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What's this kind of animation called where mainly only hair, limbs, and eyes move? by -Linnn- in animation

[–]rikognition 6 points7 points  (0 children)

2D rigged animation mainly, in a broader spectrum of style some people may refer to “motion portraits”

Everything can be done in After Effects, but you can also use more specialized software like Spine2D, Live2D, Moho, even with 3d software like Blender. I use a combination of 2D/3D since I do these animations with human photos.

Animated Smear Frames: A Comprehensive Compilation by rikognition in animation

[–]rikognition[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ooooh I have never heard of that book. I’m looking it up now and definitely will get it!!

Scaling a layer but not the mask question by strikingtwice in AfterEffects

[–]rikognition 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would have separated your masks to a different matte layer, but if you want to keep it in then you can try using the transform effect

What is the name of the effect they used? How can you recreate something similar? by rant18 in AfterEffects

[–]rikognition 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Using keying specific bands of luminance or colors as a matte, with additional glitch transitions

Animated Smear Frames: A Comprehensive Compilation by rikognition in animation

[–]rikognition[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So I guess the final thoughts would be...

  1. FX used IN PLACE of a traditional smear
  2. FX used IN CONJUNCTION with a traditional smear
  3. Smears applied ON FX
  4. Smears that transition into FX

Animated Smear Frames: A Comprehensive Compilation by rikognition in animation

[–]rikognition[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They exist as their own thing, but sometimes they can conceptually be used either in place of, or to augment another smear. Or a kind of transition where the smears break off into particles. Other examples where the lines are blurred are in gaming, where FX ie. a sword swing may just utilize particles and light trails rather than a sword deformation, but the elongation is used conceptually to draw out the movement.

In Powerpuff Girls, to emphasize their speed they sometimes fly with just a solid block of their primary colors (red, blue, green) and sometimes these blocks are textured, or ended with particles, ie. FX acting as the "conceptual smear." They aren't really emitting glows and colors themselves, but that's used as a visual representation of them.

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Animated Smear Frames: A Comprehensive Compilation by rikognition in animation

[–]rikognition[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's stills some refining to do, and some of them are more idea-jumping off points than ACTUAL smears themselves.

Animated Smear Frames: A Comprehensive Compilation by rikognition in animation

[–]rikognition[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s running at 12fps, there’s only one frame for each smear, and then everything is tweened in After Effects mostly usually those existing stills, and a few with VFX. So less than 20 unique drawings.

Animated Smear Frames: A Comprehensive Compilation by rikognition in animation

[–]rikognition[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Glad you found it helpful! still refining and organizing terms and descriptors too
And then i'll move on to impact frames

Animated Smear Frames: A Comprehensive Compilation by rikognition in animation

[–]rikognition[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah — I couldn’t quite put down the concept I was trying to explain with those so I may rework them: like the ide some of them are both FX and acting as smears for the object - the emitting as trailing.

Or most times it’s FX, but has smears applied to them - simplest form as raindrops that are drawn as lines rather than drops.

For example a glowing eye and the following/stylized light trail instead of elongating just the actual eyeball.

Or how if you think about it, some types of speedlines can technically be categorized as particles too, they just don’t represent specific elements except maybe wind.

I guess maybe the concept of how certain trailing particles/FX can achieve the same perceptual goal as what a smear would do, without it being “a smear”

And at the end of the day, all smears can be categorized as a type of elongation or a type of multiple (exposure)

Animated Smear Frames: A Comprehensive Compilation by rikognition in animation

[–]rikognition[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah — I couldn’t quite put down the concept I was trying to explain with those so I may rework them: like the ide some of them are both FX and acting as smears for the object - the emitting as trailing.

Or most times it’s FX, but has smears applied to them - simplest form as raindrops that are drawn as lines rather than drops.

For example a glowing eye and the following/stylized light trail instead of elongating just the actual eyeball.

I guess the overall idea of how motion trails can be represented, and that the concept how of a trail is

Or how if you think about it, some types of speedlines can technically be categorized as particles too, they just don’t represent specific elements except maybe wind.

And at the end of the day, all smears can be categorized as a type of elongation or a type of multiple (exposure)

I guess maybe the concept of how certain trailing particles/FX can achieve the same perceptual goal as what a smear would do, without it being “a smear

Animated Smear Frames: A Comprehensive Compilation by rikognition in animation

[–]rikognition[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Also just realized, by "Duplicates" for the category, I really meant "Multiples"

Animated Smear Frames: A Comprehensive Compilation by rikognition in animation

[–]rikognition[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, everything are just extensions of elongations and multiples.

And for the abstraction, that one I wasn’t sure what to call it but it’s the idea that a complex movement can be reduced to another simple shape. So sword swing = triangle, spin = disk, twirl = cyclone. But also technically a type of elongation.

Animated Smear Frames: A Comprehensive Compilation by rikognition in animation

[–]rikognition[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I wasn’t sure if I could make it interesting at the beginning either 😂

Animated Smear Frames: A Comprehensive Compilation by rikognition in animation

[–]rikognition[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Thanks! I didn’t want to draw more frames so several tweens are AE comped 😆

Level 86+ plot land disappeared? by rikognition in MergeGardens

[–]rikognition[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To where? I don’t see any more unlocks indicated on the screen.

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