This line threw me.
Lysander wrote: be shot live action,
If this is true
Lysander wrote: I was thinking of just drawing all of it instead
Then flash is the way to go to put it all together.
Would you be drawing it on paper or in photoshop or illustrator, or programs of the like?
There are a lot of ways to go with this. What do you want final color to look like? Hand colored or solid color? This will affect how you prep your images. If you are going for the hand colored look doing all the drawing before hand the exact way you want it and then scanning it into photoshop would work. I would have everything be a separate image. Background, mid ground and your character, much like the traditional way animators did it. I would then suggest, while in photoshop removing the background from the scan of your character. I would scan at least 150 dpi if not 300. Use the lasso tool to outline your character and then do a 1-2 pixel feather. Make the stuff you want to delete the selection (control I) an delete. This should avoid the "white jagies" of aliasing. I woudl then save it out as a png. It has inherent alpha properties on it so taking itinto flash is easy.
IF you don't want the hand colored look, but still want to hand draw it, I would draw it out, ink the outline and scan it. Take it into photoshop and remove everything but the outline. Something line Adobe Streamline can take a rastoreimage and convert it to line art. From there you could take it into Illustrator or even into Flash and fill it there with color. Flash too has some limited coloring ability but you may not have the control you want.
You could also consider drawing it in illustrator or a like program. I don't suggest flash, it's just to limited for drawing tools.
Feel free to mail me with any other questions or "needs", I am more than happy to help out.
Just an assembly question I have is, will you have something like arm movement? IF so are you going to draw each frame individually or do you want a Original South Park cut-out pieces sort of look to it? This would require making the torso a separte piece from the arm that you could then move around in flash.
This line threw me.
[quote="Lysander"] be shot live action, [/quote]
If this is true
[quote="Lysander"] I was thinking of just drawing all of it instead [/quote]
Then flash is the way to go to put it all together.
Would you be drawing it on paper or in photoshop or illustrator, or programs of the like?
There are a lot of ways to go with this. What do you want final color to look like? Hand colored or solid color? This will affect how you prep your images. If you are going for the hand colored look doing all the drawing before hand the exact way you want it and then scanning it into photoshop would work. I would have everything be a separate image. Background, mid ground and your character, much like the traditional way animators did it. I would then suggest, while in photoshop removing the background from the scan of your character. I would scan at least 150 dpi if not 300. Use the lasso tool to outline your character and then do a 1-2 pixel feather. Make the stuff you want to delete the selection (control I) an delete. This should avoid the "white jagies" of aliasing. I woudl then save it out as a png. It has inherent alpha properties on it so taking itinto flash is easy.
IF you don't want the hand colored look, but still want to hand draw it, I would draw it out, ink the outline and scan it. Take it into photoshop and remove everything but the outline. Something line Adobe Streamline can take a rastoreimage and convert it to line art. From there you could take it into Illustrator or even into Flash and fill it there with color. Flash too has some limited coloring ability but you may not have the control you want.
You could also consider drawing it in illustrator or a like program. I don't suggest flash, it's just to limited for drawing tools.
Feel free to mail me with any other questions or "needs", I am more than happy to help out.
Just an assembly question I have is, will you have something like arm movement? IF so are you going to draw each frame individually or do you want a Original South Park cut-out pieces sort of look to it? This would require making the torso a separte piece from the arm that you could then move around in flash.