My Animation so far

Process and Equipment set up

The process i'm using to create my animation is called Rotoscoping. It involves drawing over individual frames of video footage to produce a very unique style of animations. Find out more about Rotoscoping on my blog post here.

I start by taking the footage itself in various locations, ensuring there was adequate light and taking composition into account. I then open Photoshop and use the 'Convert video frames to layers' command to open the video as individual layers (making sure to limit the frames of course).

Then begins the lengthy but rewarding process of tracing the resulting images using the Wacom Bamboo tablet. A tool which, given time, becomes very intuitive to use.

Once traced, the layers are exported as JPG image files and imported into Premiere, where i sequence them and keyframe in opacity and motion. As well as adding the soundtrack and ambience. 

This is generally what my workstation looks like. 

Incl. Wacom Bamboo graphics tablet and Adobe Photoshop software.