2D in 3D - Hand drawn animation methods in Maya.

[@Roxxie]

I was wondering how you were able to do this! Thanks for showing us your process, I look forward to seeing your other videos on this :)

[@clintplyler8885]

Awesome, thank you. So simple yet really cool effect. That is much nicer than trying to manipulate line thickness of borders on a character. Love it!

[@bilosofie]

Yo James this is Genius man...

[@kevinsu1211]

Nice. Please show us more of your animation technique. Thanks

[@TdkSivakumar]

You r very innovative,. and invented a new pipeline

[@zamrimustapha1569]

wow..this is so powerful

[@kurtholus]

This technique is fucking amazing

[@jjcosmio2225]

Fonderfull..more please

[@princessepingouin]

That might sound like a stupid question but why would you do that over just drawing a 2d character into a software like animate cc or toonboom?

[@jcrossley17]

Maya is my software of choice. I started doing this in Toonboom but found that I have more rigging options and animation tools in Maya. It's just a personal preference.

[@Zsirzsolt]

super! Could you tell me how would you render this animation? thx :)

[@jcrossley17]

Arnold works really well with these types of rigs, and you can use surface shaders for a flat color if you'd like.

[@btsarmy-xs6cx]

Ah, i really want to make flat puppet theater kind of animation. So this is really helpful, thanks. Is it possible to convert 2d drawing into maya?

[@jcrossley17]

I don't see a way to generate geometry from a drawing (like how you can use Illustrator to create vectors from raster images), I'll look into it but I don't think the results would be very useful anyway. I bring in drawings as a texture map or imageplane, and then build the geometry over them by hand. If you want to use your pencil drawings for the final look of the character than you can apply them as a texture map onto flat geometry and rig that.

[@zeraothunderstruck3446]

I was wondering, how do you make the mouth?

[@jcrossley17]

Here's a video on how I rigged a similar mouth for a flat character. Let me know if this does not answer your question. kzbin.info/www/bejne/jpvPnqBja6p4Z6M

[@zeraothunderstruck3446]

@@jcrossley17 It does, which lead me to another question, would it be possible to add those 2D eyes and mouth on a 3D model? If so, I'd love to know how that works.

[@namanbisht975]

How are you making this make full tutorial please

[@jcrossley17]

I'm on it, I'll have videos out really soon. Thanks

[@remsthete2923]

@@jcrossley17 omg we need that full tutorial! hahahaha soooo excited!

[@YanyanLun]

ong my god