Animating a Landscape - Frame By Frame

[@RwanLink]

Just wanted to say that each of your videos is a pleasure to watch. Keep up the amazing work!

[@OlofStorm]

Thanks a lot! Makes me happy!

[@shibashisdas4587]

Great video sir ☺️.

[@RayfieldA]

What I think you do is show us how doing the hard work that many would shy away from, truly pays off as your work turns out beautifully! That's a great example to set!

[@OlofStorm]

Thanks a lot!

[@SadTown99]

I couldn’t have said it better myself…. This level of creative focus & effort is so inspiring. Very thankful having such a good teacher 🙏

[@alxandercontreras]

These camera motions are complex. I learned parallax scrolling creates moving backgrounds, but it does not account for rotating camera movements. Drawing the background frame by frame like you seems tedious, but this tutorial was the kick in the ass I needed to step my game up. Thanks for being a constant inspiration.

[@OlofStorm]

Cheers Alexander! Happy it motivates! :D

[@Robinssoncravents]

this guy is amazing!

[@sinantuncer3724]

Thank you from Turkey for your peaceful and positive content besides being technical. st

[@sparrowdjack6360]

So underrated

[@gregkrazanski]

this ended up looking REALLY good, wow

[@crissnguyen5546]

very good, thank you

[@flatdude4667]

Brilliant... much respect!

[@donsdoodleart]

😍

[@b___manzi]

Thank you thank you thank you... This is worth the time to do :-)

[@ArnavChan]

That's so cool 😍

[@ntstudios2829]

Amazing Work!

[@onkarborde3039]

I would definitely enroll if you create some animation course mannn !

[@raveliev]

The fact that the parallax is mathematically completely wrong makes it look pretty cool. It adds something, I can feel there is something more to this render than just a 3d camera movement. Personally I think that is what I like most with 2d animation, how clunky it can be. This looks richer than 3d also because each frame is worked screenspace, so there won't be any complex geometry being squished, the simplification occurs naturally because of the process.

[@OlofStorm]

Thanks! I wouldn't say its completely wrong, but rather just pushed slightly to an extreme. By not pushing in on the far bg but rather move it a bit sideways makes it feel as if we slightly orbits the rock. It also makes the bg look larger and further away.

[@ellishawk3242]

:0 woooooow! I love this thank you so much for this process video!

[@IONsKrypton]

Mannn!! I run out of words to praise you! Your painting, your animations, your 3D models and on top of everything is your patience! How can you be so patient to work on such big projects all alone? I am watching the journey from very begging, this has taken months! I am absolutely amazed by YOU! God of patience is called Olof Storm. You always motivate me to stay calm, be patient and animate(though I suck at animation). You are the most underrated animator on our community. You are great man you are great, 'God of patience'!

[@OlofStorm]

Oh thank you! Just have to stay excited for the subject, and shape it so you enjoy the process :). Thanks for the lovley comment!

[@ThomasGiles]

A while back I wanted to draw a comic panel of a view looking up, with clouds circling around the focal point. I created a simple setup in sketchup, took a screenshot, and used it as a rough guide for the shape of the clouds. Worked pretty well! I was thinking, for this 3D animation stuff, you could add a checkerboard texture to your ground pieces, before capturing. That would help you track the ground as it moves for whatever you want to add to it.

[@HisameArtwork]

awesome! thanks

[@creativewarsbysarfaraz1577]

you got talent as well as skills big fan

[@jeanclaudedelaronde]

Great stuff Olof! Love the technique. Thanks for sharing.

[@moderndayjames]

Ah so great! Awesome workflow and the shot looks so good!

[@OlofStorm]

Thanks James! :D

[@rubenroxo3827]

it'll be so rewarding when the whole film is complete. Cuz we've been following this with you. Thank you for sharing!!

[@REIQ]

Dope work!

[@OlofStorm]

Thanks a lot! ☺️

[@123dtv]

well done :) perfect approach

[@donsdoodleart]

😍😍

[@santibogado7196]

So inspiring!

