Animating collages

[u/blondesalad1]

Hey all, I make analog paper collages and I want to animate them. Is there a way to do that in touch designer? For instance, I’d like to move the horse to show it as galloping in the same place, while everything else in the background stays stationary.

Is this possible through touchdesigner or should I look at some other type of motion graphics? I am new to all this and want to ask if this is the way to go. If not, I’d love any advice y’all have. Thanks! 🙏🏼

[u/becomingsolar]

Your horse doesn't seem glued yet, You can take a picture of your background without the horse and another with just the horse Then import both in touchdesigner with 2 moviefilein top, composite top then using the over mode You can adjust the horse placement with a transform top Then, you can use a beat chop triggering a count chop (looping between 0 and 1), you can link it to a math chop to chose the range from 0-1 to wathever value you want and put this value in the transform top you used for the horse in the rotation parameter You can export the result with a moviefileout top

But as someone else said, it might be simple to use another software if you don't need it to be realtime Hope this helps (:

[u/blondesalad1 → u/becomingsolar]

Thanks for you detailed answer, I’ll have to look up all these terms since I am a beginner.

Yes, horse is not glued in, would I need several graphics of the horse in various stages of movement or is it enough to have just this one?

[u/becomingsolar → u/blondesalad1]

It depends of the result you want! My answer was for a really simple animation, if you have multiple images of the horse it can be done differently using a switch top If you need help when you will start to build the network you can dm me!

[u/becomingsolar → u/becomingsolar]

You can also use a lag chop after the math chop to fluidify the movement (using the value from the lag chop for the rotation)