Well, I've discovered that phase one of the editing (love that word phase), being the simple cutting out of the claymation creature, creating a new background "nothing" layer, and resaving as psd takes about 2-3 minutes per frame. Withing 14 hours work non-stop (lol, ya right), I should have damn near all of them done I think (20-30 frames an hour). I was giving myself up to 10 frames an hour, but that just wont fly, now will it! the little guy will look a lot better on an NTSC tv at the proper res. Hes zoomed in about 400% or something right now. ry

Errrrrr, all verry verryy interesting. What is the little guy, anyway? Sue

I officially deem him, The Naught lil'Bugger.

naughty..

Can't photo shop do scripting or something? I don't think psp can but. Wait a sec. slink can you do this in adobe premire? Bsteph

I will be generating my own scripts for certain actions if possible, but even if I could make a script that would cut out each fram, create a duplicae layer, delete the original layer, make a new backrougn nothing layer, delete the outer selection of the cut out, and save it as a psd to a certain folder (which a script could do most of that), i wouldn't, because I would trust a script to cut out each frame properly. Id rather be the one to fuck up, not the puter. If i screw up, I could always hang myself, but beating an inanimate object like my amd, that would only make me have to get a new one. All the frames are going through photo shop first, at least twice, sometimes 3, and a few 4 times (a few is prolly like 70-80). After that, Ill be running it through stop motion pro, and maybe final cut pro in the end on my friends Mac.

Ooooooh Boooy, Looks like REDEYE time!!! Can't say I understand exactly what you're doing (animating naughty lil'Bugger in a movie called Boo! I presume, lol) sounds like timeconsuming work but! Good luck...me, I'm sticking to f*#%ing around with UltraFractal!)

nessie. photoshop could do all that with actions. Except being consistant when selecting out the background. should have done it all in amorphium.... where it looks like clay, you can animate it right in the program and render it as several different formats including flash.... oh yeah also you can render it as individual frames with masking already done....oops you didn't want to hear that. ....cut!

Hi Nplus, I have Amorphium I've heard Amorphium pro is easier to work with and ZBrush is even better. However creating thngs in Amorphium I found to be rather a pain. Still it's got great potential. I think what slink needs to do is rotoscope. But I could be wrong. Slink not do diminish your hard work. But sometimes I think you do things the hard way. I can recognize the symptoms because I do it too. However doing things the hard way realy has no advantage except you can do it manually if you have to. Think about the results. The work will probably look the same and you will have worked many times harder to get the same results which could have been done easier and faster. Of course you will feel pride of doing your job well. But you will also feel pride doing a good job while not loosing a month of your life needlessly. If it can be avoided I would advise you not to do things the hard way. You can then focus your attention to you work not mind numbing repitition. Bsteph