Step 1
I drew the frame using my storyboards and character concepts as a guide. I first use a very light pencil, then go over it with a very skinny tipped marker.
Step 2
I took a picture of the drawing and imported the image into my computer. Sometimes there is more than one frame on the same page, but these are split up later. This is what the frame looks like at this stage.
Step 3
To make the frame look clean and clear, I open it in Photoshop and use the threshold feature to make them completely black and white, then use the eraser to clear up any leftover black. On certain images, there is more than one drawing, so I used the marquee tool to cut out some parts and put them in different frames. This is very efficient as I got around 200 frames out of 40 pages. After all the editing is done, the frame looks like this:
Step 2
I took a picture of the drawing and imported the image into my computer. Sometimes there is more than one frame on the same page, but these are split up later. This is what the frame looks like at this stage.
Step 3
To make the frame look clean and clear, I open it in Photoshop and use the threshold feature to make them completely black and white, then use the eraser to clear up any leftover black. On certain images, there is more than one drawing, so I used the marquee tool to cut out some parts and put them in different frames. This is very efficient as I got around 200 frames out of 40 pages. After all the editing is done, the frame looks like this:
Step 4
With the frame complete, I imported it into Windows Live Movie Maker and put it in the right place. I usually do this in batches as I can get a good idea of what it looks like. I then set the time that each frame will be shown, which varied from frame to frame.
Step 5
I repeated steps 1-4 381 more times.
And that's how I created my animation. It was a long and challenging process, but I enjoyed it and would probably do it again-probably.
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