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Steve White explains how you can make your object brushes dance to your tune ples of picture design, backdrops and S special effects. This month, and for the Illl o next few issues, we will be looking at animation f principles and specific techniques applicable to animation, a Obviously, drawing single images is a lot less painless r than creating an animation, but most reputable w art packages include a plethora of differ e er en ha hell of a lot easier, and quicker, than that on <strong>Is</strong>oper. t o Unfortunately, understanding the techniques con take a while and even then, opplying fv them correctly can prove a recurring nightmare. So ue for simplicity's sake, I won't be going into the Nth ns dimension to explain these functions but will provide ct simple techniques with results so that you have ti u o head start for your own experimentation. od Just as with a single image, it is vitally important that you put your animation down on paper First ni in the form of storyboards_ Storyboords are smal s e roughs of the key elements, scenes and camera td angles within an animation. You don't need ht to draw in detail, just enough so that you personaly ah understand what it is you're planning and how it works. t e RENDERING mb OPTIONS The a next thing to do is work out what animated effects ks ore included and the best options for rendering e i (drawing) them, To pinpoint certain aspects ac I will be referring to the animation shown here in the screenshots. The techniques explained np can be employed in many different ways ond with ir any animation, not just the one I have supplied. mi an At the computer, the first thing to do is to design all tcthe objects that will make up your completed onim i (short for animation). Although lilt more appealing to aduolly design as you go, I can guarantee o- you'll eventually wish you hadn't. Create all the n objects and save them independently with suitable o filenames, If you end up with a lot of objects n and they're not properly labelled, you end a up wasting precious time and freaking Out regularly. c With the boring bits out of the way you con then simply click , :;11 o t h e cmFROM i e c e s START TO FINISH tpo g e t h eu r o When zooming objects in you'll quickly reah that the , t that make up the object turn 'blocky' as they are magnified. dThere - is a way around this which entails drawing the original object at its largest size. You can then set the animation position to the last frame in the zoom and render the brush zooming Out, but with the animation running backwards and with a positive value in the End z position. Both D e luxe Pa int and Brillia nce fe a ture a compre he nsive lot Of a nima tion functions, Good brush ma nipula tion is fi a t forspe e d and fle xibinty AMIGA COMPUTING FEBRUARY 1996 Twist and turn it! you'l feel happier, and more confident, spending time getting the finished animation accurate. Both Deluxe Point and Brilliance have powerful Move functions They allow you to set the initial start position of the brush, the end position, os well as any rotations you want to occur throughout the procedure. There are three important values for both position and rotation and these are labelled x, y and z The x and y are the easiest to explain and understand. With x you con move your brush in the horizontal (left and right) and y allows you to move the brush in the vertical (up and down). If you are moving clouds or a ship you would use the x position, and to move a lift or a helicopter you would use y. Z is a different matter altogether. If you can imagine a line travelling straight through the centre of your screen, you will have discovered the z axis When you realise that z moves brushes closer and farther away it is easier to visualise this imaginary line. The position of a brush hos two uses - for moving objects or for camera pans. 11 you move a car off screen horn a standstil then it will be clearly obvious that the abject has itself moved. However, if you move an entire scene off screen then it will appear that the camera has in fact moved (panned' rather than the scene. The Building a n animation is a re la tive ly painless procedure if you stick to the trie d a nd tested methods_ Ignore theme methods a nd you're in trouble same principle also applies to z. You con appear to move an object closer or farther away but by moving the entire scene you give the impression that the camera is zooming in or out. Sorry to go on about x, y and z, but they need to be understood if you are maximise your potential with computer-aided animation. X, y and z also feature with rotation as well as position. Using rotation you can turn your brush in every angle while the brush is being moved through the position axis settings. Rotation is more difficult to grasp than position but if you can imagine the x, y and z position lines on your screen, rotation simply rotates the brush around the corresponding axis, like an apple skewered on a stick. I hove supplied a screensho indicating the position and rotation axis, so if you still can't quite grasp the idea take a look at it. This picture should ittustra te to you the m, y, a position a nd rota tion tine s using your monitor a . a n e xa mple
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