Difference between revisions of "Rough Animator"

Revision as of 12:58, 3 November 2023

Rough Animator is a non-destructive animation software, which is available on all 4 iPad Pros in the Multimedia Lab.
To open a new project, click "new project" and fill in a title. You can choose resolution and frame rate in this dialogue box but you can also change it later.
Choose your background color by going to Project Options on the top left screen and Change background color
Choose brush color, opacity, and size by clicking on Tool options, start drawing your first frame!
You can advance to the next frame or go back a frame by clicking the forward/back arrow

Onion skin allows the animator to see a transparent copy of the last frame and a live copy of the current frame. This makes it easy to track motion and keep objects in registration. Do enable this feature, click Onion skin on the bottom left corner of the screen. There are opacity dials that let you choose how many frames you can see. Experiment with them!

Open AfterEffects and go to File->Scripts->RoughAnimator to AfterEffects script
locate your .RA file and import the data.txt file
There are several layers you can mess with but you'll most likely be using the composition file that is named after your .RA file
Drag this into the timeline and get workin!

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 ==== Transferring .RA files through iTunes ====
 # Plug the iPad charging cable into the USB port
-# Open iTunes and navigate to the small tablet icon on the top left menu bar
+# On the iPad if the '''Trust this Computer''' dialog opens click '''Trust'''.
-# Locate File Sharing -> Rough Animator
+# Open a new '''Finder''' window.
-# Find your Rough Animator file and drag it onto the desktop.
+# Click the iPad in the left sidebar
+# Click '''Trust'''
+# Select '''Files'''
+# Find RoughAnimator and click the arrow.
+# Select the file you want to transfer and drag it to the Desktop
 ==== Importing .RA files into AfterEffects ====