The next day, Luca and Alberto try out their scrap scooter by riding down the island's hill. They spend a couple of hours perfecting it before Luca realizes he needs to return home. Alberto explains that it is a vehicle that can take you anywhere Luca becomes entranced with the idea of owning one and traveling the world and suggests that they take the junk that he has collected to build one. Next, Alberto takes him to his hideout, a tall abandoned tower, and shows him all the things he has collected, including a poster for a Vespa, an Italian scooter. Luca is mystified at having legs to stand on, and Alberto gives him a quick lesson on walking. Luca soon becomes attracted to going back to the surface, and Alberto eggs him to come up. He is confronted by Daniela for being gone for a long time, but Grandma protects Luca by claiming that she sent him out to get sea cucumbers. Scared but amazed, Luca returns to the ocean. He forces Luca up to show him what it is like and discovers that he transforms into a human when he hits dry land.
The diver turns out to be another sea monster named Alberto Scorfano, who had been collecting the items to begin with and taking them back to his hideout on the surface. The next day, Luca follows a trail of more human objects until he is cornered by what looks like a deep-sea diver. On the other hand, his grandmother openly discusses her adventures on the surface in the past and seems supportive of Luca wanting to get out. His mother, Daniela, is highly protective of him and warns him of being caught by anyone from the surface, while his father, Lorenzo, is slightly inattentive and distracted. Luca, bored with his simple life, takes notice of a clock and a joker card that he found on the ocean floor. Luca Paguro is a sea monster who farms goatfish for his family in a hidden area of the ocean. Upon seeing it, they recognize it as a sea monster and try to catch it, but it escapes, much to their dismay. Two fishermen, Giacomo and Tommaso, are out at night trying to catch fish when a strange creature suddenly begins swiping things from their boat. Luca shares these adventures with his newfound best friend, but all the fun is threatened by a deeply-held secret: they are sea monsters from another world just below the water's surface. This is a very simple yet effective introduction to the art of replacement animation.Set in a beautiful seaside town on the Italian Riviera (Liguria), Disney and Pixar's original feature film Luca is a coming-of-age story about one young boy experiencing an unforgettable summer filled with gelato, pasta, and endless scooter rides. Instead of doing the entire animation process in reverse, you just reverse the pictures you already have. Once everything has been filmed, the animator shows an edit hack in Photoshop where artists can “paste reverse” the footage to create something like a GIF. As that last shape is added, the stars and clouds that were introduced toward the end are moved around shot-by-shot to create a movement effect within the video. The last few shots will be adding that final layer of cloud that portrays the explosion effect. Once the colors and layers have been established in the previous shots, it’s time to lead into the final frames.Īlong with a big piece that eventually will turn into an animated cloud of smoke that says “POW,” Zemp added little cutouts of blue stars and white puffy clouds around the explosion. You can also use two pieces of shaped paper to make the subject appear larger in the final cut.Ĭredit: The Slanted Lens Showing Progression Through Sizeīecause the subject of the video is an animated explosion, the artist’s goal is to create the visual of something growing rapidly in size. A key to achieving that vibrant colorful end to your animation is adding a new color from your color scheme with each shot until a pattern has been created. ConsistencyĮach shot will be in the same spot, but the paper shapes will vary in color, form, and size. This brings the shapes physically closer to the camera. Starting off with a small-shaped paper, the artist continually adds different blocks under different pieces of paper with each shot. Getting the first frame is easy-it’s just blank!įor the most effective/vibrant animation, the next shots that lead up to the big “pop” effect will be layered. These will come into play later, though.Ĭredit: The Slanted Lens Setting Up Your Shot
Zemp chooses to tape every corner of her surface to avoid movement.įor placing the paper, you may want to prepare tools such as rectangular blocks to give the frame some depth. Before taking any photos, you need to solidify your surface so your paper subjects don’t move when you don’t want them to.