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I am passionate about animation, and a layperson. A tradition of hand-illustrated animations is practices by a select few. These projects tend to be impressive. They are also inaccessible to many to make: they tend to require a lot of labour, a lot of skill and, hence, a lot of funds. I don't have funds, and my skills are questionable. But I do have labour to dedicate, and a passion for plotting. | I am passionate about animation, and a layperson. A tradition of hand-illustrated animations is practices by a select few. These projects tend to be impressive. They are also inaccessible to many to make: they tend to require a lot of labour, a lot of skill and, hence, a lot of funds. I don't have funds, and my skills are questionable. But I do have labour to dedicate, and a passion for plotting. | ||
==Test Animation Workflow== | |||
2025-03-29, I prepared and pen plotted 16 frames for a test animation. These were scanned and digitally sequenced on 2025-03-31. Here's how that was done. | |||
===[https://plotter.vision/ plotter.vision]=== | |||
[https://plotter.vision/ plotter.vision] is a project by [https://trmm.net/About/ Trammell Hudson] for 'hidden wire removal from 3D STL files to SVG files that are quitable for plotting' (according to [https://github.com/osresearch/plotter-vision the Git repo]). It allows a user to load an STL file, move it, and download a 2D projection in SVG format. Crucially, it includes a 'red/blue mode' to be used for [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaglyph_3D Anaglyphic 3D]. | |||
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test animation | For the test animation, I counted the number of rotational increments the default model required for a full revolution (64). Deciding I would do 16 frames, I then made an SVG download every 4 increments. | ||
===Inkscape=== | |||
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===Plotting=== | |||
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===Scanning and cutting=== | |||
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===Making a GIF=== | |||
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==What's next?== | |||
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Revision as of 22:19, 31 March 2025
The first ever fully pen plotted 3D movie. Pen plotters are making the virtual a reality.
(306 days ago, on 2024-05-29, I wrote a ptmomnbm about this idea)
Why pen plot a movie?
There's a friction in the way current (computer) animated movies are produced. Just like in any major tech field, there's a continuous push for seamlessness that mimics real life as closely as possible. This results in obfuscation of labor, of technology and our relation to and with it.
Pen plotters expose this friction: they are machines, and so we expect them to possess the machine's perfect seamlessness. Yet they do not. They are canonically machinal, yet they are flawed. Their works are made with a careful and hand-made quality, while being explicitly produced by a machine.
I am passionate about animation, and a layperson. A tradition of hand-illustrated animations is practices by a select few. These projects tend to be impressive. They are also inaccessible to many to make: they tend to require a lot of labour, a lot of skill and, hence, a lot of funds. I don't have funds, and my skills are questionable. But I do have labour to dedicate, and a passion for plotting.
Test Animation Workflow
2025-03-29, I prepared and pen plotted 16 frames for a test animation. These were scanned and digitally sequenced on 2025-03-31. Here's how that was done.
plotter.vision
plotter.vision is a project by Trammell Hudson for 'hidden wire removal from 3D STL files to SVG files that are quitable for plotting' (according to the Git repo). It allows a user to load an STL file, move it, and download a 2D projection in SVG format. Crucially, it includes a 'red/blue mode' to be used for Anaglyphic 3D.
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For the test animation, I counted the number of rotational increments the default model required for a full revolution (64). Deciding I would do 16 frames, I then made an SVG download every 4 increments.
Inkscape
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Plotting
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Scanning and cutting
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Making a GIF
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