The Making Of

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"First of all I imported a BMP image of the Alcisa logo in the TAB and I traced one pig only, as the three pigs aren't very different one from another. At the beginning I drew the whole pig on one level only; then I separated each part of the pig's body on a level apart, with simple copy & paste operations on empty columns."

"I painted each level with flat colors and I created a level for the shadows and another for the lights. To use a kind of airbrush effect I chose the "Fade" special style. I saved in the palette several versions of this style, with different tones and transparency values, and I used them to draw all the body shadows and lights of my character. The Pump, the Magnet and the Iron tools were very useful to shape up my shadows."

Drawing and animating the character in the TAB. Click images to enlarge.

"To animate the walk I used a hybrid of motion interpolation and manual inbetweening: after having assigned some rotation to legs and arms with keyframes, I made some adjustments to drawings in order to adapt them frame by frame. I mainly used the Pinch tool in this session."

"I gave two loops of a walking pig (one with the pig dressed in red and one in white) to the composer and she used them for the final video compositing."

Michele Florio, animator.