1948 scene converted to Flash
Posted by dermot on March 4, 2009 at 1:39 pm
Here’s a scene from the 1940s animated propaganda cartoon “Going Places”.
I wanted to use this footage in my movie (a 30 minute animated documentary about oil, & growth), but as my film is in Flash, the lineweight and style just didn’t match. The best resolution I could find of the original was also too poor. The solution was to reanimated the scene in Flash, using the extreme poses as reference for Flash puppets. Re-animating the scene in Flash, using mostly shape tweening, too a full week. Here’s the Flash version.
The advantage of this process is that I have the scene in vector format, allowing me to reposition the characters and render the final shot at any resolution. It’s not an easy process, but keeping the film in one unified style forced the decision.
The palette in the second shot is too desaturated; I’ll be making it a bit bolder, as well as performing a “beauty pass” in After Effects to give the final shot more of a texture - a faux film grain - or something to make it look less “Flashy”…as the Flash renders tend to be a bit lifeless and flat.
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