CHAPTER XV - ZOOMS USING SEVERAL PIECES OF ARTWORK

Abstract

This chapter discusses use of zooming in several pieces of artwork. Zooms are required in which the ratio of the widths of the largest and smallest fields is very large, far beyond the capabilities of the normal animation stand. Those parts of the artwork common to two successive pieces of different scale must be drawn and painted with great care, and there must be means of accurately registering them one with another. The smallest scale artwork should be prepared first. Then, a few frames of the smallest field that is to be shot on this artwork is shot and developed. This can then be projected using the rotoscope with the camera projecting a large field while tracing for the next piece of artwork. If there are three or four pieces of artwork in all, lines well outside the area of the small field on each piece of artwork should be relatively coarse and those inside should be fine. This means that there will be a reasonable match between any two successive pieces of artwork without the lines within the small fields becoming impossibly fine on the third or fourth pieces of artwork.