tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90778116329007982712024-02-06T21:21:40.732-08:00three fingers hold the penSCOTT CAPLEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00383231992299446364noreply@blogger.comBlogger269125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9077811632900798271.post-63439037055292076222017-02-22T18:30:00.001-08:002017-02-22T18:31:34.920-08:00Drawing the Supercars!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />SCOTT CAPLEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00383231992299446364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9077811632900798271.post-83736273048669363032017-01-18T21:28:00.000-08:002017-01-18T21:28:02.415-08:00The Wind Rises - analysis!OK, in the spirit of the new year, putting up a post here and sharing some analysis from one of my online classes dealing with animation layout; particularly 2D layout - still an unappreciated science!<br />
This a sequence from Hayao Miyasaki's last film, The Wind Rises, about the aircraft designer and dreamer, here he has a daydream about attaining his goal, to fly an aircraft of his own design. He flies over a harbour, along a river, beneath bridges, before overflying a town, bringing pleasure to those below.<br />
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This is a partial clip of the sequence:</div>
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here is a breakdown of the cinematography using some drawovers of the scenes:</div>
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first we have Jiro in his plane, the angle is a MS from the side , so a strong movement from screen right to left.</div>
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2-cut to MLS, from behind, camera moving in, BG straight toward camera, as plane flies away, forces are simultaneously to and from point at center.</div>
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3- shot cont. - action turns to screen left, camera pans to follow</div>
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4- cont - plane gains screen left, while moving UP in frame, while a boat enters frame left, moving towards screen right with the pan</div>
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5- cont - boat continues to screen right, moving DOWN in frame,</div>
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6- CUT to- MLS or full shot, action directly towards camera, BG moving away, but WITH BIAS TO SCREEN LEFT. also scene is staged so BOAT IS SEEN SCREEN RIGHT , where it was in the previous scene, creating some visual continuity, but in the upper part of the frame, avoiding a jump cut.</div>
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7- CUT - POV of Jiro, Camera moving directly toward center screen, main action lines are to and from center.</div>
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8- CUT - MCU on Jiro - facing camera but still BIAS to screen left, Bg panning/zooming back to a point just off screen.</div>
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9- CUT - BACK- WS - to include bridge as he flies toward camera, under bridge, then exits frame screen leftclose to camera, note in most of the shots a strong DIAGONAL from LOWER RIGHT to UPPR LEFT - very deliberate!</div>
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10,11- now he CUTS and stages the action from the opposite side, reversing the action lines of the sequence. evrything now moving from left to right.</div>
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12,13- cuts to PANNING SHOT - left to right - so KEEPS UP the movement initiated by the previous shot, note long line of smoke moving left to right as well, into upper part of screen right, then plane enters shot form below camera, towards screen center, then turns and flies INTO area set up by smoke action. Over all action lines a re are big curve from lower center to screen right... pretty cool, huh?</div>
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14,15,16 - CUT to - down angle, more or less his POV again, crowd on balcony, DIAGONAL PAN, moving lower right to upper left ( again), CUT closer to same , the CUT to - 180 degree angle - which means we n must see him moving from Left to RIGHT.</div>
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A bit wordy, but wanted to impress on you the WORK and CARE that goes into staging a sequence like this PLUS creating an appealing and emotion-filled bit of cinema( fun, free, joyful, exhilarating, etc.)</div>
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pardon all the junk in the images, I was working from a clip online and wanted to preserve the aspect ratio, i didnt crop out the logos etc.</div>
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cheers! scott</div>
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SCOTT CAPLEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00383231992299446364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9077811632900798271.post-37926361970462354762016-12-30T08:45:00.005-08:002016-12-30T08:45:57.805-08:00rowland emmett at OSCThe Ontario Science centre is putting it's collection of Rowland Emmett whimsical kinetic sculptures on display over the Christmas season, as they do each year. If you are not aware of Emmett and his work, or <br />
haven't seen these, they are astounding - no digital enhancement, no computers, just mechanical creativity in action before your very eyes. So to make this a more special event, i am going to lead a RefSketch outing to go see - and DRAW - them. Anyone welcome! see the info attached:<br />
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SCOTT CAPLEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00383231992299446364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9077811632900798271.post-14096028950239034532016-08-03T14:07:00.001-07:002016-08-03T14:09:22.334-07:00What the hell? For the last six months , i couldn't seem to get onto my own blog. That plus the intrusion of other social media - Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, the various forums that I contribting to by way of my online teaching - it has all drawn me away from this site. Meant a long hiatus. Imagine my pleasure and frustration when i tried today and find that I am able to post. All this stopping and starting isn't good in the long run, at least given the purpose of the blog, which is to attract attention for possible employment, visibility within the artistic community,but seems to be a pattern for me; hot and cold. So, a bit deflated, but hope springs eternal, so will attempt another round of blogging. Plenty to talk about since the the last one.<br />
