This video show how you can use hooks to connect your cut-out character more flexibly, so that he can move more fluidly by using frame by frame animation in OpenToonz. These can be used to allow your rigs to:
1. Have movements that you can't create with rotation/resizing using the animate tool. Twists, turns, extreme bends
2. Have different hand positions, for pointing, making fists, open hand, etc
3. Have smear frames in the rig
4. Create transformations (to change from a robot to a car, for instance)
To do this, you put a hook point on one level (in our case the body), move the hook point in any subsequent drawings on that level to match the movement of the drawing - each drawing shares the same number of hook points, but the position can vary for each drawing) and then add a hook point on the joining level (again moving them for each drawing if you have multiple drawings) and then connect the hook point numbers on the stage schematic. Like a lot of OpenToonz techniques, this takes longer to explain that to do and can be hard to demonstrate, so you might need to watch parts of the video more than once.
Previously, I covered the basics to create a simple, 2-part, character (BB-8, the droid from Star Wars) and a more-complex skeleton character. You can see the full cut-out playlist here: • Easy cut-out animation...
I try to speed through my explanations as quickly as I can, speeding up the drawing where necessary, so you're not just watching me draw, but there's a lot to get through and I try to give out as many tips as possible along the way, but if you want to skip through the video, here's the list of topics I cover.
Contents:
00:00 Intro
00:33 The problem of not using hooks
02:56 Adding hooks to the body (drawing 1) and the arms and head
04:40 Moving the hook points for body drawing number 2
05:40 Attaching layers together via hooks
08:27 Moving the hook points for body drawings 3 & 4
09:47 The animation, with hooks
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3 авг 2024
