In the spirit of trying something new, I wanted to attempt to animate using a technique that I’ve seen done before where each frame is drawn on a sticky note. However, I plan to have a light shine behind the sticky note to the drawing lights up. After animating a short clip to test it out, I ran into a couple problems.
- The lighting would change significantly in some shots as opposed to others. This creates a terrible “flicking” effect that no one likes.
- The animation is not very centered on the object moving due to the sticky notes not being placed in consistent positions.
After playing through the clip a number of times, I concluded that I need a better way to know where to stick the next note and so on. Maybe an onionskinning feature would be useful or perhaps a square on my laptop that shows where to place them. Also, I need to figure out certain settings that evenly light the frame so I don’t get awkward light changes between frames as shown below…
