Paper animation?????????

Question

i wann no how i do paper animation not flipbooks, like don hertzfeld animation please tell me

Answer 1

Do you want to draw it entirely on paper, like Don Hertzfeldt does, or are you okay with using an animation program to help you create and compile your drawings into an animated video? Hertzfeldt doesn't use computers AT ALL, which you may find hard to do. He has access to old film equipment that's really hard to get now.

If you want to do paper animation, you're going to need a whole bunch of paper and a way to register them while you draw. Plain old copy/printer paper works well enough, it's what I use. As for registering your paper, it just means keeping all your paper in the same place while you draw. Traditionally, this is done with a pegbar and paper with corresponding peg holes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SH4pUIJV2...

You don't absolutely need a pegbar, any way you can think of keeping your papers in the same position from drawing to drawing will work. Then, you need a way to shoot/scan your images. You can use a scanner, but scanners are very slow. It's much easier to build a line testing station with either a digital camera, camcorder or webcam suspended on it that points downwards. Then you can place your drawings under the camera and shoot pictures of it that can then be uploaded to your computer and compiled into an animation. I built a line testing station myself, I can show you how if you want.

Some of the better commercial 2D animation programs such as Digicel Flipbook, Toon Boom, TVPaint, TAB, and PAP, have Student or Express versions that are fairly inexpensive. However, you might be disappointed by how crippled these stripped down programs are compared to their more expensive Pro versions. But if you look hard enough you should be able to find them cracked online (rapidshare, bittorrent). There are some free alternatives.

If you're doing old school drawn on paper frame by frame stuff or stop-motion or 2D, I'd suggest MonkeyJam. It's free.

http://www.giantscreamingrobotmonkeys.co...

If you're on a Mac, use Pencil(there's PC and Linux versions as well).

http://www.les-stooges.org/pascal/pencil...

Here are some online resources about the basic principles of animation.

http://www.idleworm.com/how/index.shtml

http://www.awn.com/tooninstitute/lessonp...

http://www.animationarchive.org/2006/05/...

http://www.animationarchive.org/2006/05/...

http://www.karmatoons.com/drawing/1a.htm

http://w ww.animationarena.com/principles-of-anim...

http://w ww.animationmeat.com/notes/notes.html

Let me know if you need more help or info.