When you start mixed media animation, there are two ways to go about it. There’s a longer way, and a shorter way.
The more arduous way entails taking a video frame by frame, printing it out, adding the mixed media aspect, scanning it back in, and then lining up each frame in post. It’s very lengthy, but it’s more customizable than the shorter way.
The easier way, is to take a video, import it in Photoshop as video frames to layers, make your edits in photoshop, and export, then arrange it in post.
I did both and have some videos and thoughts below!
The long process pros and cons
Pros
- It was easier to customize the animations with crayons, markers, colored pencils, etc
- More freedom
Cons
- harder to line up scanned in images
- took a long time to line up said scanned images (very frustrating)
The short process pros and cons
Pros
- saved time
- was easier to export (create frames, line up in post, etc)
Cons
- not as much creative freedom
- dependent on Photoshop brushes/photoshop manipulation for mixed media effect
Resources
- Photoshop mixed media video
- This is a tiktok video! I tried looking for it on YouTube but no dice
- Long process mixed media video
- The vid suggests changing the frames from 24 to 8, but I believe I did 14 or 16 frames
Have you tried this? What did you think? Keep creating!