A beginner's guide to WhoSprites
Advanced System for Animated Doctor Who Reconstructions
By Garrett Gilchrist
Welcome to WhoSprites, a collection of high quality digital artwork intended to make it possible for you - yes, you - to animate lost Doctor Who episodes, bringing them back to life.
You are free to use this artwork, as long as you give credit to Garrett Gilchrist and WhoSprites and the BBC, and as long as you are legitimately using it to animate lost Doctor Who episodes from the Troughton and Hartnell eras for no profit. You can write me at tygerbug (at) yahoo.com. Doctor Who is copyright the BBC, and no infringement is intended. These images are not intended for commercial use or profit.
The sprites are located in these directories:
http://orangecow.org/who-sprites2
http://ffrevolution.com/whosprites
A huge amount of artwork has been created, covering pretty much all the Hartnell and Troughton companions, and supporting characters from certain stories (like Evil of the Daleks, The Tenth Planet, and Power of the Daleks). However, most of this artwork is still line art, and has not yet been colored in photorealistic detail. (Or one frame has been colored but this hasn't been applied to every frame yet.)
This beginner's guide will show you which characters HAVE been finished in full color, and which files you should download to get started on trying to animate these characters.
Each character will have a bunch of different heads. Each head has a different expression on it. All have different mouths, half have different eyes. You should be animating the heads and eyes separately.
Use the soundtrack to any lost episode, such as Evil of the Daleks or Marco Polo. All are available on CD from the BBC, and reconstructions are available on the internet and at recons.com, for free. Also for free at the BBC site are telesnaps from the missing episodes, photographs which will show you what the characters and scenes looked like.
Use all the different heads, in a video editing or animation program, such as Final Cut Pro, Premiere, or Flash. Every few frames or so, switch to a different head, to match the lip sync on the audio. Make the mouth movements match what you hear.
Have a look in the 1videos directory and watch the videos that have already been done, to see what the animation is supposed to look like. Also purchase the BBC DVD of "The Invasion."
Every JPEG of the finished "head"s and "headless" bodies are on a bluescreen or greenscreen so you and your computer know what to cut out.
You can actually just animate the heads, static, on that blue or green background, getting the lip sync right with the head itself not moving at all, and then figure out the body and head movement later, as well as what the background will be.
Now, let's get started downloading!
Tutorial: "How to Do it" - This talks about lip sync. You've already read some of this.
Tutorial: "Color Layers" - This tells you how to create your own color sprites from the black and white sprites posted in the main directories, by using the provided color layers. For advanced users only!
Patrick Troughton - version 7
This versatile sprite comes with 22 different heads, and a headless partial body, capturing the second Doctor in great detail and with a huge amount of different eyes. Reference from "Tomb of the Cybermen." Download all these different heads here:
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Partial Body 1.7M
William Hartnell - version 5
This version of the First Doctor comes with 21 different heads, and a headless partial body. Reference from "The Daleks' Master Plan." Download all these different heads here:
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Partial body
Another Hartnell (6) with body - might be useful for the body.
Another Hartnell (7) with body - might be useful for the body.
Jamie MacCrimmon - Version 2
The second Doctor's constant companion, played by Frazier Hines. Comes with 23 different heads, and a headless partial body that shows his costume from "Evil of the Daleks" and "The Faceless Ones." If you need to animate Jamie in another story, you can create a different body for him to match his clothes in that story. Reference from "The Enemy of the World." Download all these different heads here:
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Partial Body 2.8M
Partial Body (altered)
Patrick Troughton - Version 6
The second Doctor comes with 15 different heads, and a headless partial body. Reference from "The Evil of the Daleks." Download all these different heads here:
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Partial body
Victoria Waterfield - Version 1
The second Doctor's companion played by Deborah Watling comes with 22 different heads, and a headless partial body or two. She appears here in her costume and hairstyle from "Evil of the Daleks." Line art was also drawn of her in her costume from "The Abominable Snowmen" but this has not yet been colored. If needed I might provide modified heads with hairstyles from other stories. Download all these different heads here:
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Headless full body taken from another version of Victoria 5.1M
Headless partial body 11.3M
Line art in "Abominable Snowman" costume
Victoria Waterfield - Version 4
The second Doctor's companion played by Deborah Watling comes with 30 different heads, and a headless partial body or two. She appears here in her costume and hairstyle from "Evil of the Daleks." A head with "Tomb of the Cybermen" hair is also available (and pictured above). Reference from "Tomb of the Cybermen." If needed I might provide modified heads with hairstyles from other stories. Download all these different heads here:
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Headless full body 5.1M
Body small version 1.7M
Body medium version 2.8M
Full head with partial neck 1.9M
Color Layer Only 1.7M
Head with Tomb of the Cybermen Hair 1.5M
Color layer with Tomb of the Cybermen Hair 2 1.4M
Color layer with Tomb of the Cybermen Hair 1.6M
Looking left with Tomb of the Cybermen Hair 694k
Edward Waterfield - Version 1
This supporting character from "Evil of the Daleks" comes with 21 different heads, and a headless partial body.Download all these different heads here:
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Partial Body
Theodore Maxtible - Version 1
This supporting character from "Evil of the Daleks" comes with 18 different heads, though no body yet.Download all these different heads here:
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You are free to use this artwork, as long as you give credit to Garrett Gilchrist and WhoSprites and the BBC, and as long as you are legitimately using it to animate lost Doctor Who episodes from the Troughton and Hartnell eras for no profit. You can write me at tygerbug (at) yahoo.com. Doctor Who is copyright the BBC, and no infringement is intended. These images are not intended for commercial use or profit.
More sprites are located in these directories:
http://orangecow.org/who-sprites2
http://ffrevolution.com/whosprites
See the latest sprites in this thread at FFrevolution.com.
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