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Contributed to my first ever Kickstarter campaign, for a book on Ken Dallison, Toronto illustrator extraordinaire, at least to those of us in the field in the 70s and 80s - being put together by Leif peng, of Today's Inspiration Press.</div>
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April has come and gone, but here is a memeory, afavourite illustration i have had ov er th edesk for years, comes in and out of the drawer depending on the season.</div>
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Meant to post this somewhere after I did some more time out at Sheridan - i always love the take the students do on us - Thanks, Jade!</div>
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And this is the biggest thing for me in the last year - attempting to launch something that will go beyond the regular workaday - a series of workshops designed to help people with their drawing and appreciation of research and reference, which i am always going on about - we have done four events so far since February, very successful artistically if not financially - drawing at the ROM, at Kaj Pindals' backyard and at the Tall Ship festival at Harbourfront in July. Will be posting more on this soon. Follow on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/refsketch/</div>
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A quick motion test, done using Photoshop: a simple sketch, applied transformation tool and added a short panning move. Very simply done, but gives surprising good sense of 3D...looks like one of those helicopter shots.</div>
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<br />SCOTT CAPLEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00383231992299446364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9077811632900798271.post-5572696810023057302015-09-09T09:42:00.002-07:002015-09-17T08:16:19.734-07:00end of summerAn image that was not done recently but captures the feeling of the approach of the end of the sailing season....<br />
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<br />SCOTT CAPLEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00383231992299446364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9077811632900798271.post-34418151855510275222015-04-27T11:17:00.001-07:002015-04-27T11:20:14.436-07:00More 2D Camera Movement<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/WcWHv4MuwYA" width="480"></iframe><br />
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sure holds up..hard to believe this is already 20 yrs old.SCOTT CAPLEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00383231992299446364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9077811632900798271.post-22529808803246383442015-04-06T06:05:00.000-07:002015-04-06T06:05:40.883-07:00Once and Future Perspective<div class="p1">
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<span class="s1">Student: "Oh I'm no good at it ".." I can't do perspective...", "...I just want to be a character designer..." </span><br />
<span class="s1">Instructor: "Well, that's OK, </span>I 'll give you a pass, you don't really have to work very hard at anything, the world will give everything for nothing anyway, why don'y you just go and draw the same characters over and over instead."<br />
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<span class="s1">Yes, perspective is one of those things that defeats many. Don’t know why, but it is partly that we no longer live in a world where being able to draw perspective was the norm.</span><br />
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<span class="s1">Or a world where being able to play the piano was the norm.</span><br />
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<span class="s1">Or being able to fix your own car was the norm.</span><br />
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<span class="s1">it isn't considered a fundamental of art training and stopped being taught as such.</span><br />
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<span class="s1">In commercial art of the first part of the twentieth century, traditional art study was still in effect in most places.This meant perspective, academic drawing, painting, anatomical study,etc.</span><br />
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<span class="s1">Solidly structured art was supplanted by more interpretive approaches.</span><br />
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<span class="s1">During the heyday of the career - Nelvana, Bluth, Disney, Pixar etc. - I never really had any discussions about perspective with my peers - that is, the other journeyman level layout artists that I worked with. It was plain they could all pretty much draw the stuff, but we never , at least not often, got into any long form theoretical discussion of horizons, VPs, etc. One would just do a quick sketch of your intentions and make sure that the story points or whatever were clear. It was kind of a given.</span><br />
<span class="s1"> I had never done very much theory of it, i just drew what seems right and it came out.</span><br />
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There was a copy of the "history of Earth by H.G.Wells, who I already connected with War of the Worlds. Had some rather disappointing ink line illustrations<br />
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The local art supply store, J. James and Daughters, carried everything, was the only real source i town for art books ( agian, apart from the public library). They had all the Walter Foster books, the old original ones, large format, picked up several during these years.. They might be considered a bit meh these days, but had some solid tips.<br />
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SCOTT CAPLEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00383231992299446364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9077811632900798271.post-76667482670835808132015-01-28T11:38:00.001-08:002015-01-28T11:38:12.161-08:00Sad BlogFor any of you who may been checking in recently, many apologies...the blog has gotten pretty sad these days. Is it possible that blogs have outlived their usefulness, what with FB and Twitter, etc.? You gotta have something burning pretty bright to be seen out there in the cyber-wilderness...<br />
