That was strange, I went to add a new post a while ago and there was an advert preventing me from reading what I was writing. I'd like to know who allowed some one to place an add on my blog composition page. Especially when it prevents me from adding a post. Anyway I managed to deactivate it but it has made me a bit suspicious as to how it happened.
Back to the matter in hand. I started animating yesterday. I have most of the drawings done and was keen to get started as I know this will take a lot of time. After finishing the drawings, in pencil, I then inked over the lines so they could be scanned. I only just found out that there was a scanner in Clare street. I used my own printer scanner up till now but the quality isn't great. I had noticed that I was spending a lot of time filling gaps in the scanned artwork, prior to filling areas with the paintbucket tool. A way to cut down on this and get much cleaner lines is to trace the image in Illustrator. It gives a comic book style to the images. Thanks Dave for the tip. It became obvious how much better the images traced in Illustrator were when I started to animate. As you can see in the videos the quality of the fist bike is much poorer than the second bike, which was traced in Illustrator.

 

 

 

 

The video above has the first bike after being traced. There is an improvement, but as the bikes all have to pass close to the camera, the quality has to be as good as possible. I think I'll now trace all my scanned images first which will add to the time needed. But then I should save a lot of the time I would have spent touching up the gaps, and it will improve the overall quality.

So the next thing I have to do is an animatic. The audio would have to be done anyway so it'll get that sorted, and help me to see any areas that might be adjusted or improved. I will be posting that as soon as it's done.