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MAGIC ME

PROCESS

To make this animation I used the Clip Studip Paint Pro program, since it has the option of creating animations, in the version that I have, of two seconds. I divided the short into 4 parts, of 24 frames each, since it goes at 12 frames per second. In the first clip a girl appears smiling, which is done in several phases. Firstly, the sketch, which becomes a black lineart, in all 24 frames, using onion skin. Next I added the base colors to each frame. Having the complete base (line and color) I went to the shadows and, when finished, to color the line. Having this, I added a dark background color to show what I did next: Lighting. I added a new frame folder to paint lilac at ??% opacity. In addition, in another folder I animated a yellowish light that is turned on and off. This light would be part of the element of the second clip, which is a magic lamp on a rock, with a light similar to the one I animated in the previous clip. The process is the same: sketch, lineart, base color, shadows, and lighting, but in this case it was only in one layer, whereas in the previous clip it was 24. The third clip is a mixture of the previous two, since that the girl's face and the lamp are made in a single layer, different from each other, since the lamp is in the foreground, and the face in the background. To create this depth effect, I lowered the opacity of the girl's face layer. I added the yellow light again to the lamp, and in a 24-layer folder I created the animated hand, following the same process. Finally, the fourth clip is made up of two parts: the static drawing of the lamp, and the "blue smoke". I created the smoke in a single layer, recording screen while drawing it. To finish, I put the 4 clips together in the Adobe Premier Pro video editor, and added digital zooms, scaling the images in the first three clips, and scaling and repositioning the room. The text is also created with Premier with the Title tool. On the right is a video that shows all the layers and parts that each clip has, and the final assembly. I did not record the process step by step as it took a total of 38 hours.

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