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Animating Nozzles / Record and Playback Strokes




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Here is the movie I made using the horse's nozzle. And I'll let it play several times so you can get the idea, that what I did was I created a smaller sized sequence in the back or at the upper part of the frame, and then a medium size in the center, and then of course the largest one in the front. Of course it is not realistic, I wasn't expecting it to be and I hope you weren't either. I actually kind of like that; it is a sort of a hi-tech way that we are doing an imitation of much earlier technology over a 100 years ago as a matter of fact. So around the same time that Mybridge was photographing his horses and other animals and people in motion, I believe that was like around the birth of the prototype of moving pictures. The spinning drum where just by creating a fast enough spin you got the illusion of motion between still images. So how did I do this, no problem. Let's just make a new frame stack, so we will go to, I have the same dimensions here that I had before. It's about twice as wide as it is high and a movie with 12 frames and it will ask me to call it something, so let's call it horse race. In case I have one already, I'll call it horse race 2, accept the defaults and let these frames get created. Just to check to make sure that my rank is controlled by sequence, I made it sequential, rather than any of these other kinds of things in all ranks even though I only have one rank just to be on the safe side. Let me just make a practice stroke here, see what size they are, that looks like kind of a medium size. Notice that I have a linear kind of application chosen as opposed to a spray. And I have angle control by bearing, which I don't have available to me, nor do I have a wheel. Either one of those will give me the same size of horse which is controlled at this point. I am going to make that size a bit smaller, that's more like it. And just undo both of those, and now I am ready to record a stroke. And that stroke will be along the top and now I can undo it and ask for the movie menu, apply brush stroke to movie. And that stroke gets divided by however many frames I have, let's just see what that looks like then - not too bad. So let's do something similar with a somewhat larger size, and let's record a stroke in the center approximately and I'll undo that as well. And then have that brush stroke applied to the movie. Ok, one more round, let's move that size up just a bit; is that going to be a good size? I think so, and we will record this next stroke along the bottom. And I'll undo that and then apply that brush stroke to the movie. Now let's play it, and other things can be done here: we could add elements, we could add a background. We could change their colors, we could certainly add even more horses but I think you get the idea.

Tutorial Information

Course: Painter 7 Techniques
Author: Rhoda Grossman
SKU: 33379
ISBN: 1932072071
Release Date: 2002-09-27
Duration: 7 hrs / 118 lessons
Work Files: Yes
Captions: For Online University members only
Compatibility: Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux
QuickTime 7, Flash 8

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