aSweetLoveSong

So I was chosen to do two things for a project which is do a sketchy animation based on a storyboard provided and THEN make the lineart for it to then send it off to the colorist of this silly thing. I don't think I can say what the project is, I am not under an oath or contract forbidding me from doing so and I can probably share it once it is done but out of respect for the project I am not saying what it is about I am just talking about the process. So, I don't have any of the higher tier animation apps cause I don't wanna spend the money nor am I confident in like Krita so what I am using is Flip-a-Clip for the sketch and then Ibispaint for the linework. I would of just used Ibispaint only if it had a ability to put audio in it, it does not have a way for you to give it audio and if it did it probably be stuck behind it's prime. While flip-a-clip does not have the same quality as Ibispaint, it at least has a audio function and I not rather try to manually match the audio to a frame and I am fine with watching ads to add the audio.

So I finished the animation so now I am trying to figure out how to more smoothly add the frames from flip-a-clip to Ibis paint. While you can't transfer videos to ibispaint, I saw a bit ago that flip-a-clip has a png sequence option so that was in the back of my head while I was working on it. I was already accepting my fate of downloading 191 pngs to give them their own personal frames over on Ibis paint. Once I actually needed to get all the individual pngs, I find out it is locked behind a subscription. I was ready to purchase whatever just for this project cause the thing is due less than a week and I just wanna transfer these so I was just gonna cancel after the fact.

But then I thought "oh, no there is definetly some app or site that will turn my mp3 and make the individual pngs for each frame" so I just save it as a regular video file and eventually found a site called Ezgif.com which did the trick. I eventually saved all the pngs into a zip, while the site did give the files their own names that basically was like frame 1, frame 2, and so on and so forth. But it didn't save them time-wise in that order so to me I was given a jumble of files not in the right order but I was okay-ish with it, it just means I would take longer trying to put the right file in the right frame cause I got the name of the frames individually.

I got to ibis paint to do the animations linework. I can't customize the animation size cause that is a prime feature but I was fine with just using their 3:4 ratio thing. But my Flip-a-clip pngs were bigger than the canvas and Ibis doesn't auto do the size. If I don't resize ALL of the pngs myself, I would have to reline EACH INDIVIDUAL FRAME for them to line up. It is like instead of using a table or the palms of your hands to straighten up a stack of paper, you had to individually place a paper down and can only adjust one at a time.

I rather not do that cause that makes the progress EVEN LONGER but also any discrepancy will make it shaky and I rather have it exactly the way they lined up in flipaclip. So I go and find ANOTHER website so I can resize ALL the 191 files in bulk. Found a site to do so but I can only do it 60 per task. Which is file, I would just have to do the process like 4 times. I did the first batch.

... It gave the files new names which were straight up numbers, AND I lost which png I stopped at. so right now I am back in flip-a-clip just to number ALL the 191 frames so I can at least recognize what frame is which. so I can turn it into a movie, put the movie in EZGIF to give me the individual frames, take those frame and resize it to the same size as the ibis paint animation file SO THEN I can line art it.

ALL CAUSE IBIS PAINT DOESN'T HAVE AN AUDIO FEATURE AND I DON'T WANNA SPEND MONEY FOR A SUBSCRIPTION.

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And it is like close to 6 am.

Also the work is a fanwork, just for fun.