We’re going to retrace the sketched artwork onto blank paper with clean, dark lines. To start off, affix your first rough detailed sketch to your light table, whether by tape or by peg bar, whichever you prefer.
Animating from Pencil to PC III: Retracing & Line Weight
By Adrien-Luc Sanders, About.com
When we last left off, we’d gone through and done all of our detailed sketches for the key frames and in betweens of our animation, basing them off of the rough motion sketches we’d done before and using the details on the keys to interpolate the details on the in-betweens. What we need to do next is fairly easy, but time consuming – but there are still a few helpful points to keep in mind.
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