As others have said, there are several ways (After Effects, etc.) to semi-automate the process.
However, if I were to do it I would completely hand-draw the frames. That's going to give you a much more natural and really organic look than any electronic manipulation of the frames.
We have Wacom tablets and I
might give them a try... but for maximum organicness I'd whip out a Sharpie marker and a stack of paper and start drawin'. It might be easiest to use a lightbox and draw a "master" frame first and then trace the other frames on top of that one. Then scan the pages, and in Photoshop use the black-on-white drawings to create alpha channels on the images, change the color of the type, etc. The scanning would be the labor-intensive part of that... after you processed one in Photoshop to get the results you want you could simply batch-process the rest. Then import the sequence, and loop it as many times as you need for length.
As Mark said, probably at least three images would be a minimum. I'd probably try at least five... maybe more. And on your timeline you
might want a 1-to-1 ratio (one frame of the title for each frame of the video), but it would be worth experimenting with slower rates as well... maybe the image changes only every
two frames instead of with every frame.
T2
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