Join Richie's trials and tribulations as he fights his way to become an Animation Master by collecting eight badges and battling against the elite four. Or something.
That awkward moment when you know exactly what the next key frame of an animation should look like, know exactly why it should look like that and know the motion involved… But can’t get your hand to understand that information.
This would be so much easier with a CGI rig because you can just drag the control points and let Maya do the work. But that’s why CGI is cheating.
Note: I’m kidding. CGI has it’s own challenges, I know.
Six hours of work… Still not finished tweening. x~x
I should get used to drawing more. It’s been nice watching a drawing slowly turn into an animation, though.
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This animation is so amazing. It's been a long time since something grabbed my attention for so long. I was receiving IMs and being handed mail the whole time and nod once could I bring myself to look away. I even found my eyes getting damp from the emotional build-up it caused - it's just that awe-inspiring.
I especially love how we're encouraged into this little girl's world as she crawls through a gap in the fence. We start off in our own world of sight before following her into her own world - a very clever way of starting. Her "magic wand" is another clever device. Its beautiful as she "creates" her own umwelt, the visuals appearing as splodges of watercolour before she becomes fully comfortable with it and starts imagining full versions of what she's experiencing. The style of the drawings and the music come together to form something truly beautiful.
For about six years now I've had a set of characters heavily based on some friends from highschool. Over that time, the characters have become their own. That is, they started off as humerus characatures and have, over time, taken on a life of their own. The original purpose was for a comic about what would happen if myself and my friends ended up taking on our own fantasy-style adventure in another world. I found this particularly amusing as my friends weren't exactly the perfect team for such a scenario. The comic became a subject of entertainment for people at school and I enjoyed making it.
At the time, I was also going through somewhat of an "anime" phase. As such, the characters are designed to reflect on various anime design traits that I found interesting (the big oddly-shaped eyes, giant implausible hair, etc.) and that is how I usually view them. Because of this, I've wanted to make various anime-styled animations regarding these characters. However, the anime style doesn't exactly lend itself to quick animations, so these small creations would take a very long time to make if I wanted them to look perfect. Another problem is, I don't want to be seen as an anime-obsessed person. Especially given that this would be wildly inaccurate. As such, I have been experimenting with drawing styles that might make these characters more "animatable" and also more visually appealing.
I saw an alien and a bigfoot in the woods last night. The bigfoot was sort of hopping and gliding from foot to foot making heavy breathing sounds as it walked, like Neil Armstrong on the moon. The alien made these really loud, heavy vocalisations that made the hair on the back of my neck stand on end. Then the two creatures looked at each other, pointed at eachother and made converse indications with their hands before laughing silently and switching roles, the bigfoot vocalising and the alien space-walking. It was a very disheartening experience that reminded me just how cruel and mocking the universe can be sometimes.
I did a short animation for one of my friends.
... Like... Just now. Well, I finished just now (at 3:45am) anyway. Love adding those fine details in postproduction.
