Animation tool

Animation table: also known as "transparent table" and "copy table". It is different from the general writing desk in that it uses frosted glass as the desktop, and lamps are installed below it, so that the desktop can transmit light, and multiple superimposed drawings can be clearly seen for drawing and copying animated line drawings. The desktop always tends to avoid direct light to the eyes, which is convenient for work.

Copying desk: also known as "writing desk", it is a tool for copying manuscripts. There is a platform composed of fluorescent lamp, white acrylic board, glass and box.

Positioning ruler: a tool used by animators to fix animation paper when drawing design drafts and original animation drawings. In traditional animation photography, the positioning ruler is also used to ensure the accurate positioning of the background draft and celluloid. The positioning ruler can fix dozens of drawings with standard holes at a time, and can also be used to browse drawings.

Animation paper: According to different uses, animation paper can be generally divided into three types: original drawing, modified paper and intermediate drawing. General animation paper can choose 70~ 100g/m2 white paper. When making movie and television animation, the paper size is mainly divided into two types, and its size is 24cm*27cm(9F) or 27cm*33cm( 12F), which is set according to the different needs of picture framing and screen size. Animation paper should have good transparency, paper should be uniform, white and smooth, and paper edges should be hard, thin and tough. The original drawings do not require high paper quality. Most of the setting paper is light yellow tissue paper.

Punching machine: the function of punching machine corresponds to the positioning ruler. The main function is to punch holes with the same size and the same distance as the three fixing columns of the positioning ruler for the papers that need to be fixed on the positioning ruler, such as original drawings, modified papers and animation papers, so that these papers can be accurately sleeved on the positioning ruler.

Animation pen: Animation pen generally refers to all kinds of pens used in the pre-production and post-production of cartoons. Mainly pencils, mechanical pencil, colored lead, signature pens, Gou Xianbi, brushes, watercolor pens, etc.

Celluloid sheet: also known as "transparent sheet", it is a transparent film made of polyester material, with smooth surface and full transparency like tissue paper. This material can not only make different action figure paintings be shot on different films in multiple layers, but also overlap with the background, and the pictures do not affect each other, which can enhance the layering and three-dimensional sense of the picture.

Photography platform: a platform for shooting animation, which can be set with multiple shooting layers and columns for placing cameras.

Frame-by-frame camera: It is a frame-by-frame camera that can shoot animated drawings one by one. It is vertically placed on the column of the photography platform specially used for shooting cartoons, and can move up and down through the crank as needed.

Photographic table: Photographic table is a table used to record the time, speed, dialogue and background photography requirements of animated characters, and it is the main basis for drawing and shooting each animated shot. The form is marked with the title of the film, the number of shots, specifications, seconds, content, mouth shape, photography requirements and other items. It is a bridge between director, original painting, animation, line drawing, coloring, proofreading and shooting.

Making software

MAYA:Autodesk Maya is the world's top three-dimensional animation software produced by Autodesk Company in the United States, and its application objects are professional film and television advertisements, character animation, movie stunts and so on. Maya has perfect functions, flexible work, easy to learn and use, high production efficiency and strong realistic rendering. It is a high-end production software of movie level.

3D Studio Max: referred to as 3ds Max or Max for short, it was developed by Discreet company (later merged by Autodesk company) and has the same properties as MAYA software. From the perspective of application, it is widely used in advertising, film and television, industrial design, architectural design, three-dimensional animation, multimedia production, games, auxiliary teaching, engineering visualization and other fields.

Flash: It is a webpage animation design software launched by American MACROMEDIA Company in June 1999. It is an interactive animation design tool, which can integrate music, sound effects, animation and innovative interfaces to produce high-quality dynamic effects of web pages. Various scripting languages can meet the diversity of web design.

Photoshop:Adobe Photoshop, referred to as "PS", is an image processing software developed and distributed by Adobe Systems. Photoshop mainly deals with digital images composed of pixels. With its numerous editing and drawing tools, you can edit pictures more effectively. Ps is powerful, involving all fields of image production.