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Would You Like To Make Animat-ed Movies With Your Camera? Here's A Simple Animation Project To Test Your Skill
By WILLIS
THIS IS for the movie amateur who has a yen to try his luck at producing short animated sequences that will add interest and originality to his movies. Animation, as produced commercially, requires a great deal of skill and expensive equipment. However, the pmhitious amateur can achieve creditable results without much more than his camera (which should have a single frame release) , a supply of drawing paper of the type usually supplied for loose leaf binders, with holes punched along one edge, and a tracing board which can be constructed by the amateur himself.
This last item is of utmost importance. It consists of a frame encasing a panel of glass and equipped with pegs at the top corresponding to the holes in the drawing paper. The pegs serve to hold each sheet of the drawing paper in accurate alignment with rhe others so that each drawing will be in exact register with relation to the others. The board is elevated at one end, as may be seen in Fig. 4, with ? lamp of small wattage beneath to furnish the necessary illumination.
We will now take up the technique of drawing a sequence of pictures that will give the illusion of motion when
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projected in fast succession. The reader should begin with very simple forms of motion at first and not try an)'thing more advanced until he has mastered the simple form. To begin, one may use a life-like airplane as the character.
First take a sheet of the drawing paper and place it on the tracing board, placing the holes over the pegs. Now
draw a rectangle the shape of a movie film frame around the area your picture will enclose. Suppose you are going to make a scene of the airplane making loops and hairpin turns, as suggested in the accompanying illustrations. Take your pencil and draw a line cu''ving up and down and around over the path of the plane's proposed flight. For an airplane drawn with a length of one and one quarter inches, a good speed for the plane would be one and one half inches along the line of flight for every four frames. Using a celluloid rule that can be bent around curves, mark off every one and one half inches along the line of flight. Draw pictures of the ai-iphne with its nose at each of these marks and as it would look in those
• Fig. 2 — Here is shown a very rudimentary set up for filming the drawings. The drawing board is used here as the holder for the drawings while being photographed. The camera, attached to a short board, is clamped to the table to insure rigidity and also that it will remain in accurate alignment with the drawing board.