#multiplane

[aurorepeuffier]

I made some sand animation

[postcard-from-the-past]

French single-propeller multiplane of Marquis d'Equevilley on a vintage postcard

[spraxinoscope]

There's this neat visual effect in Saint Seiya, and I can't figure out how they made it.

I've been interested in lighting effects in cel animation for a while. the stuff they could do with only analogue tools was really cool, and i've never been able to find good writing about it in english. this is an art from that is not practiced any more, and not a lot of writing about it has made it to the internet, so some of the advanced stuff might be lost technology.

this is from 1988. same year as akira, which has a lot of fancy lighting stuff, but well before the pinnacle of technical multiplane tricks in the mid-90s. and it's just a regular-budget tv show. how'd they do that??

I guess it's just multiple layers of film of light caustics from water, like that's where it comes from, sure. but you don't usually see video elements in moving backgrounds. so maybe they used some kind of video mixer masking trick to get it into the shot? but there's bloom on the characters, and you can't add bloom using an 80s video mixer, right? so they must have had some way of printing the video frames onto cels in order to put it in the multiplane? but that sounds so labor intensive. whatever it is, once they figured out this technique they started using it for everything. every character just has this aura all the time now. so it has to be pretty simple. i'm missing something.

famously in Star Trek TNG they also used video elements of swirling water mixed together to make the transporter visual effects, and that was around the same time. But they had way more money, and frankly this is more impressive! the transporter effects were just blurred masks; this is some other shit.

tagging this in the hopes that there's some cel-era animation sicko on tumblr who will see this and know what it is

[fin-doestoonz]

My goober characters

Mazin poi and fin

[manasseh]

[crazybeavermonster]

WIP - Hlaalu Marketplace

I haven’t posted in a looong while and that’s because I’m getting used to working as a highschool animation teacher and I kinda can’t get myself to do anything else (but I should!!!). So to let you know I’m alive I decided to share with you some WIP.

I want my students to try out multiplane so I’m working on a layered picture they can use in After Effects. This is just a small portion of the whole picture but when I finish it I’ll post the whole thing (and probably delete this post - if I won’t forget).

And since I’m obsessing about Elder Scrolls Dunmeri Lore again, I decided to make a Hlaalu Marketplace.

[adamtheanimator]

Buzzing Bee Garden

Bee Garden

Here’s a fun bit of watercolour sketchbook doodling that became the plan for a 2D animated multi-plane scene. I created an enhanced version for my new course one animating in Toon Boom Harmony, covering 3D space, 2D animation loops, cameras and special effects. I love English summertime and watching a bee hum through the rich garden scene is one of my favourite kind of moments 🙂 So I thought I’d…

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