Flour Sack Animation (animated in TVPaint)

Classic animation exercise :  The anthropomorphic "Flour Sack" .  Animated in TVPaint by Ron Zorman.

"Pencil" animation in TVPaint

I've posted a few of these before (check out the older archived posts)  but here are a few examples of how TVPaint mimics the look of traditional pencil on paper animation.

These examples were drawn paperlessly with a Wacom tablet using TVPaint:

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Great little dialogue test animated by Disney/ILM/Dreamworks animator Lou Dellarosa . Paperless animation using TVPaint Animation with Cintiq tablet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjhHAIL1Pm4

Another, more recent, piece of animation done by Lou Dellarosa in TVPaint Animation:

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBIxM4xlAH8

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Rough animation by Pablo Navarro from the short film "Venus and the Sun". Animated boar creature combined with live action. Animation drawn with Wacom Cintiq 21ux tablet in the paperless animation application TVPaint Animation 9.5.

Go to Pablo Navarro's blog http://pablonavarro.wordpress.com to see his WIP rough tests with tie-downs.





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Winner of the July 2001 "11 Second Club" animation competition , by Arthur Gil Larsen. Animated paperlessly using a Wacom tablet , drawing directly into TVP Animation.

http://www.11secondclub.com/competitions/july10/winner/

11 Second Club from Arthur Gil Larsen on Vimeo.

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A paperless animation line test animated by Rasmus Norgaard using "Mirage" (aka "TVPaint v. 7.0" , the predecessor to the current version of TVPaint Animation) . This was animated with a Wacom Intous 3 tablet. It was originally posted on the old Mirage User forums.

https://youtu.be/Grw0IT4UC50 

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Also see this earlier post on the blog about the paperless animation process    used by the Norwegian animation studio Sandes Media on their series of children's films for Norwegian TV based on the songs of folk singer Alf Prøysen -

(click the link to read the earlier blog post)

Alf Prøysens Barnesanger by Sandes Media

 

 Here's a progression reel showing a shot from the Alf Prøysen series from  "pencil test"  to final color .    This is all paperless , made in TVPaint:

This shows this scene in the TVPaint interface:

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Rusty Mills is a classically trained animator who has been on the forefront of embracing the new paperless animation technology . Here are some scenes from Rusty's work-in-progress reel for a film he is making called "Gotcha Covered".

Rusty is animating this film on a Motion Computing tablet PC using Mirage.
(a previous version of TVPaint which is no longer available, but similar to the present TVPaint Animation).

 He did most of this animation while commuting on the train into Los Angeles . Now that's a portable animation tool !




©2008 Rusty Mills


Notice how Rusty's rough animation looks virtually the same as traditional pencil-on-paper animation. There is no discernible difference in this that screams out "digital". The drawings look very natural and organic, like real pencil sketches.


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 Here's another pencil test , animated in TVPaint , by Han Sandrine:

 
11secondsclubaugust from Han Sandrine on Vimeo.

Peg Hole Registration with TVP Animation

Even though TVPaint Animation is great for tablet-based paperless animation , it is also very useful for traditional hand-drawn animation pencil tests.

When scanning drawings it is much faster to use an Auto Document Feed scanner . However, drawings scanned with an ADF scanner are not precisely registered. The peg holes on the individual drawings may shift quite a bit when running through the ADF scanner rollers , causing the drawings to jitter . The peg holes must be aligned.

This is done with the soon-to-be released TVP 9.5 improved Peg Holes Registration function . Drawings are scanned in off-pegs, but are then easily registered and aligned. (previous versions of TVP have used the "2-Point Stabilization" function in the FX Panel to accomplish peg-hole tracking and registration which worked fine, but was not as simple and easy to use as the new Peg Hole Registration function)  UPDATE:   Some 13 years after I first posted this, the Peg Holes Registration function TVPaint version 11.5 is better than ever.   UPDATE #2: And in 2023 , we have TVPaint 11.7.1 , with an improved Peg Hole Registration function. 

Here is an example.

1.) In the first part the peg holes on the raw scans are unaligned and the drawings shift & jitter .

2.) In the second part it shows the same set of drawings with the peg holes aligned using TVP Peg Hole Registration.

Here is the complete rough animation of this scene: This scene is from a pilot for a film that was never completed. The version of this scene that I turned in was more tied-down (and had all the inbetweens) , but I held on to these rough drawings from my first pass on the scene , so decided to use these drawings as a demonstration of how Peg Hole Tracking & Registration works in TVPaint. This does not have all the inbetweens. (also, the sound is missing. There was a line of dialogue at the end.)
NOTE: the grey "schmutz" on the right side of the drawings was caused by shadows on the original scans because I scanned these quickly without closing the scanner lid. I removed the shadows later in TVPaint as you can see in the final pencil test posted below.

UPDATE: Here's a higher res. version (2K) than the 480p version I posted years ago:

 

Old 480p version -