This is EXACTLY what I was looking for. I wanted to try making something in the style of Ashley Wood's work on MGS: Peace Walker, so this will come in handy as a reference. Thanks for making this helpful resource!
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Geryalvi Batista It really depends on what contract you signed with your artist because if your artist says “sure no problem I’ll draw foregrounds and backgrounds and separate layers for free” then it’s great and it’s wonderful for you, but it does take more time and your artist might charge you more.
@@bloyomind1on1 Good question! There are very few that will have the background cut out. But I would go to Facebook and join some of the comic creator groups - there are lots. CONNECTING COMIC BOOK WRITERS AND ARTISTS has 29,000 members. ICC is good too. Ask an artist if you can borrow a panel in exchange for posting your animation on RUclips. That's better than taking comic pages from the internet which you can do in a pinch but never never publish that animation without permission. If you don't have any luck I can send you a panel!
Wait, I’m just wondering How do u animate something if it has an object behind the character For example, the character is infront of the table and the table has differing shadings What do u do and how do u animate fog and mist?
Lombaxlover 123 That’s a really good question. In Photoshop everything is in layers so you can put the characters in front of the table and animate everything separately. animating smoke and fog would be very difficult so I would recommend that you use real fog or smoke stock video that’s on a black background. You can then change the blend mode and make the black background disappear. You can animate shadows or adjustment layers if you want to change the shading.
Damian Wampler I don’t really use photoshop for animating, I use sony Vegas What id like to do is cut the characters from the background and objects that I’d like to move and then fill the spaces in I cant really do that but I was wondering maybe you could make a tutorial or maybe you could help me out cutting them out? I’m making a comic dub series and I want it to be a motion comic Would you be interested in helping me?
@@lombaxlover1234 So your're saying that you have panels and you need to cut out the characters and fill in the background. This can only be done with Photoshop as far as I know. There are some apps for iPhone and android that also cut out people from photos and fill in the background, but I'm not sure that you'll get what you need from that. I can certainly do a tutorial about filling in the background in Photoshop. This is the difficult part for everyone. You can also pay people to do it!
@@lombaxlover1234 Are you the artist? Making basic animations in After Effects and even apps like Werble is easy. If you can get the characters onto transparent layers then it's possible. Don't give up! The app called Adobe Mix and many others can remove backgrounds. Then, try using solid color backgrounds instead of trying to fill the holes in an existing background.
If you want to make something similar on a phone, try making clips in Werble and then putting them together in a video editor. Werble can handle transparent layers, so you can do some complex stuff.
Ethan Daigle hey, let me know exactly where the issue is. Are you in Photoshop? Most often, cut doesn’t work because you are in the wrong layer. Maybe you are on a transparent part of a letter. Or you need command x.
@@TheJack2459 Hey, just describe where you are and exactly what you're doing and I'll try to see what's going on. The pen tool has tons of different options. You can unclick the path but deleting the path is different, you'd have to hit the trash can.
Your artist would need to be willing to do that from the early stages of project development. It means more work and more money. So if you put it in the contract then yes you can have them put the character on a different layer.
This is EXACTLY what I was looking for. I wanted to try making something in the style of Ashley Wood's work on MGS: Peace Walker, so this will come in handy as a reference. Thanks for making this helpful resource!
Let me know if you have any questions or requests!
ruclips.net/p/PLc-9bGHGeXj5ceC4xvoB1o0i_09fGAOsM
tnx mr wampler / it was very helpful for me......
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Great video! Very succinct.
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Can you put this in a playlist with the other tutorials? They do not auto start currently. I have to search for them.
They're all here ruclips.net/p/PLc-9bGHGeXj5ceC4xvoB1o0i_09fGAOsM
It's simplier to keep the character separated from background elements
Yes but you would have to put in your contract with your artist that they draw the elements separately. And that will cost more money.
@@DamianWampler so it costs more money just for them to put it in another layer?
Geryalvi Batista It really depends on what contract you signed with your artist because if your artist says “sure no problem I’ll draw foregrounds and backgrounds and separate layers for free” then it’s great and it’s wonderful for you, but it does take more time and your artist might charge you more.
