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Mr. Big makes cartoons
I've tried animating in a variety of different ways, from Flash to ToonBoom to even on paper, but I just could never get a hang of animating and resisted giving it a go again for a long time.
I decided to pick it up again because a friend told me about a software he uses, Krita. This time I'm really have a blast animating. It helps that Krita is very easy to use compared to the other software (it also doesn't really crash easily, like Flash).
This is the first animation I did with it. This is from a scene I storyboarded. I thought it'd look fun animated, so I did it first:
I decided to pick it up again because a friend told me about a software he uses, Krita. This time I'm really have a blast animating. It helps that Krita is very easy to use compared to the other software (it also doesn't really crash easily, like Flash).
This is the first animation I did with it. This is from a scene I storyboarded. I thought it'd look fun animated, so I did it first:
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Next is Felicia. Her hair always covers one of her eyes, but which side depends on what angle she's facing, so I wanted to see how I can achieve that with animating her head turn.
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Animated Chiro flying. Getting the wing flaps right took some challenge, but some animator friends gave me tips that worked out.
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These look smooth and it’s super cool watching you take your work to a new level.
Now add whipcracks and you’re set
Now add whipcracks and you’re set
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Your animation looks really nice, by the way, I will be following you.
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Whenever I see the thread title I read it like "Doing" was pronounced similar like "Boing", just with a D instead of a B.
Having "Animation" next to it makes me think of the springy, jumpy sound effect often heard in cartoons.
Having "Animation" next to it makes me think of the springy, jumpy sound effect often heard in cartoons.
"The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss." - Douglas Adams
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There's a hardware chain in California called "The Doit Center" which I read like "The Doyt Center." A doit pronounced that way is also a trumpet technique.
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There's a conversation in a Homestar Runner cartoon about this.
"What are you doing?"
"Um, Did you just say 'doyng'?"
"What? No. DO-ING. I said, 'What are you DO-ing?'"
"Oh. Well, you spelled it the same."
"Wha-geh...?!"
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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I'll leave the sound effects of Kat taking her tail off to your imagination for the time being.
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That animation also took 4 tries to get it to look remotely decent.
While animating is fun, it's also really hard
While animating is fun, it's also really hard
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The sound of a suction cup being pulled off a wall.
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No! It makes a "Doing" sound.
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Stop doing math
and start living it
and start living it
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This is something I noticed in old anime and some Western cartoons: two frame animation, but with a smear layer added on top to give the illusion of movement
Wanted to try it out
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Attempt #2. I like this one better.
3 drawings. I made the 2nd drawing intentionally rougher to take the smear into account.
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Jordan walking walking walking.
Roughed it out on TV Paint, but cleaned (and fixed) up on Krita.
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Also good job on the animations!!
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Did this on ToonBoom. A friend recommended I try it out, so here it is! Some learning curve but not TOO bad. Here's a sketch version
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For clean-up I inked on Krita (wanted to retain the textured line), but then imported and vectorized on ToonBoom, where I colored.
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For Toon June: Invisible Bridge.
Did this super quick, around 20 minutes.
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I mostly focused on ease-in/out for this shot. Mouse ALSO voiced by Aramek.