Animation Instruction

Animation Tools

https://sketch.metademolab.com/ Runway ML

ChatGPT + Dall-e - still photos arranged into a sprite sheet, then displayed in sequence at speed, yielding a GIF animation. By using 'tween' fills, we can smooth out the action. Sprite Sheets - animation using ChatGPT & Dall-e

Changing videos into animations, by overlays, face swaps, deep fakes.

Motion capture video, mapping animation to live actor.

Blender
- Python code, written by ChatGPT, that imports seamlessly into Blender.

Unreal Engine

After Effects

Animation Resources

There's a lot of free animation clips and effects in the public domain, and open-source animation.

https://stock.adobe.com/sg/search?k=cartoon%20background
Image editing
Lip Synching
Stop-motion Photography, Claymation
Animation Editors (software)
Animated Overlays
Magical effects
Animated characters mixed with human beings.
video on a animated background that loops
short clips of full animation, within videos
Copyright-free stock footage of animation
Free Animated Effects
Free Animated Backgrounds

copyright-free assets

- .png, .jpg, .gif images (raster clip art)
- set backdrops, overlays (transparent backgrounds)
- vector images

- 2D animated GIFs
- 3D animated GIFs (transparent background)

- animated effects, smoke car exhaust, magic powers

Animation Projects

1. Peppa Pig

2. Miss Bimbo (animated character, 'game')

3. Animated music videos (kids)

4. Lofi Girl

Song Animation

Kid's song, colorful, bouncing head, 1,2,3 eating apples, 1.6 Billion views

FINGER ANIMATION

Like Barbie, or Peppa Pig playouse.

Occasional seconds of real animation where fingers would look awkward or need magical effects.

Lofi Girl

Looping Animation, using hand drawing or tools, with an excellent, related soundtrack (License), Meditation - Monoman .beautiful comment section peaceful relaxing soothing 57 million views

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfKfPfyJRdk - Lofi Girl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTRiuFIWV54 - 100 million views - Lofi Girl Midnite Study Session

Multi-hour animated videos, with long looping time, and different loops with random events, original mellow music, which itself loops. Passive game. Sexy manga and anime.

Simple animation-like effects or overlays, or backgrounds that appear to move left to right, panning, or zoom in or out. animations on a loop, with automated, random decision trees. Image effects

Animate using Mapping, 3d capture

in VR, one way to manipulate objects is to wear a glove, and map the glove in space using lasers (like a gamebox), and have the motions of the glove mapped within the virtual world. Also, on various screens, there are libraries of 3-D objects that you can select and place into the background with the glove. Having pressed record, you can then move the object in the background in real time, and then press play and you havce 3-D animation.

new ways to animate using multiple cameras and software, tracking moving images in real time, and translating characters into animation. Can map these characters onto backgrounds, and even moving backgrounds, perspectives shadows, light source, etc. look into how games are made.

Start or Join a Community

Communities of artists and developers, open-source, code sharing, downloads, charcters, backgrounds. The tools to build animation are unclear and complex. It's become an information accomplishment, and accumulation of many diverse efforts, especially in open source.

Large studios like Pixar, have developed in-house software to speed production, as well as house libraries of completed work to reuse. Further, by gathering together talented artists, animators, storytellers, and other staff, the elements of production may come together into a completed work.

Blender

Adobe Creative Suite
Motion Tracking
- Adobe CC
- Fire Fly
- Adobe Animate
- Adobe Character Generator

Pixar, Disney