New day, new rotoscoping practice: 5 second clip of a rotating 성화.
Better lighting and easier to predict movement in this one, but i…need to stop picking clips where they’re wearing all black, too much of the detail gets lost by the time i pull it into Procreate dreams and its hard to real where stuff ends and begins. i tried doing an initial color breakdown on this one (first brief frame) and then striking out from there. So far, shape breakdown is working, though i did find it helpful to do some in even smaller pieces—so the torso is all green, but at one point i was going through and just doing specifically that rectangle waistband shape, then just just the right jacket side as it turns, so i could keep my brain locked into what specific changes were happening to that part as it rotated. Mentally, its kind of like the difference between fully assembling something, then moving on to the next, and assembling one specific part on multiple objects and then going back through and assembling a different specific part on all of them. i think the hope and dream is someday getting to a place where i can assemble more at once because i can better hold in my head like..how multiple pieces are moving in tandem, but definitely not there yet.
Started the head first, but left it unfinished because the fine details and relatively smaller movements of the face are harder to keep consistant—may go back and try it once i get the larger motions down. torso mostly done, going to do arms/legs/shoes next. if im not tired of looking at this when i finish the lines, i might try doing w 2-tone fill for the clothes and skin—might lose some of the motion reading, but i’m also wondering if filling it will make it look smoother because only the external lines will be jumping around instead of all my extra sketch lines of varying width and opacity? idk. Another thing i’d like to try with this one: in the gif, there’s a slight bump near the end (because he’s being help up by like, people). i’m trying to erase that so it it feels like a smooth rotate.
Havent decided what i want to do with the the spot on the left where a hand is supprting, and on the right where the arm goes behind a head. i know i dont want to draw more, so im trying to decide how to make it contained—i could either try and fill in the gaps and draw the obscured section of coat/arm, or i could reimagine/draw some other the of supports there that just move less (like just…a sphere or smth, idk). First one would be easier and have a cleaner look, as long as i can figure out how to rotate arm.
Also! turned onion skinning on for this one. while it created a little bit of difficulty seeing the thing i was trying to trace, its been largely super helpful on this one—it helps me see if my interpretation of a line is changing drastically between frames because im misreading something in a dark area, and just for general smoothness/continuity. sometimes i’ll think something’s a little off the line but its not a huge deal until i play it and the lines jumping all over the place; the onion skinning helps me see when i’m too far off so i can pull it back closer to that previous line and make the difference more slight. my brain do get bored of drawing very similar things ovef and over, so like, unintentionally, i do often find myself taking liberties with some lines—which would be fine in an illustration, but in the scope of this, wrecks continuity when i’m doing it frequently and with no linear rhyme or reason.
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