Storyboarding a Stop-Motion Animated Film 

Yeah he should make himself and make him do a comedy one day build, that goes wrong but he sorts it out just in time.

One thing this teaches me is the importance of teamwork.

DIdnt he say that as well, he was doing another scene when his colleague did a different camera angle

I know what you mean. I'm hoping to get into 2D animation, but when I get to college I'll do the whole rounds of 2D, 3D, storyboarding, etc.

Micheal Homen Looks like Photoshop to me! There’s also storyboarding software like Storyboard Pro but I believe this is plain old Photoshop

@siskavard Calling it what it is. 😊

iNerdier it depends on the brush and computer, since this is hooked up to a laptop it is a bit slower. But on a high end pc there is practically no lag

iNerdier you learn to work with it

its not the cintiq, its the crappy laptop. his workflow is also horribly inefficient. im guessing he mostly draws on paper and scans the results, he was just drawing on the tablet because adam asked him to.

J & E Carpenter why hello

Wandering Trapinch why not

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J & E Carpenter I think they were replying not questioning...

Hello

Jim Steinbrecher Many of us are just used to Photoshop from using it on other projects. We can also come up with our own workflow that works better for us personally.

not sure who "us" is in that sentence, but clearly his workflow (as seen in this video) doesnt work better than using actual sketching / storyboarding / animation software. hes switching between groups of layers and manually dragging sliders to do onionskinning, when there is software that does all that (and more) just by pressing the buttons on the side of the tablet. its the equivalent of formatting text by manually adding spaces. or maybe using stone tools in the bronze age. ;) photoshop (as the name and popular use of the term suggests) is mainly a photo retouching application. its not particularly powerful (and certainly not _efficient_ ) for drawing. if youre going to do a job 100 thousand times over three years, investing a couple of days learning to use a new tool that will save 30% of your time is a good move. the lag on the brushstrokes was also pretty bad, but that might just be due to a slow laptop, and not photoshop specifically (ie, other software might have the same problem). im guessing he mostly draws on paper and scans the results, or he would be using better tools by now.

Yet he's the one working for Aardman animation studios...I think he knows what he's doing and what software works for his particular work flow.

you must be very young or inexperienced if you think that everyone is 100% efficient at their job, or using the ideal tools. he is dragging opacity sliders to do onionskinning. if youve ever worked in animation (which i have for nearly 30 years, btw - and i find new and better tools all the time), you know how inefficient that is, and why animators dont use photoshop. in fact, at one point he even comments on how inefficient that is, and that he "needs to set up some actions" (photoshop macros). so what does that do to your "argument from authority"? if _he_ says what he is doing is inefficient, does that make it inefficient (thus agreeing with me)? or is he using a perfect workflow and contradicting himself? bit of a dilemma there, eh?

thanks for reiterating that platitude, but if you actually listen to the video, you'll see that even _he_ complains about the workflow. clearly, he doesn't usually draw on the tablet, he draws on paper and then scans it, that's why he's not using dedicated tools (and doesnt even have photoshop actions set up properly).

It's about pulling back the curtain and revealing the wizards behind it. If all you see is advertising a movie then maybe this series is not for you. I am thoroughly enjoying seeing how the people are doing jobs I only knew existed in theory. What they look like, how they talk about it, their passion and skills.

It would be impossible to produce content like this without it being "Ad-like". In fact, every product review or look would be "ad-like" as well, literally every video on this channel could be an ad if you wanted to be pedantic. And if they were being paid it would be disclosed in the video, its required now by youtube and they openly disclose on many other videos.

No one is forcing you to watch these videos. They are not only advertising the movie (SURPRISE, you are not special or smart for figuring this out), they are also giving an insiders look at what it takes to make a movie like this.

They would have the name of the film in the title if so