I’m not sure which gif I prefer, with or without the background, but I do love the tracing effect. The final step for this experiment was to reincorporate the original background. This works best for the zoomed out scene of rick dancing, he really seems to be moving and leaving behind a shadow as he does so. ![]() For this, I had the frames overlap for each different scene of the animation. ![]() The next step was to create the effect that we were trying to achieve – the tracing effect. I was pleased with this result – it’s very clear what the animation is without the need for too much detail. I then moved on to seeing what the gif would look like if the original background wasn’t there: Once I had traced every frame, I exported as a gif and had this as a result:Īlthough the detail painted isn’t perfect and the lines not too accurate, since each drawing is only shown very briefly it doesn’t matter too much – it’s the motion that counts. I originally started with a mouse at school, but then quickly moved on to using a drawing tablet to be more accurate. ![]() I then created a new layer above each frame, and for each frame I traced the basic outline of Rick dancing in black, with details drawn in grey. The process began by using Photoshop’s “Motion” workspace preset, and importing a segment of the music video, as a series of frames. I thought, what better video to use than Rick Astley’s “Never gonna give you up?”. For my study, I decided to try to trace the movement occurring in a music video.
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