Learn Cartoon Animator 5 - Lesson 1 - Setting the Stage — Transcript

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1. 0:01[Music]
2. 0:14hello and welcome today we're going to
3. 0:16be working with cartoon animator
4. 0:205 Okay so we've gone ahead and selected
5. 0:23a scene here by double clicking on the
6. 0:27scene I've gone ahead and selected a
7. 0:29park Ben and
8. 0:32park and I just wanted to show you by
9. 0:35shrinking the scene down a little bit
10. 0:38this red border that's the actual what
11. 0:41you're going to see in the camera when
12. 0:44um when it
13. 0:49renders and then here you can see that
14. 0:51if you click on the scene list here I've
15. 0:54turned on the
16. 0:56highlighter uh you
17. 0:58can un click all of those and see how
18. 1:02these are layered into the
19. 1:11scene so you can have these on or off or
20. 1:15put different backgrounds in different
21. 1:18things you can change the scenes
22. 1:21around but I pretty much stick to what
23. 1:24comes with it I'm pretty new at this
24. 1:33okay we'll go ahead and uh select an
25. 1:36actor and we'll put an actor out onto
26. 1:40the
27. 1:51stage yeah I'll size him up
28. 2:05okay and then uh in a few minutes we'll
29. 2:06go in and we'll make a couple
30. 2:08conversions here to take off his hat and
31. 2:11his
32. 2:26glasses so if you're on the very first
33. 2:28frame and you move him around he doesn't
34. 2:31make a little path but if you move him
35. 2:34forward on the timeline and then move
36. 2:37him then you're going to have him follow
37. 2:40that path that you just
38. 2:46saw which is great we already have a
39. 2:49direction that we're going to head him
40. 2:51kind of towards the bench and then he'll
41. 2:54walk off the scene here so now we're
42. 2:56going to go and we're going
43. 2:58to go into to the templates and we're
44. 3:01going to find a
45. 3:09motion we give awae
46. 3:16motion let's go ahead and repeat
47. 3:27that okay got keep adding a couple more
48. 3:31of
49. 3:43those okay that looks pretty good we'll
50. 3:46get him walking off the scene
51. 3:50here all right
52. 4:00let's take a look at
53. 4:08that yeah that looks pretty
54. 4:27good okay at this point we're going to
55. 4:29go ahead and open up the Sprite
56. 4:32editor and we go ahead and remove his
57. 4:35hat you can see how easy this
58. 4:38is just click on any object up
59. 4:42above and if you click the empty space
60. 4:45below then that object will disappear
61. 4:48off the character and if you ever want
62. 4:50to put them back on you
63. 4:51just reverse this process
64. 5:12okay so now we've made a couple changes
65. 5:14here to our
66. 5:22actor now we'll work on his head motions
67. 5:24a little bit by using the face editor
68. 5:34I like to just move them a little bit
69. 5:35down the
70. 5:36timeline and then make a little
71. 5:39adjustment then move them a little
72. 5:44more and then what happens is it ends up
73. 5:47blending the
74. 5:55Motions which makes it look pretty
75. 5:57natural that looks good
76. 6:15all right
77. 6:19good so now we can open up the timeline
78. 6:22click on this uh
79. 6:24second button here and it reduces it
80. 6:27down to just the actor that's
81. 6:29highlighted which is really convenient
82. 6:31for
83. 6:34finding the track that you want to be
84. 6:37working
85. 6:44on so I've gone ahead and moved the red
86. 6:47stop so that we're only going to record
87. 6:51just what's between the two red icons
88. 7:04save that all right here we
89. 7:13go so now we're going to go ahead and
90. 7:16just uh set up the for uh rendering the
91. 7:19clip and put it into the
92. 7:23MP4 and we always want the 1080i setting
93. 7:27when we're doing this wide screen and
94. 7:30just make sure that the frames that we
95. 7:32want to export are there
96. 7:35which is correct now give the movie A a
97. 7:43name and since this is going to we're
98. 7:46building this for hound dog news and
