of about 1-5 minutes and make it into the layout section, please try it.

If you are like me before, you feel that you can only draw, and you are not suitable for other processes. I hope you can change this perception. Today, AI is developing rapidly in this field. Many top-notch technologies, like Internet technologies in the 1980s, will better help us improve production efficiency in the foreseeable future.

 

In fact, there are already many very convenient tools to improve our efficiency. The clipstudiopaint2.0 version we are using now has the "auto shadow" technology, which can "simplely" assist us in the drawing of color lines in the original painting stage. In this issue, I will briefly explain how I use it "Auto Shadow" to assist the production of the original painting.

 

We need to learn how to use these technologies to deepen our creation, no matter what tools, from the paper and pen in hand, ipad, or software such as clipstudiopaint, to 3D, or even use the very hot AI now— —I have always believed that these should serve to express our ideas. Shouldn't be limited to tools.

 

All progress needs an opportunity. You might as well take this opportunity to try to challenge different fields. At the stage of script and setting, you will stand in the perspective of expression, constantly looking for and optimizing various ways of communicating and communicating with the audience, to learn and gain more things .

🐰 Automatic shadow assist to draw original gif

In the second part, my focus will be on "painting". I will share in detail how to use Clipstudiopaint to improve the efficiency of painting when drawing animations, as well as some experience and skills in drawing animations.

Target

This time we will complete the production of the animation, the effect is as shown in the figure:

🐰 animation stage completed gif

1. Draw

Before the picture of each cut starts to draw, we need to complete the first two parts:

■ Conception (script & storyboard & setting) → → ■ Production design (layout)

In the previous article, we have already proceeded to the layout part, and designed the general details of our magic special effects.

 

We will make animation layer by layer according to the design drawing of the animation we have made.

If you are interested, please review the previous content here:

1-1. Original sketch and original painting

This is the layout made before

In this layout, we do these things:

·The sub-mirror is refined, and the general effect of the picture can be seen;

Determined the specific duration of the cut;

·Exercise style;

·Detailed planning & layering of characters, special effects, and backgrounds;

·Description of post effect;

🐰 Layout-gif

Next, we will complete the drawing of each layer one by one according to the layout plan.

— 🌟 Documentation creation

Let's review the project structure of the previous article.

 

🏷️References (folder)

🏷️Story-layout-settings (folder)

｜——— —·Mirror-layout.clip

｜——— —·Setting.clip

｜——— — 🏷 ️Export (folder)

🏷 ️Drawing (folder)

｜ 🏷 ️cut001 (folder)

｜｜———·cut001_original painting-animation.clip

｜｜———·cut001_background.clip

｜｜———— 🏷 ️Export (folder)

｜ 🏷 ️cut002 (folder)

｜｜———·cut002_original painting-animation.clip

｜｜———·cut002_background.clip

｜｜———— 🏷 ️Export (folder)

According to the content of the previous article, in the "Original Painting - Animation" section,

We need to create separate files for each shot, which will make it easier for us.

 

It would be disastrous if you tried to animate the keystrokes of several completely different shots, or combine backgrounds with these in one document. Because this is very inconvenient to manage for the following reasons:

After the production is completed, we need to export the materials in layers to the "Export" folder, so that we can combine them together later.

After the background is completed, because some shots need to be combined with many books, the playback of the clip will be very stuck, and it is not convenient to draw animation.

·It is very inconvenient for the management, induction and archiving of later documents.

🐰 Create a folder gif for each card

1-2. Original sketch (one original)

— Target effect

We disassemble the previous layout and draw animation (letter dynamic layer) and background (Book static layer) respectively to get such an effect.

🐰 motion effect of each layer of gif

How about it, do you feel moving? The scene is suddenly full of vitality. But this is just a sketch of the key motion nodes. That is what we have to do well in this step.

Motion effect after gif combination

✨ Points to note here:

·Colored lines are used to describe the changes of light and shadow. More commonly used are "blue line-orange fill" for shadows, and "red line-yellow fill" for highlight areas. The fill color can be filled in the shadow layer.

• Lines of different colors can also represent areas of different background colors. For example, if there is a color matching part on the clothes, it can be represented by color lines. You can change it flexibly according to your own settings.

— Create an animation folder

After creating the document, we need to plan the layout and establish the corresponding layers.

· The dynamic part, use the animation folder to create

·The static part can be created with a common folder.

🐇 layer structure map jpg

— Drawing layer by layer

·—— 🌟 Key points for making!

·——Use automatic shadows to assist the drawing of the original painting

In the sketch of the original painting, in order to facilitate the production of the original painting later, I will use the selection fill tool to simply fill in the color blocks of each part of the character.

· —————A_Lightwave 1 (animation folder)

When drawing light waves, we hope to show the flow of light, although light will not actually "flow", we can imagine the feeling of sunlight shining on turbulent water. Or the effect of some fast moving air.

 

In the drawing, in order to maintain the unity of the overall picture movement, I will fix the film at every three frames.

The beam of light in the picture is a circular beam of light, so this part is far away from us and behind the picture. So we put it at the bottom.

🐰 Light wave original painting video gif

·—————B_Girl (animation folder)

Let's start with the bottom layer, which is the "protagonist-little girl".

🐰 girl drawing gif

We can draw according to the settings. If you are not good at drawing characters, please don't be ashamed to use models or references, please directly use the character models that come with clip to make adjustments.

 

In the actual production, we will also use the model that comes with clipstudiopaint to adjust the three views of the corresponding characters in the setting stage. In order to make it easier for us to quickly grasp the proportions of the characters in situations where the perspective & mirror movement is very extreme and the movements are very complicated, so as not to make the most basic proportion errors.

🐰 Use clip models to adjust character movements

In the drawing, in order to maintain the unity of the overall picture movement, I will fix the film at every three frames. Control the speed through the movement distance of the screen

· —————Book beam of light (folder)

This is a static layer, I just use shift to draw a straight line, and then fill it in.

The book layer can be directly colored.

· —————C_Lightwave 2 (animation folder)

It is the same as the light wave drawing method of layer A. Note that this material should be in front of the screen.

🐰 Light wave original painting video-2gif

· —————D_Particles & Streamer (animation folder)

· —————E_Airflow (animation folder)

· —————F_Hua’s magic pattern case (animation folder)

1-2. Original painting (two original)