Author: JimSweet
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-----Don Bluth's laser disc video games Dragon's Lair and Space Ace have inspired me, probably more than anything, to want to do animation. So here's a small project I decided to do. There was one scene in Space Ace that I wanted to try to redo. It's not because I thought it was bad, anything the Don Bluth and his animators do in the style they do it is great to me. I just wanted to rework the frames of animation in this one scene and make them look slightly different. The scene where Dexter says "Far out", to me, one of his eyes made him look cross eyed. So I wanted to see if I could adjust that eye and redraw this scene for my own entertainment. ---- Back in the 80's, trying to draw in the Dragon's Lair / Space Ace style took me a little time. Even when trying to draw Dexter from the "far out" scene for the first time from memory, I drew him cross eyed. So this scene always stuck out to me. I still don't quite got that Dragon's Lair, Space Ace style down, but working on this project helped me some more. The animation still works the same even after adjusting the drawings slightly, but to me I'm no longer focused on that one eye that appeared to be crossed. I kept young Dexter in this scene pretty much the same. ----- I then proceeded to try adding light or shadows to the reworked animation which usually appears flat with one different color for each individual thing. This took some time and I'm not sure the effect of coloring in light or shadows is worth it. I think the basic animation works well enough on its own, since the movement is probably the most important thing and not some much the quality of the individual drawings. ----- This project was done by redrawing each frame by hand in pencil, importing the drawings into Flash 5, tracing each drawing using the line tool, adding colors, drawing the effects, adding the same background and then exporting the video into windows movie maker.