Shadow..

..pass.

Had this little snarling demon hanging around the hard drive, so I thought I’d pop open TVPaint and give him some color, and a shadow/lighting pass. Agh! I had forgotten how much time it takes to do. Almost as much time as to re-animate the entire sequence again… I like the effect.  But sometimes:

In animation, doing a “shadow pass” means doing a set of shadows on a character or sequence, after the animation is completed. Careful attention paid to light sources, where shadows fall etc.
You’ll see this technique of making the creep-tastic children’s cereal commercials, (Honey Nut Cheerios.. Capn’ Crunch.. etc) and while it often adds depth to a cartoon it isn’t always a necessary thing. “Flatten my Capn’!” me says!

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I remember being thoroughly horrified when I saw my first Bugs Bunny cartoon in the early 90′s that had this complicated 3D shadow pass effect. It really came into play after Roger Rabbit appeared in theatres, but was used pretty extensively before that.

C

Yargh!

Quick experiment done in TVPaint! Geez, if I only had access to fast computers and TVPaint back in the early 90′s, things would have been SOOOOOoooo much easier, when I did these little films for Sesame Street. http://www.cartoonmonkey.com/newintro.html (click the green arrow on the “monkeymenu”, then the name of a film to play)

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I’d almost like to re-do these films.. but noes! Onward!

C

 
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