Re: Animating handwriting
Re: Animating handwriting
- Subject: Re: Animating handwriting
- From: Ken Tozier <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 09:26:49 -0400
On Jun 24, 2011, at 8:41 AM, Gustavo Pizano wrote:
> Hello all.
>
> So it will be good idea then to create a Mac app that will record the imput from the mouse/pen in a character basis, then record each character and then pass a string to a method, divided the string in characters and draw each character from the "map" I already did before...
>
> maybe yes, maybe no?
>
> what do you think?
>
> G.
Depending on how much text you're trying to animate, it might be easier to just make the individual frames of the animation, by hand, in a graphics program and just play them back. If it's just a few words on a title page, you could use the erase as you go method I described in my last reply.
If you have Photoshop, create an image with two layers. type the text you want on one layer and fill a second layer with white. Use the eraser tool, erase a little bit of the overlay, save a frame, erase a little more save another frame, etc... It would save you a lot of work on writing an app just to record the handwriting strokes and another to play them back...
If you're writing a whole page of text, creating all the frames by hand would get real old real quick.
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