RETURN OF THE 'SQUATCH
Multiplane Animation
By Drew McCall
This is a completely legitimate Sasquatch sighting.
In this project, we chose a location in which we would create a 3D effect in a 2D animation. The idea behind it is that the farther away an object is from the viewer, the slower it appears to move as the viewer moves, while the things closest to the viewer move faster. Using the multilane (or rather, multilayer) technique in photoshop, we created this effect by animating the closest layers faster than the farthest layers. In this project I learned that this technique can make an otherwise mediocre animation look professional. It actually wasn't very difficult to do, in my opinion. All you really had to do was keep track of which layers are closest and which are farther away. I really enjoyed this project because very cool effects can be created by using this very simple technique.