[@jchralos]

This turned amazing! A lot better than if it was just projected as a texture on a plane.

[@AnimationGuy07]

Your comment bro It is showing 18 hours ago🤔🤔

[@OlofStorm]

Cheers Carlos! Yeah I think this style worked well for this shot!

[@OlofStorm]

@@AnimationGuy07 Carlos is subscribed to Pateron, so he saw it earlier :)

[@AnimationGuy07]

@@OlofStorm ohh! I didn't know that.

[@jchralos]

@@AnimationGuy07 we got a private showing through Patreon 🍿😎

[@srijanmishra4713]

just loved it...

[@c4cinema853]

Big fan of your works 😍❤⚡

[@t.b.g.animation6185]

Love Ur vidéos bro....i started animating in like 5 years..and the thing that helps me à lot is that i drew for 24 years.

[@OlofStorm]

Cheers! Yeah drawing skills help tons in animation!

[@t.b.g.animation6185]

@@OlofStorm yeah...,👍.when you have expérience in drawing ,animating becomes much easier....would you plz have a look at my work.

[@QwecySlim]

This is amazing

[@kshamanidhibhardwaj8151]

Obsessed with your process !!

[@donsdoodleart]

Me too

[@fredericmanson441]

EXCELSIOR!! I know how to use a 3D software, I want to go to 2D animation, and the use of the 3D software as a simple tool to produce frames is... so simple that I don't know why I have not thought about... Thank you to have "cleared" the path I want to go!! ^^

[@keeganwebb7777]

You are a master, Olof. 🙏 Thank you for helping us understand your process.

[@rickardbengtsson]

Super!

[@OlofStorm]

Tackar :)

[@cosmosmythos]

Awesome work Mr.Olof!

[@donsdoodleart]

❤️

[@boog3y]

good to see...

[@jerartist127]

that is such an amazing output i love roto animation its definately among my favorites your final output is lavish and lush it is very beautiful

[@donsdoodleart]

Yea❤️

[@CosimoPlasmati]

Such a neat solution! Thank you!

[@anxiousoptimism5517]

This is cool.

[@itzKal]

Looks great so far. It reminds me of Summit of the Gods although this has an identity of its own. The scenery and camera movements are well thought out and look beautiful.

[@OlofStorm]

Thanks a lot! Loved that film! Stoked to see climbing in animation!

[@CostlyMass]

that worked out very well, good talent!

[@U.O.S]

2.5D 💙

[@axelh7296]

This shot turned out so well very creative, I find it very inspiring almost shed a tear looking at your video !

[@OlofStorm]

Thanks Alex!

[@ReflexPony]

Realy awsome animation, Realy like the mouvment. It inspire me to finish my animated short film project.

[@chrystalmoeart]

I was so happy when I saw you posted another video. Thank you so much for sharing your workflow! It is indeed very time consuming but result is worth it. Looking forward to seeing more videos from you.

[@OlofStorm]

Thanks Chrystal! Happy to hear that!

[@thehiphoperazed2864]

Pretty fancy moving drawings fellah

[@svenhegenmusic]

Always a great idea to start with a 3D environment for layout and sketching. Seeing the final result of the shot there are two minor things that I would maybe spend a tiny bit more time on. First would be the edge where the grass touches the big boulder, since it does look a tiny bit jittery. And the other thing would be to be careful with scaling the background planes for resolution reasons. I don't really bother the lack of paralax, it's just that when you don't paint them in a super high resolution you can't really zoom in on them that far, before it gets blurry

[@AnimationGuy07]

I love greenery and when you make an environment including trees grass rocks..it feels so lovely😍❤

[@donsdoodleart]

Very true😍

[@Bibliothekaresse]

This is AMAZING!

[@arahampaints4040]

It's a soper noise teknik ,,❤️

[@notl3var]

Love this, I’ve been wanting to do something similar but I didn’t know where to start, thanks. I prefer this method since I’m not too advanced in 3d.

[@donsdoodleart]

😍

[@ElenaBG3]

True artist

[@DanOrtizcreative]

Beautiful work!

