User Guide

Academic Courseware: Chapter 8
Joyce Ryan
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Combining the best of both: Rotoscoping 3-D
3-D animation programs have changed the face of animation. Some of
the best films are made by artfully combining 2-D and 3-D animation.
Corel Painter can be used in many ways to tweak the look and feel of
animation done in a 3-D program. The following image of a
swordswoman, created in a 3-D program, was combined with a
background created in Corel Painter.
3-D model of street and swordswoman matched and rendered
over the 2-D Corel Painter background.
Creating the background
The background was created in Corel Painter from a photograph.
Photograph of John Ryan by the author, Joyce Ryan.
Combining 2-D elements
with 3-D animation can save a great
deal of time. “Render unto 3-D what
should be 3-D, and render unto 2-D
what should be 2-D” is an important
lesson to learn. If your background is
going to have to turn in space, by all
means model it in 3-D. If it is
stationary, save yourself a tremendous
amount of rendering time by creating
the background in 2-D in the proper
perspective, then match the 3-D model
to the background.