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here's a match flaring up; I am doing the Intro to Perspective for CGMA again for their Spring Sememster. This didn't go up here in time for potential sign ups, but the class is full, so once more, it's VPs and horizons and grids, oh my!<br />
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<br />SCOTT CAPLEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00383231992299446364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9077811632900798271.post-50977998750363278952014-10-04T22:13:00.002-07:002014-10-04T22:21:25.051-07:00New Post Finally!Hi everyone,<br />
Many reasons for no posts of late, not that there hasn't been a lot going on...<br />
But here is a quick announcement - I am doing the another class for CGMA's new semester, the Intro to Perspective course. This is the third time I have done the course, guess something 's working.<br />
The course consists of some pretty hard core fundamentals - finding basic shapes in more exact ways, that correspond to station point, picture plane, intersecting forms, translation of points, planes and shapes and forms, some using traditional drawing and some using digital 2d techniques...<br />
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<br />SCOTT CAPLEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00383231992299446364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9077811632900798271.post-79539026283515577512014-07-03T21:17:00.002-07:002014-07-03T21:17:58.086-07:00blast from the pastWhile on a search for something else entirely, came across this - imagine my surprise and chagrin to find that I have a place in the Savannah College of Art and Design's art collection, amongst the studio art from Don Bluth, which was all donated to them some time ago. Tons of it.<br />
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<br />SCOTT CAPLEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00383231992299446364noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9077811632900798271.post-81156776452483677382014-06-23T06:57:00.001-07:002014-06-23T06:57:13.622-07:00post TAAFITAAFI done for another year: it must be viewed as a success, as I had an actual table and was selling something for the first time ( apart from Ad Astra last year..)<br />
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Has been said before, but while exhausting, these things are energy builders. its a curious thing, something that really is very inwards looking, only of interest to a niche crowd, can be a defining experience. Sales were slow, only sold about 5 books, didn't come anywhere close to covering costs, but somehow it doesn't matter. Great to see and talk to so many folks, great to have everyone there to help out the fest.Lots of advice and tips on how to improve the presentation, which I will take to heart. Do more Mary Blair type art, I suppose. Or cheesecake.<br />
Didn't have a chance to go to any panels or screenings, except my own: a half hour demo up in the classroom on the 4th floor, reasonably well attended, and which i felt was successful because i winged it, and made a coherent presentation. then the big masterclass on Sunday afternoon, also reasonably attended considering the late slot in the schedule, but not quite so successful in presentation - ihad prepred way too much material and ended up rushing through it. had to slide throught a couple of points where i wasn't sure of my facts. Well, next time. And will follow up here and elswhere online. Great tech help by the all the crew: Reese, Bianca, Stephanie, Natali, thanks!<br />
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Separate shout out to Nick Hendricks, former student, present friend, thanks tons for handling the table while i took off to drink beer- you are very deserving of your good fortune in life!<br />
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Thanks to Ian Heier for the pic;<br />
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SCOTT CAPLEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00383231992299446364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9077811632900798271.post-27745302999414122982014-06-13T14:46:00.001-07:002014-06-13T14:46:19.699-07:00bound for TAAFIWell it's all about TAAFI now - won't be a "con table" virgin for much longer... here's the cover of the art book that will be for sale at table D1! Come on by, hope to see many of you there...looks like i will be seeing many of you directly across from me at your own tables!<br />
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SCOTT CAPLEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00383231992299446364noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9077811632900798271.post-39835060282975305072014-06-05T07:53:00.002-07:002014-06-05T07:56:45.953-07:00MASTERCLASS AT TAAFIAS shown above in the header, the big event this month is the third Toronto Animation Festival.<br />
This year I will be doing a <b>3 hour master class</b> in Location/Environment Design, with the emphasis on <b>perspective</b> drawing and techniques. This going to be interesting, as i am not yet sure how i am going to fill three hours...but i will prepare some things, do some demo stuff, show lots of pictures and trust to luck. I do plan to devote most of the time to <b>more advanced technique</b>. So if perspective is your thing, or you would like it to be, come on out - it 's on Sunday afternoon at 5:30, is up against Eric Oh from Pixar ,<i> </i>and 99 bucks to take - so that's alot fighting it, but will say this, it's not about being showy, it's just about fucking good drawing, so take your pick.<br />
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<br />SCOTT CAPLEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00383231992299446364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9077811632900798271.post-77106171378017571112014-05-20T13:39:00.001-07:002014-05-20T13:39:49.073-07:00NewsA bit late, as I am already a couple of weeks in, but I have started to teach for CGMA, after introducing myself to them last fall at CTN. I am doing one of FOUR classes for Introduction to Perspective. here's the blurb on the site, here's the <a href="http://2d.cgmasteracademy.com/">link</a>:<br />