[@gfxess]

love it amazing work

[@donsdoodleart]

❤️❤️

[@MrAhmadi67]

Very cool Bro the animation I really like it, greetings of success from Indonesia for Olof Storm

[@hybridanimator]

Love your style of animation and painting. My technique is similar where I use 3D to rough model the environment or characters and then hand draw them as a final render. There is beauty in simplicity. It sure helps having a 3D space reference where you can visually map out your camera movements, drastically improves the workflow.

[@worldsofpivotify]

Great video as always, I've been waiting for new content for a while and this has definitely inspired me to go and animate something

[@OlofStorm]

Thanks! That's great!!

[@kenmillionx]

So great to watch 👍👍 cool video. You are so creative ☺️☺️

[@OlofStorm]

Thanks Ken!

[@moldysann7083]

Truly inspiring work

[@OlofStorm]

Thanks! ☺️

[@pangtrilby9286]

That was crazy helpful! Thank you

[@donsdoodleart]

😍

[@KaNePrime-cp7kz]

this so helpful thankyou.. ! glad found your channel

[@jasonponce7415]

Nice job man, seems like soft soft has gotten a lot more complex since the fruity loops days that I rember. Very helpful, thank you.

[@sunnybran2005]

It's so cool

[@simpsimpson5175]

nice work.looks great

[@jmalmsten]

If you love those shots, I highly recommend a few of Ghinlis other films like Laputa Castle in the Sky. I think the are mostly brute forced hand animated, no computers involved. Especially in those earlier films. But for the shot made here. It looks great regardless of how it was made with the 3D reference to start with. One thing I would probably try to add is the way that Ghibli simulates a random bright highlight reflection on grass and water as they zoom by. It is usually done with some squiggly lines that stay roughly in the same place in frame but represents how light kicks off a few of the blades of grass (or ripples in the water) in each frame as they are in the right angle between the light source and the camera. It'd be a subtle thing as the main subject is the boulder, not the grass reflections. So maybe not worth it on this shot. :)

[@OlofStorm]

Thanks! Yeah those are cool methods one could add!

[@gwena.9523]

Woow great work !

[@mosquito_killer]

it's awesome! thank you

[@LarsRichterMedia]

Hi Olof, EbSynth is something I currently experiment with to save time. What's interesting to me is that the nice "off-look" you're talking about works with handmade stuff by human artists but it doesn't seem to work with AI generated images. That's then called "artifacts". EbSynth may still be useful to save time: You take the 3d model of your landscape -> You paint a few keyframes, ideally when a lot of visual change happens -> run the keyframes through EbSynth to get the other frames -> touch up wherever the AI "failed". The two prerequisites are 1. you have to render an image sequence of the scene from your 3D Software as the base layer video for EbSynth 2. there must be enough information in that 3D sequence for the details of your painted keyframes to be mapped onto. Have you tried this algorithm? I'm still not sure if the effort:benefit ratio is worth it for this method because, again, the AI artifacts of which there are often plenty must be covered up 100% or otherwise there's no good looking "off-look", just artifacts. Cheers and thanks for your efforts, they look amazing as always!

[@donsdoodleart]

Hi

[@donsdoodleart]

Awesome loved it😍

[@RealShadyGraves]

gives me a Ghibli feel. I am trying to learn to photoshop animate since I know photoshop better than any other program. I got some good nuggets from your video.

[@_n0ns0_]

I click this as soon as I saw the notification This is awesome stuff!

[@OlofStorm]

Fantastic! Thanks a lot for the support!

[@frankcrosspix5286]

The work is impressive, hope one day will be able to do this and start doing some great things like you

[@yezzzsir]

Impressive work as always! 👏

[@donsdoodleart]

😍

[@asiavacationhacks]

Now I use Iclone 8 to do some amazing backgrounds by dropping my backgrounds in and adjusting, Multi Camera actions.

