Hand-drawn creation

 

First we opened Photoshop and imported the images that we had traced, we then changed the resolution and made sure they were roughly the same size. This made our footage easier to work with later on. I chose to create a bird which I thought would work well with some soft music.

Next we opened after effect and imported our images as footage making sure we ticked the JPEG sequence button before opening. This made our footage import as a movie rather than pictures. This is what made our animation happen.

Once we had our footage we used the stretch tool to make our footage slower, this would make the loop more seamless and easier to work with when the drawing was actually being made.

We then added a background and changed the colour to whatever we wanted. We used the colour correction tool to make our line work stand out more under EFFECT > COLOUR CORRECTION > Hue and saturation. We got rid of the white background using the MULTIPLY effect under the toggle switches and modes button on our bird layer. This was an important step in the process.

Once we had everything sorted we used the pen tool to start the animation.We traced our pencil outline but didn't close the pen line, this made the whole thing possible and gave the drawing effect that we wanted to achieve. I also added some audio that fitted in with my design, once we had done all of this simple process we were pretty much finished. 

Bird render720 from Josh Juhasz on Vimeo.