As you’ve seen in Rick Black, i’m fond of mask interpolation in Adobe After Effects. It consists of me making my keyframes in Illustrator and pasting each path onto a solid layer as a mask in After Effects. The technique is vastly time consuming and tedious but being able to manipulate the time between keyframes and frames per second, which you can probably do in Flash, is a pretty nice trade-off.
The difference between this and Rick Black as you can see is the use of color. Since i have to make a mask for each moving piece, i ended up with 27 different layers to make the character which is a huge step up from Black’s five (the arms were separate).
The finished video will showcase a few techniques i’ve yet to experiment with so it won’t be anything too fancy or mindblowing. stay tuned.
Wahay the link to your blog is magically fixed. Anyway good stuff mate! How’s the summer been? D’you check my interview?
Comment by Kenneth Coker — 07.09.2009 @ 1:11 am
You do the damn thing. Is that a cape?
Comment by Billy Welch — 07.11.2009 @ 11:41 pm
haha. its a hood
Comment by Bryan — 07.13.2009 @ 2:45 pm