# 3D vector animation of people
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/3d-vector-animation-of-people/7159
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [October 24, 2002, 7:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/3d-vector-animation-of-people/7159 "2002-10-24T19:00:09Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@goatlip](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/goatlip)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2002, 7:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/3d-vector-animation-of-people/7159/1 "2002-10-24T19:00:09Z")
I’m trying to figure out how to make a 3d vector animation of a person walking or dancing. more specifically, the outline of a person walking/dancing.
I’ve seen this before on other sites, but can’t remember where. sometimes it’s the 3d outline animation, sometimes its a single-color 2d animation. does that make sense. I’ll try to post an example if I find one.
Anyway, does anyone know this process and have an example or know of a place that shows how it’s done? thanks.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2002, 8:24pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/3d-vector-animation-of-people/7159/2 "2002-10-24T20:24:38Z")
I’ve seen this effect done with Flix. Look them up and you will see an example just like what you have described.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2002, 10:40pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/3d-vector-animation-of-people/7159/3 "2002-10-24T22:40:38Z")
Most of this “people” stuff is video, passed to 2 colors, and then swf-encoded (Flix or Sorenson Squeeze or After Effects)
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2002, 2:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/3d-vector-animation-of-people/7159/4 "2002-10-25T14:26:00Z")
OK. awesome. This is exactly what I’m looking for…
[Wildform Flix Vector Video](http://www.wildform.com/resources/gallery_vv.php?sid=%7BSESSION_ID%7D&ref=)
You can do color, two color, grayscale, and outline. Time to get a DV camera!=)
Thanks Iammontoya
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2002, 3:41pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/3d-vector-animation-of-people/7159/5 "2002-10-25T15:41:57Z")
It is actually possible to do this (kinda) just using Flash. It’s a time consuming process, but since I don’t have one of those fancy video doodads it’s the best I can do.
I just took a series of photographs of someone doing something, scanned them in, traced them, then made a frame by frame animation. Time consuming and high on file size, but maybe smaller than a video thing.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2002, 4:14am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/3d-vector-animation-of-people/7159/6 "2002-10-26T04:14:55Z")
Theres a tutorial on how to do it at
[http://www.ultrashock.com/tutorials/flash5/aftereffects.html](http://www.ultrashock.com/tutorials/flash5/aftereffects.html)
You just need after effects.