@@DamianWampler oh, I see. Yeah that makes sense. So how could I find comic panels like that for me to practice? Any places or ways you'd recommend?
@@bloyomind1on1 Good question! There are very few that will have the background cut out. But I would go to Facebook and join some of the comic creator groups - there are lots. CONNECTING COMIC BOOK WRITERS AND ARTISTS has 29,000 members. ICC is good too. Ask an artist if you can borrow a panel in exchange for posting your animation on RUclips. That's better than taking comic pages from the internet which you can do in a pinch but never never publish that animation without permission. If you don't have any luck I can send you a panel!
Awesome
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Wait, I’m just wondering
How do u animate something if it has an object behind the character
For example, the character is infront of the table and the table has differing shadings
What do u do and how do u animate fog and mist?
Lombaxlover 123 That’s a really good question. In Photoshop everything is in layers so you can put the characters in front of the table and animate everything separately. animating smoke and fog would be very difficult so I would recommend that you use real fog or smoke stock video that’s on a black background. You can then change the blend mode and make the black background disappear. You can animate shadows or adjustment layers if you want to change the shading.
Damian Wampler I don’t really use photoshop for animating, I use sony Vegas
What id like to do is cut the characters from the background and objects that I’d like to move and then fill the spaces in
I cant really do that but I was wondering maybe you could make a tutorial or maybe you could help me out cutting them out? I’m making a comic dub series and I want it to be a motion comic
Would you be interested in helping me?
@@lombaxlover1234 So your're saying that you have panels and you need to cut out the characters and fill in the background. This can only be done with Photoshop as far as I know. There are some apps for iPhone and android that also cut out people from photos and fill in the background, but I'm not sure that you'll get what you need from that. I can certainly do a tutorial about filling in the background in Photoshop. This is the difficult part for everyone. You can also pay people to do it!
Damian Wampler oh dear...perhaps I’m not ready to make a motion comic yet 😔
Thank you anyway
@@lombaxlover1234 Are you the artist? Making basic animations in After Effects and even apps like Werble is easy. If you can get the characters onto transparent layers then it's possible. Don't give up! The app called Adobe Mix and many others can remove backgrounds. Then, try using solid color backgrounds instead of trying to fill the holes in an existing background.
im using after effect to animate the movement, never though it could also be done in photoshop
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nice vidéo !
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how do you stretch the background without pulling the image away at the anchor point? I can do it with the marquee tool but your using the lasso.
So we can do only in computer....? Not in phone??
If you want to make something similar on a phone, try making clips in Werble and then putting them together in a video editor. Werble can handle transparent layers, so you can do some complex stuff.
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Dope
Can you do that on the new iPad Pro 2 ?
Wow ok I need to go buy an iPad Pro. I don't know what app can do this on iPad. Anyone know?
Wow ok I need to go buy an iPad Pro. I don't know what app can do this on iPad. Anyone know?
Wow ok I need to go buy an iPad Pro. I don't know what app can do this on iPad. Anyone know?
cmd + x doesn't work or im doing something wrong. idk. Any help would be appreciated. thanks
Ethan Daigle hey, let me know exactly where the issue is. Are you in Photoshop? Most often, cut doesn’t work because you are in the wrong layer. Maybe you are on a transparent part of a letter. Or you need command x.
@@DamianWampler same problem... seems to be deleting the path :/
@@TheJack2459 Hey, just describe where you are and exactly what you're doing and I'll try to see what's going on. The pen tool has tons of different options. You can unclick the path but deleting the path is different, you'd have to hit the trash can.
Going to have to go to the pirate bay,
(Sigh.)
It's worth it though.
How long did this and the animation take you in total?
I can do them very quickly these days but still, each panel can take 1-2 hours.
Why not draw the character in a different layer to begin with?
Your artist would need to be willing to do that from the early stages of project development. It means more work and more money. So if you put it in the contract then yes you can have them put the character on a different layer.