How to animate an illustration with Anime Studio Pro. In this tutorial Dutch animator Stefan de Groot explains how he animates his pastel drawings in Anime Studio Pro 11. You can make animation of drawings or paintings you drew on paper. I have beem using this technique for adapting Children’s Books for animation for TV and apps. Scan in your drawings of take pictures of your drawings and open them in Photoshop. In Photoshop you can combine the file of the background and the character. When you open up Anime Studio Pro 11, you can import the apse file and choose individually. Anime Studio Pro will then import your PSD-file in layers.
You can rig your character with bones and animate you character with just the bones. The bones will move your hand drawn art and reserve the natural look of your art.