Here is a method if you are not the best artist. We can all trace.
Get some friends together, dress them up and do some good old fashioned rotoscoping.
Dress friends up as your characters and use some good old fashioned cinematography and walla you can have a really cool anime.
It worked for Flowers of Evil
Just imagine the stories you could tell including some really cool slice of life anime.
I was looking for videos about how to make anime and came across this.
Here is the making of video
Now I know what you are thinking. What can I learn from this? Actually you can learn 3 important things.
1. You want to make money out of your anime you have to reach an audience. Or if you simply want as many people to enjoy it you must find an audience. Notice how may hits this guy has. It is in Spanish. There are tons of fans in the world who love, love, love anime. Why not create something specific for some group especially if you are part of said group. Like this guy.
2. Get out and film live action shots and learn how to piece things together without having first sit down and animate. It will greatly increase your skills and who says your story has to be animated?
3. If you want it animated then try this…..film it in real life, then animate on top of it.
I eat up everything I can to learn from the masters. Just watching how they work can give you so many clues into how things work and how you can put it into action.
Here is one or a few of my favorite Behind the scenes looks at the making of anime.
I have bee keeping up with this really awesome Youtube channel called Art Sandwich. They have been making some really cool spoofs of different movies. I wanted to share their making of video because it breaks down the process pretty good and possibly could give you an idea on how to make your anime. You could possibly use your own footage and actors and draw over them like these guys do.
Always think outside the box.
Here is some of their awesome work.
So when working on my upcoming secret projects I have been looking for several different pipelines that would lend to the speed and quality of my animation. I have worked on 2 different pipelines for both my manga and my Cinematic comics.
I am using UE4. If you have seen some of the quality coming out of it and others it seems pretty fit to tell a good story with good visuals and add to the SPEED of creating good looking art.
Paragon was a recent game featured on Unreal Engines Youtube page and they shared their animation techniques.
So here is a pipeline you can possibly use.
Daz for characters > Iclone for animation and scene setup>Export to Ue4 for realtime render.
Or you can have someone model your characters and have it rigged for DAZ and Iclone to export into Ue4, Unity or Cry Engine.
Right now Ue4 is best for me due to the upgrade in their cinematic program, Sequencer.
If you are going to make your own anime, you have to be able to animate. One of the tools of choice is non-other than Flash, now called Adobe Animate or something of that nature. I wanted to post this step by step guide for some of your newer guys just trying to collect information on how to animate.
Flash is where I started and I still have it on my hard drive today. It is easy to use and was just what I originally started using as well as many Animators out there.
Adobe Animate is now available for around $20 bucks a month. But if you cannot afford it there are tons of cool, free animation tools.
Here is the same creator above using FREE Tools.
The tutorials above are by Jesse Jones. I ran into his work when several artists were animating an entire episode of Dragoball. It was a fun project.
Follow the link below to check it out.
I know there are a ton of people out there who love anime and have so many stories in their minds ready to be told. I’m sure the dream is to go to Japan, find a company they can submit to and have their stuff made into anime.
They wish they could make their own but lack the actual talent to do so. Plus no money. This concept is also the same if you are trying to make a comic or manga. It is still a challenge for the person who can’t draw. So what can you do?
Collab? Nope folks won’t really collab with you. I know. I tried. So what can you do?
Well you may have to spend some money but maybe not as much as you think.
Brian Haberlin showed a really cool way to make comics. I posted here earlier about it using Poser.
This is a great way to make a comic/manga without knowing necessarily how to draw.
But what if you don’t want to use the standard Poser characters? Hire someone to model and rig the characters for you. Now I know it costs money for this but the cool thing is this. You can find modelers out there who will work with you. Start simple and work your way up.
Sketchfab is a great place to find some modelers.
I’m doing a search right now for my newest characters and my current comic.
This reminded me of those Japanese, novels/games. Someone let me know the name. I have been enjoying this. I think he also uses a psuedo 3d method to create this animated series.
If you want to tell your story here is another way to do it.
I love 2d work very much. I love it even more when both 3d is used to bring an extra upgrade in quality. The other day I was checking out Mike Inel’s work. I found this little video where Mike uses a type of mocap, rotoscoping and then tracing over the 3d work. I’ll let you check out the process here below.
I noticed Otaking using a similiar process. I think this helps take his 2d to the next level.
This should help you in your endeavors especially if you are not the best artist. You could easily use Poser characters and trace over them in a 2d package. Daz is free and you could do the same thing. Go for it. Make your own anime today.
I always loved this little tutorial. It is from the creator of GANTZ GANTZ has been made into a manga, movie and anime.
The author uses 3d models, traces over them and adds detail and walla he has a manga.
Here is some more of his current work. That might be an idea to make your own manga or anime.
In the next few posts I will be showing you more of the stuff I will be working on and I will be using this method more readily but using Poser similiar to Brian Haberlin
Here is his method. I hope you can glean some off this method.
