Smooth Jaggies in Animation?
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Hello all. Newbie here, so maybe this has been well-covered (though I made a good-faith effort and couldn't find it.)
I am making a traditional 2D-animation cartoon using Toon Boom Digital Pro. I am hoping to be able to build sets in SketchUp and export fly-thrus of them, which I will then composite my animated characters into. The hoped-for effect is a richer 3D world for my 2D characters -- the ballroom dancing scene in "Beauty and the Beast" is a good example of what I mean.
I have found plug-ins that smooth animation paths, but not the drawings; any line that is not perfectly horizontal or vertical is rendered with jaggies. I have found plug-ins that allow for photorealistic renderings. What I am after, though, is the black-lined, no-shadow cartoon look of regular SketchUp, just without the jaggies. It seems like this would be one of the first problems tackled and I bet it was, but I can't find the answer.
Can anyone direct me to a plugin or ruby script that can help me?
Thank you.
Richard
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One way to approach it is to change the export filetype to .png and then set the export size as 2 to 3 times what you want. So if you are going for 800 x 600, then export at maybe around 1600 x 1200. This will export each frame as a .png. Then you open those in photoshop and resize them all down to the size you desire in photoshop. Learn how to set up and action that resizes them, then set up a batch in photoshop that runs the resize action on all your photos. This nicely automates the resizing process over the hundreds or thousands of images. Then you need a program like premoere or moviemaker or something to then take all the images and compile them into a single movie file. That is how I like to get good resolution results. There are tutorials around that go into depth. Paul Russam has a great one using Adobe Premiere. Maybe search for that if you will be using Premiere. Hope that helps, feel free to ask for more specific help on any portion of the process.
Chris
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