Techniques of Animation

Onion skinning:
Animators lay transparent cels on the top of other, rather than working in isolation. It helps to see previous & following frames while drawing the current one.
Easy way to complete sequence of frames at a glace & to see how each frame flows into the frames before and after.

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Onion skinning:

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Motion cycling:
Human and animal motion is basically a repetitive action, that is best represented by a cycle. A walk cycle requires from 8 to 12 frames.
The sequence usually falls into 2 halves.

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Motion cycling:

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Masking:
A mask protects part of a frames from effects of other editing tools. It can be used to make an animated object move behind the protected area.

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Masking:

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Adding sound:
Sound is an important enhancement to moving images. Background music can evoke emotions. Narration or voice-over can provide information that is missing from visual images. Types:
Synchronous sound Asynchronous sound

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Flip-book Animation:
A book with a series of pictures that vary gradually from one page to the next.
When the pages are turned rapidly, the pictures appear to animate by simulating motion or some other change. Flip books are a primitive form of animation. The first flip book appeared in September, 1868, by John Barnes Linnett under the name kineograph ("moving picture").

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Flip-book Animation:

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Rotoscoping:
Rotoscoping is an animation technique in which animators trace over live-action film movement, frame by frame, for use in animated films. Pre-recorded live-action film images were projected onto a frosted glass panel and re-drawn by animator.
In the visual effects industry, the term rotoscoping refers to the technique of manually creating a matte for an element on a live-action plate so it may be placed over another background.

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Rotoscoping:

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Bluescreening:
A technique for shooting live action against a even colored blue background and then replacing the background by another image.
Nowadays extensively used as chroma-keying using digital editing tools.

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Color cycling:
A technique used in computer graphics in which colors are changed in order to give the impression of animation.
storing one image and changing its palette required less memory and processor power than storing the animation as several frames.

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Morphing:
The process of smooth interpolating between two different images. When played back it appears that the first image gradually and seamlessly changes into the second image.

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Morphing:

Techniques of Animation
Morphing: