Photoshop Character Loop

I scanned in every frame that I drew into a booklet into photoshop and I could then edit them in photoshop and start making my character loop. For every frame I had to adjust each scan and clean them up in photoshop so they would be clear to see in my animation. Firstly I adjusted the threshold this made each line bolder and clearer. I then went into filter, blur ,gaussiam blur and making sure this was set at 1.0 radius this made the outline thicker and you could see each black line clearer. However before it becomes clear the image is blurry so I then had to adjust the curves and this set the image back to make it stand out. Using the paint brush I cleared up any unwanted black blodges or adding more black where parts of the image had been lost from the blur. Once I had done this I made the background a layer so I could magic wond the background and get rid of it. I then did this for all the frames and started to move each character loop in the place they would be played out in the animation. Although when doing this I found a problem because I had drawn my character using a border and it goes off the page, when I later make this an animation with a background of a wall it wouldn't make sense. When I go to take photos for my background I will have to make sure I get a top of the roof and wall so my ballon character can go off the top of this.


This is my final video for my character loop animation without a background. Looking back at this I think it turned out good in the end however if I did do this again when drawing out all the frames I make sure that the character is the same side through out. Although this wasn't a large problem I manage to sort this out in photoshop through the animation process. Once I had layered out all of my frames on photoshop I noticed it doesn't follow through clearly were the ballon goes of the page and comes back on through the bottom. Next time I do this task I will make sure the animation follows through neatly. Something I think works well is the whole idea of the animation were the bat comes through and the small amount of colour makes it stand out more.