I can't believe it took me so long to realize this but story boards are just pictures giving the general blueprint of the animation. I've been racking my brain trying to make key moments while doing my best to have them in the right spot in my animation. I felt like I needed to comment this in case someone else was in the same predicament. Don't think of it as a choppy and very basic start to your animation, but rather a slideshow of important moments and key details! I hope this helps someone out there!
thank you so much! I always thought that storyboard need to be super clean even if it's for personal project. But now I understand that as long you're working on the animation alone without no team then you can make your storyboard as messy as you want since you're going to do the animation all by yourself anyway.
i'm thinking of making a short animation for my fyp presentation and this gives me a lot of tips on where i should starts. i have a lot of idea of what i want to make but i'm so lost on how to start it with. thank you
Thank you so much Katie! I’m planning on making more basic/beginner exercises and tutorials but I’d highly recommend checking out the 12 principles of animation (tonnes of videos about them on RU-vid)
Your videos are always awesome! I was wondering if you have any insights for discovering your style & becoming more consistent with it? Would be curious to hear your process. I’m wanting to start a web comic, but I keep finding myself having trouble getting a good style nailed down.
Thanks Nick! Glad you like the videos! I’ll definitely be doing a video on how I found my style and keeping consistent - the latter is something I still struggle with myself since I get a bit impatient when I don’t feel like I’m finishing stuff quick enough 😂
kdsketch - Definitely would love to hear how you did! I need to turn my manic doodles into something more complete and structured. But yeah, I imagine consistency becomes a bit easier when you feel confident in what you’re doing.
Kdsketch thank you so much. I'm very confused of krita when i first installed it on my tablet. Can you also help us how to make a background for animation?
Krita had an update recently and they've added a camera, I'm not certain on the details because they haven't posted the update to the windows store version (which I have). if you're using Krita to animate I'd suggest storyboarding in the program storyboarded by wonder unit - it's free and has a tonne of great tools and it's much easier to time out your drawings on that program. If you then export as a PNG sequence you could bring that back into Krita to work on top of/animate on. Hope this helps!
in my sketchbook tutorial I go over how to export your animation (toward the end of the video) you need to make sure it's exported as a .mp4 or .mov to then upload to youtube :)
the layers should all be at different depths (closer to or further from the camera) so when you move the camera they will look like they're moving. layers that are closer to the camera will move faster. If you want them all to move at the same speed then they need to be at the same depth.
So as I move stuff to the other side in the same speed, there's only one problem: I want to move the animated objects in the same speed with the other objects but the thing about putting the layers in the same depth, well it seems a little complicated when I try to merge the animated objects onto the same layer.