[@joehildreth8961]

Amazing work. Have you thought about stretching the rock graphics as they are being scaled? Since the camera is on ground level, the perspective of the rocks no only get larger, but the top portion of the rock will scale larger than the bottom. Maybe tweening them to not only scale, but to warp upwards slightly would give it a more realistic effect. Just spit balling here. I could be wrong. Don't have the bottom 30% of the rocks scale much but the top part part warp up may work well!

[@donsdoodleart]

😍

[@MoSs07]

It’s really helpful ❤

[@YellowDogAnimations]

This is about time. Would be extreme to try and do all of those backgrounds makes me sad to think about actually lol

[@getnews331]

Bro thanks you motivate me one day i will know how to animate😅

[@alexkieslingart]

Awesome! Gonna try this out someday now. Thanks for sharing

[@OlofStorm]

Cheers Alex! The 3d really helps!

[@Juwar1974]

Hi there!. Just found your channel. Great job. Instead of using a computer to get the shot, which seems more complicated to me, I used my drone to get aerial footage. I believe that was how it was done in the past...Someone got in a helicopter, recorded it, and traced the frames. But with drones, the same effect could be done on the cheap.

[@MathiasLynge_]

Love your content Olof, keep it up! 😍

[@OlofStorm]

Thanks Mathias!

[@avtpro]

Beautiful. I love the hand look you got. 3D is ideal and I picked up great techniques from your tutorials. I've been doing 3D for many years but your videos were the first I learn for 2D animation in Photoshop. I would've have liked more info your camera moves on your parallax.

[@OlofStorm]

Cheers! Awesome to hear! In the end its all just 2d. The boulder layer has a scale animation to it, that I matched to the 3d animatic and the far bg is just planning slightly to give a hint of an orbiting motion. All done in AE.

[@rijuvijayan5027]

❤️❤️

[@carlos54590]

Amazing animation bro 💯💯 it reminds me studio Ghibli :)

[@saitamanumber0162]

From what i know, this is the method that Ufotable always used. But they use it not just for the background, it's also for the characters itself.

[@artofbrypaz]

Now Kinda wish I looked at this before animating my “Sonic Took Pikachu” video 😅

[@gauseb]

Can you make a video giving us an update on the rock climbing video? I'd love to see an overview of how it's all working out so far.

[@donsdoodleart]

😍

[@1miltond]

Hi great work i look some of your videos and there are directed to a advance more like a experts audience .in mi case I looking more for step by step so one day a i can get were you are today again great videos

[@AjaythedogMale1606]

You should really need to check Out Arjuna the Warior Prince animation

[@rosevaniabarbosa5231]

lol this actually worked, u know what i thought all these comments were fake; u knowhow utube is nowadays . but i had to come back n verify this workS

[@plingnaco_100]

I love your video!! This is the PERFECT advice video for me Thank you and pls take my LIKE

[@zoerossel3822]

It looks awesome! Combining 3D animation with 2D is so clever! But if I may, I feel like the path might need a bit more details? But again, your work is beautiful, and I admire your patience and skills :)

[@OlofStorm]

Thanks Zoé! Yeah there is always room for more :)

[@graphitepencil6522]

Hey, I'm new here... It's always a dream for me to get that computer amd try making animation. I really enjoy watching your video.

[@maceproduction5697]

Hello from this side.. You are always coming up with amazing videos sir. Sir, I don;t mind if you can make 2hrs to 4 hrs tutorial of your animation workflow... PLEAASEE.... I wish to know more

[@donsdoodleart]

💖me too

[@krishnabaro6036]

It's been a while sir

[@nickvilla3282]

Could you please show how you paint a background u made in cinema 4d? Thanks 🤩🤩🤩

[@izzydoesart3297]

You are my idol

[@aldwenbarte3021]

DUDE, I got so frustrated 'cause of that problem, thanks a lot!

[@finn6492]

How do you keep motivation for such a long project?

[@OlofStorm]

It goes up and down, it helps that I love climbing. It get me psyched to work on it after having been out climbing myself. I am also not bound to make it in any specific way, so I have a lot of freedom to explore and add to it if I want. Keeps things fresh and interesting.