Scanning a Drawing for Flash Animation: File Types

Video Transcript

"Hi, this is Cable for Expert Village. In this clip we're going to go over some of our scanning principles to go ahead and capture all of our drawn frames. Now if you were working on an entire animated sequence or an entire animation, the scanning process would take quite a long time. Hours, even days or weeks depending on how many hundreds or thousands of frames that you have drawn. In this case we're working with just a run cycle of a buffalo. So, in this example we only have less than 10 drawn frames, so it really doesn't take that long. But for those of you working on larger projects, just be patient and maybe you can have a few friends to help out. Okay, so, when you're working with your scanner, go ahead and choose an appropriate setting and depending on whatever machine and software you're working with, there should be some place to designate what kind of image it is. I think to get a more simple, cleaner line to ink with, that a black and white document or even a grayscale document works better than a color document. That way your ink and paint program can find the lines a little bit better. So go ahead and set that up, and we'll scan our images at 200 DPI, and start scanning."