Need to do a simple animatic.

[THX1138]

Hi Gang.
I posted this in the Photoshop section as well.

I need to put together a simple animatic sequence tomorrow for a production company. Mostly it'll consist of cross dissolves between drawings. Occasionally, though, I'll need to do a simple movement of a piece of a drawing (i.e. the person's head turns to the left or right). This, too, can be a cross dissolve, but would involve having just that portion of the drawing as a separate image with an alpha channel (I assume this is correct?).
I'll be cutting in FCP.
My question is, is creating the cutout image easiest in Photoshop? Do I need to concern myself with square vs. rectangular pixels?
This will be a PAL project most likely.

Thanks in advance for any help you can offer. It's most appreciated.

travis

 

[sink]

if you just need to do dissolves, prep all your art in photoshop seperating everything on to thier own layer. If you have AE its way easier to just import the psd as a comp so it will perserve the layers otherwise just import them individually into FCP line them up and add your tansitions...
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