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Animation Tip: Printable Template for 4:3 Frame Drawings

By Adrien-Luc Sanders, About.com

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File contents:

  • 8x10 JPEG format image with text included.
  • 8.5x11 Microsoft Word (.doc) document with image embedded and text in document header and footer.
  • I originally created this template for myself, but thought you folks might find it handy. It's a framed 4:3 aspect ratio drawing area with areas in the margins for me to pencil in the date of the drawing, the frame number out of a sequence of X number of frames, the project the drawing belongs to, and the scene that the drawing is from.

    The preprinted frame helps me align my animation drawings properly when I'm laying them on top of each other on my light table, and if I'm scanning my images to color and sequence them digitally, gives me a perfect frame to use to crop the images down to the exact frame size without ruining the alignment with the other frames. Any time I run out, I can just run another batch off the printer or take a single printout down to the local copy center to get a bulk batch done.

    Hope it's as useful for you as it is for me.

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