This morning I forgot to do a write up since I wanted to get right into animation on COVID Dystopia. I am slowly learning the intricacies of animating fire. I am probably making some mistakes but the animation flows so fast that I am hoping no one notices.
I based this animation of the flaming baby on a scene of a curtain burning in a living room. I have been using various methods to plan the animations and this is the first time I just worked straight ahead. In general the flickering action moves upwards but I think I can do better.
The next scene is a close up on the babies face. Hopefully I can get the flames to rise upwards as if in a forest fire. I am also trying to get the flames to appear as I painted then in the illustrations. That means adding lots of extra textural strokes. I am importing each frame into procreate to continue the painting process. I love the brushes in that program so it is worth the extra effort.
I am finding that deep blue screens are best for transferring the flame animations. I might actually go back to the first flame animation I did since it got greyed out and washed out with a green screen. Trail and error is the best way I have to figure out what works when animating flames. I have many more flame animation scenes to continue the experiments.
I am teaching eight hours of virtual classes tomorrow so I might not get a scene done tomorrow. Maybe I can update the first fire animation scene before classes start. If I had an animation student tomorrow they would be learning how to animate fire since that is the ongoing creative challenge I am facing.