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Re: Doing animation
Aramek can have a discussion with himself
also these are v good, please keep doing them
also these are v good, please keep doing them
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Thanks! Really having fun with this
Spent the weekend animating this:
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Did a clean-up of one of the shots to see how it would look. This is what I'm aiming for. I did the clean-ups on Krita because it has the textured brush I want to use (I took a charcoal brush and modified it). I then rendered it back to ToonBoom.
For the backgrounds I wanted something with texture, not wanting to use flat colors, so I took a construction paper, soaked it in water, crumbled it up then flattened, than scanned it in once dry. That resulted in an interesting texture.
Speaking of coloring, I decided to have all the characters rendered solid white, placed against colored textured backgrounds. I wanted to go for the style some older animation did in the 1950s and 1960s where they had the characters painted solid white against brightly colored backgrounds. UPA did a few cartoons in this style, but other places did it, too, like in certain Schoolhouse Rock shorts.
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CLEAN-UPS DONE! For the opening scene, at least.
Test footage. Need to fix some bits (like Cat's spit flickering in one part, edge of background appearing in the beginning, etc.), but the hard part's otherwise done
Here's my attempt at editing. Added some sound effects. Still coupla places that need them, but I'm getting a hang of it.
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Re: Doing animation
As a former cat owner: yes.
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Re: Doing animation
I am enjoying following your progress, and also that the YouTube algorithm recommends videos about mermaids, dancing, and Simon Cowell alongside your animation test
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Had fun with sound effects here. Aramek voiced and mixed the "Awwww"
Also a reminder that I'm posting more animation stuff on my Patreon (shameless plug because I'm hoping to make animation my bigger thing)
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Re: Doing animation
It’s pretty good
I wish you luck
I wish you luck
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This was a film I made in December 2011 during break from school. I animated it on copy paper using a Rapidograph pen and photographed it onto 16mm film with a camera I bought on eBay.
I had it up on YouTube years ago, but it had no sound. This week I finally decided to revisit it and add soundtrack to the film.
Music by Kevin MacLeod.Used under Creative Commons License.
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One of my animation roughs.
It's probably a good thing I'm doing all the clean-ups myself
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I'm in the home stretch with the short!
About 1/3 of the short was cleaned up digitally, but I wasn't satisfied with how the lineart looks (I'm kind of a pain in the ass when it comes to how lineart looks) so I decided to have much of the inking done on paper. Similar to "Fuzzy Princess" comics where I would print out a digitally-drawn sketch then ink on paper, I roughed out the animation digitally on ToonBoom then have each frame printed out for inking.
My printer/scanner came with an option for feed scan, where I would simply stack the drawings and have it run through the feed for scanning, making it helluva lot easier. I scan each drawing at 200dpi JPEG, then import it back to ToonBoom, vectorizing the drawings in the process.
I've been using a variety of markers, mainly Sharpie* and whatever brush pen I can find. I found one pen to give me a specific chunky line I desire. Not an expensive pen, too; just some cheap markers I bought at a store. The ink really bleeds on the paper, giving me the kind of line I desire.
I think this is one of the rare cases where ink bleed is desired among traditional artists
*- SEVERAL Sharpies. Ink dry out quick
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Mr. Big wrote: ↑Fri Jul 10, 2020 2:20 pm
This was a film I made in December 2011 during break from school. I animated it on copy paper using a Rapidograph pen and photographed it onto 16mm film with a camera I bought on eBay.
I had it up on YouTube years ago, but it had no sound. This week I finally decided to revisit it and add soundtrack to the film.
Music by Kevin MacLeod.Used under Creative Commons License.
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Oh, Newgrounds just lets you upload video files now?
I mean, I guess they'd have to; how else would they continue existing in this post-Flash era and whatnot. Still, only took 'em a total existential threat to push them to compete with YouTube.
I mean, I guess they'd have to; how else would they continue existing in this post-Flash era and whatnot. Still, only took 'em a total existential threat to push them to compete with YouTube.
Every jumbled pile of person has a thinking part that wonders what the part that isn't thinking isn't thinking of...
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Yeah it's been that way since 2012.
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Congratulations on second place on the website spun off from a Neo Geo fanzine
(No, but seriously, nice job!)
(No, but seriously, nice job!)
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Thanks!
As for the short I only have two scenes left to inbetween/clean up. Then the animation's all done.
Still need to edit it together, add sound effects, and whatnot, but I'm on final stretch.
As for the short I only have two scenes left to inbetween/clean up. Then the animation's all done.
Still need to edit it together, add sound effects, and whatnot, but I'm on final stretch.
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Ironically, one of the last scenes in the short is the FIRST thing I ever animated (the one where Kat throws a halo like a frisbee).
I didn't really animate in sequence. I pretty much animated the "easy" shots first, before going to harder ones.
I didn't really animate in sequence. I pretty much animated the "easy" shots first, before going to harder ones.
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Re: Doing animation
It’s not far off from how any longer animated film would normally be made, because your lead animators would be assigned to certain characters or scenes so you’ll have a number of scenes being done in tandem, instead of being done in sequence.
although I don’t know how that might have been handled at smaller indie studios like the Hubley studio, or what modern animators like Bill Plympton or Don Hertzfeldt would do with their features
although I don’t know how that might have been handled at smaller indie studios like the Hubley studio, or what modern animators like Bill Plympton or Don Hertzfeldt would do with their features
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I've heard some indie animators animate out of sequence. I know the guy who does "Sublo and Tangy Mustard" is like that. I also saw some of John Dilworth animating his new short (he's been documenting it on YouTube), and he seems to animate out of order, too.
I think it largely depends on the animator and how much they plan ahead. Some animators only plan loosely (if at all) and make up shit as they work further.
I think it largely depends on the animator and how much they plan ahead. Some animators only plan loosely (if at all) and make up shit as they work further.
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Limited animation experiment. Wanted to try animating with very minimal inbetweens.
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Re: Doing animation [EDIT: IT'S DONE]
IT'S LIVE
My first animated short!
Want to thank everyone for their support during its making.
Want to especially give shout outs to Aramek for doing all the voices, and Madeline for her advice on the script (which I wrote 2 years ago, lol)
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Gonna need a looping gif of the cat kneading tia
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Ask and ye shall receive!
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That was a nice lil' thing
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Re: Doing animation [EDIT: IT'S DONE]
This is some good stuff!
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Thanks for the kind words, everybody!
Lengthy behind the scenes stuff:
Lengthy behind the scenes stuff:
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All in all, this was a learning experience. I did bits and pieces of animation before, but this is the first time I did it in earnest. I was learning as I was making it, trying to figure out what works best for me, but I had no illusion that my first cartoon was going to be "perfect", so I didn't let it sweat me too much.
I think I'm better prepared for the next cartoon, though. I also want to give animating Fuzzy Princess a shot.
I think I'm better prepared for the next cartoon, though. I also want to give animating Fuzzy Princess a shot.
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So "Ask a Cat" is technically back, I guess, but in animation form!
Right now I'm mining through old strips for ideas (the letters featured were taken from old strips), but if anyone want to send me questions, feel free to leave them here or PM me
Right now I'm mining through old strips for ideas (the letters featured were taken from old strips), but if anyone want to send me questions, feel free to leave them here or PM me
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That was really well done.