Скачать или смотреть Pencil Beginners Tutorial Making a Simple Walk Cycle Animation (Four Frames)

This tutorial shows how to use the free animation package Pencil, to make a simple walk cycle (four frames).

Pencil is an animation tool designed to allow traditional animation techniques to be carried out on a computer.

It offers two techniques that are used in traditional animation, onion skinning and layers.

Onion skinning gives a semi-transparent image of the previous frame as a guide for drawing the current frame.

Layers allow background images to remain in the background so that only changes to foreground objects need to be drawn.

Pencil is a basic tool designed for the specific task of implementing traditional animation. The animator is expected to draw every frame (that changes) a task which is much easier with some form of stylus rather than a mouse.

The drawing tools are basic and limited e.g. no oval tool and very little control over vector graphics. There are no facilities for the computer to create ‘in-between’ frames (tweening) or any other method of interpolating between key frames.

The finished file from the tutorial can be downloaded from my website -

http://graphics.freemovies.co.uk