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Tag: mixed media animation

  • making mixed media animation (both ways)

    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 colored frames for the long mixed media animation pro

    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

    Have you tried this? What did you think? Keep creating!

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  • mixed media animation

    My teacher introduced a new project. Yay! We have to make self promo videos. Honestly, videos aren’t my strongest skill, but this is a great opportunity to learn. I wasn’t too sure what I wanted to do for my video or how to make it stand out.

    The more I thought about it, I wanted to do something fun and artsy. Something collage/craft like. So I started looking up “multi media animation tutorials”. There are so many cool ways to add to your videos! (Find a cool example here) It seems like there are two ways to go about multi media animation: using plugins/editing effects or the more lengthy process. The plug ins are not free by any means, so I think I’ll experiment with the more time consuming process. The idea is to take a video you’ve shot, bring it into software and save it frame by frame, print your frames out, and then bring out the markers and start drawing, etc. Most people seem to use Adobe software, but I’ve seen others use Canva and Capcut.

    Here are some cool videos I found!

    So after getting some inspiration, I got to work. I combed through my email, phone, and my mom’s facebook account to find clips of myself. I brought the clips into Premiere Pro and edited them. It took me a minute, but I started to get the hang of it again. I kept my editing simple. I made a lil montage. I think I’ll try mixed media animation soon!

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