99. 7:49this is actually going to be part of the
100. 7:51episode that you get to be a part of
101. 7:54this be episode three
102. 8:02and we'll be sure to go to cap cut
103. 8:04and and you can see how that builds into
104. 8:07the
105. 8:09movie this is a work in
106. 8:15progress yeah that looks pretty so
107. 8:19uh let's give this a moment here
108. 8:32okay we'll set up here to edit the hand
109. 8:36Sprite uh his hand flipped over a few
110. 8:39times when we put in the walk cycle so
111. 8:41we'll fix
112. 8:43that okay here we're going to start
113. 8:45working on
114. 8:47the flipping the hand over and what
115. 8:51happens when you're uh putting in a a
116. 8:54walk cycle is everywhere each time the W
117. 8:58walk cycle starts s um for some reason
118. 9:02it flips the Sprite of the hands or some
119. 9:05of the Sprites over um and it's pretty
120. 9:08easy to go in and and change it um we do
121. 9:12this about six times here
122. 9:15um and while I was doing this I was so
123. 9:19busy just watching the hand that I
124. 9:22wasn't paying attention to the timeline
125. 9:24below and you'll notice that those
126. 9:27diamonds there all we had to do is line
127. 9:29up with the
128. 9:31diamonds um I'm watching the hand and
129. 9:34I'm pushing the arrow key here and
130. 9:37looking for exactly the frame where the
131. 9:39hand flip
132. 9:41back okay but if you look down below on
133. 9:43the timeline there you'll see those
134. 9:45three diamonds and there goes the fourth
135. 9:47diamond right there as
136. 9:49I added the the movement to the
137. 9:53hand okay so each time we just go line
138. 9:56up with those dots I could have done
139. 9:58this really quick but I was kind of
140. 10:00being silly here and and watching the
141. 10:02hand rather than the
142. 10:04timeline so when you do it you can you
143. 10:07know that all you have to do is line up
144. 10:10there make your adjustment flip the
145. 10:13hand you're
146. 10:15done so pretty much it's just deciding
147. 10:18what uh position you want the hands to
148. 10:21be in depending on the character and the
149. 10:24scene that you're
150. 10:26creating you have a lot of choices
151. 10:29we're just going with a relaxed
152. 10:39hand okay I think that's uh about it for
153. 10:42that
154. 10:46stage yeah we'll save our work and move
155. 10:57on now let's go go ahead and and start
156. 11:01with this I've changed the hand position
157. 11:04as you saw uh last night I went ahead
158. 11:07and worked on the Park Bench so I'm
159. 11:10going to just take
160. 11:12you uh to where we
161. 11:15were park bench was
162. 11:20sitting uh somewhere about here when we
163. 11:24started this project okay and so I've
164. 11:28come in
165. 11:32and I'll highlight the bench sometimes
166. 11:35you can't highlight it on the screen you
167. 11:36just come over here where get it
168. 11:39unstuck okay
169. 11:42and my mouse movements let me explain
170. 11:45this really when I click it turns green
171. 11:48if I double click you'll see two green
172. 11:50flashes and right clicking is
173. 11:53blue okay and so when you see me click
174. 11:56on something you're see a green flash
175. 12:00on now I'm going to hold this the left
176. 12:03Mouse down and
177. 12:05click so you'll see the green maintain
178. 12:09itself go out of the scene through the
179. 12:13pictures boom there we are and now I
180. 12:17just need to make
181. 12:20this rolling the mouse here okay now
182. 12:23we'll make bench smaller put it back
183. 12:27there and it'll fit nicely in into the
184. 12:31background cool all right let's play
185. 12:33this clip and see what we look
186. 12:48like okay that's pretty awesome uh let's
187. 12:51put some ey movements into this guy now
188. 12:59all right we're going to roll back to
189. 13:01the
190. 13:03beginning as you see we've already put
191. 13:06in that head movement last time
192. 13:17[Music]