Pencil Test Help

[mexifry]

I know this is probably a really stupid and rudimentary question, but i have a problem when scanning getting more than one layer to show up at once. (IE when you have a scene with one character leading, other reacting, background statics, special effects, etc.) At this point im not using any particular pencil test software, but is there a way to solve this without having to buy/pirate more software? Right now i have Flash CS3, Photoshop CS4, and After Effects CS4.

Any help would be great!

[rtil]

when i did pencil tests i did them at school, and they had a special scanner with pegs and we used an application called flipbook. it was a piece of junk, but it did what it was supposed to - automatically cancel out whites on the layers so that you could have multiple columns of animation moving together without you having to do anything extra.

if you're doing it in photoshop, just the layers to multiply. you could probably do this in flash too. kinda sounds like a bitch though. try and find some pencil test software lke flipbook.

[GhostingFish]

idk if this is on-topic or not, but...



to take out the white background of paper via scanned, gimp has an option that can remove whites(or any solid colour).

colours>[colour to alpha]

done

[mexifry]

when i did pencil tests i did them at school, and they had a special scanner with pegs and we used an application called flipbook. it was a piece of junk, but it did what it was supposed to - automatically cancel out whites on the layers so that you could have multiple columns of animation moving together without you having to do anything extra.

if you're doing it in photoshop, just the layers to multiply. you could probably do this in flash too. kinda sounds like a bitch though. try and find some pencil test software lke flipbook.

Seeing as i dont have the liberty of campus materials atm, ill look for software. Flipbook is what people have been recommending, but i mean that is even $300 just for a single function program, which i think is ridiculous.

I heard there was an open-source program, but its only for windows, so I can just run it through WINE if i had to.

Can you animate in photoshop? I rarely use photoshop aside from doodling so I dont really know much.

Thanks!

[GhostingFish]

itll use WAY too much ram/memory.


idk..
http://www.pencil-animation.org/

[rtil]

when i did pencil tests i did them at school, and they had a special scanner with pegs and we used an application called flipbook. it was a piece of junk, but it did what it was supposed to - automatically cancel out whites on the layers so that you could have multiple columns of animation moving together without you having to do anything extra.

if you're doing it in photoshop, just the layers to multiply. you could probably do this in flash too. kinda sounds like a bitch though. try and find some pencil test software lke flipbook.

Seeing as i dont have the liberty of campus materials atm, ill look for software. Flipbook is what people have been recommending, but i mean that is even $300 just for a single function program, which i think is ridiculous.

I heard there was an open-source program, but its only for windows, so I can just run it through WINE if i had to.

Can you animate in photoshop? I rarely use photoshop aside from doodling so I dont really know much.

Thanks!

yes, photoshop has animation tools. but it's not ideal in situations where you're using a lot of layers, and i'd imagine with scanning each frame, there will be a lot of layers

for flipbook, you should look for a cracked version. might be hard to find, but i'm sure someone's done it

[mexifry]

yes, photoshop has animation tools. but it's not ideal in situations where you're using a lot of layers, and i'd imagine with scanning each frame, there will be a lot of layers

for flipbook, you should look for a cracked version. might be hard to find, but i'm sure someone's done it

Alright ill take a look for it.

[GhostingFish]

http://motgocnho.com/download/apps/FlipBook.rar

Is this it?

[mexifry]

http://motgocnho.com/download/apps/FlipBook.rar

Is this it?

i couldnt tell ya. Im on a mac and theres .exe files in there

[rtil]

oh you're on a mac... well you're probably shit out of luck then