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Although they have me as a story artist in their teachers' section...<br />
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Class has started and there are 19 of them , so that 's it for next 6 weeks, but stay tuned , I may be doing more, if anyone is interested in shaking off some rust...SCOTT CAPLEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00383231992299446364noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9077811632900798271.post-28003646892208760092014-04-21T11:54:00.001-07:002014-04-21T11:54:01.093-07:00Jim MacAuleyAlready old news, but great news nonetheless.<br />
Saw Jim MacAuley, mentor and teacher of mine and of all the great animators that came out of Sheridan - Mike Surrey, Nik Ranieri, Brian Ferguson, Duncan Marjoribanks, Chuck Gammage, Charlie Bonafacio, Andy Knight, Alvero Gaivoto, Bill Speers, Dean duBlois, Michel Gagne, Glen McQueen and so, so many others.<br />
Any of the tradition of great draughtsmanship that Sheridan is known for ( that's another blog post), the force majeur that Canadian animators became in the commercial industry in the 80s and 90s is directly traceable to this man, with his snow white beard, and his dulcet Glaswegian tones. ( Everyone who studied under him does an imitation.)<br />
Truly a wonderful man who gave freely of his time and talent to those around him.<br />
Jim is near Montreal now, having moved from Perth to be closer to his family, and therefore close enough for an easy visit!<br />
Of course, models and sketches of ships abound:<br />
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as he is looking now, not too shabby!<br />
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Model of the Duchess of Fife, loch steamer<br />
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model in progress on the worktable<br />
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model done for NFB film of Henry Hudson , the ship Half Moon<br />
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pages from jim's present sketchbook - - he's still got it!!<br />
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<br />SCOTT CAPLEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00383231992299446364noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9077811632900798271.post-70406852815342961862014-04-01T17:45:00.000-07:002014-04-01T17:45:13.869-07:00End of MarchGetting a post up for the few of you who are dropping by, despite there being nothing to look at!<br />
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Life continues in Montreal... weather warming up finally... some sketches and few shots of the neighbourhood. still hard to sketch outside, but going to try this week.<br />
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Trois Brasseurs<br />
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Dieu de Ciel<br />
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SCOTT CAPLEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00383231992299446364noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9077811632900798271.post-44364446663029315492014-03-03T22:19:00.002-08:002014-03-03T22:19:56.296-08:00Well, once again I let the blog coming to a roaring halt...the time in Montreal has been fruitful, but between the new surroundings, getting used to new routine ( hey, rhymes with poutine), people and some wi fi issues, not to keeping up the blog.<br />
Here's the deal -- I 've just spent all of January and February at Studio Mikros/Monreal, as part of the production design team for The Little Prince, in production now.<br />
Director Mark Osborn, previously of Kung Fu Panda, pretty neat guy.<br />
International crew, from France, Canada, even a few Americans, from Toronto, Paris, Vancouver, Texas,<br />
Obviously can't show any images of work from the show, but it will be slightly different and hopefully of interest to audiences. Will see what I can do to make this visually interesting.<br />
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Have decamped to montreal for January-February. Working on Little Prince, feature production for Mikros Image. And it's c-c--cold up here.<br />
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<br />SCOTT CAPLEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00383231992299446364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9077811632900798271.post-82439435812291252362013-12-13T18:13:00.001-08:002013-12-13T18:39:22.154-08:00Continuity example<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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An example brought to class by a student, after discussion about screen direction, cutting, etc.<br />
From " He's Just Not That Into You".<br />
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The sequence starts OK, with character B's head visible in the first shot at right, but when the sequence becomes a series of one shots, and the characters are both looking off screen right, it begins to feel as though character B is sitting to the left of A,, and A is looking off into an empty space. Interesting, an example of how real space can be messed up by screen space.<br />
I haven't seen the whole movie, but it seems odd that this got past the editing stage.SCOTT CAPLEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00383231992299446364noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9077811632900798271.post-18301406223965352172013-12-02T20:36:00.002-08:002013-12-02T21:12:52.779-08:00Some how to : Motion Tests using Photoshop instead of AfterEffects Which I Find Too Damn Difficult<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Well, not too damn difficult, but photoshop can yield a pretty decent 2d scene planning test. Although i don't see how to get ease in and out.</div>
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Done with a student's work from my online course ( thanks!)</div>
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This is some draw over to help plus the poses of the action.<br />
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The finished test: a litlle rough, but a good first pass.</div>
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here is a grab of the Timeline window with the layers, timeline, etc. BG layer has been converted to a smart object so it can be transformed as well as moved.</div>
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