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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E5tMXVfaEE Clip Studio Paint recently put out a new version that came with new brush sets, so I decided to try some out for animation.
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Mister Beeg posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E5tMXVfaEE I liked how this looks, and would add using the watercolor as a cycle would strengthen its textural effect. Have you ever done sumi ink/how big do you work usually?
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FunkyAl posted:I liked how this looks, and would add using the watercolor as a cycle would strengthen its textural effect. Have you ever done sumi ink/how big do you work usually? I wouldn't mind trying out hand coloring animation with inkwash! Just a matter of figuring out how to work around it. I have animation paper and Acme peghole puncher, so I got the essentials, at least. As for the resolution, I usually animate at 2048x1152 (2k HD), although for the web upload I render it to the usual 1928x1048.
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Created a loop with my characters. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2j26DOHERCM
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I bought the animator's survival kit off of amazon; any other books on animation I should get to learn foundational skills in animation or the 12 principles? My goal is to learn skills as a 3D character animator for games.
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The Illusion of Life https://www.amazon.com/dp/0786860707/ Before the Animator’s Survival Kit, it was the de facto bible of animation.
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CaptainCrunch posted:The Illusion of Life Thanks!
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For game animation specifically you’ll also want to check out Jonathan Cooper’s book on the subject. https://www.gameanim.com/book/ Also while self teaching is possible, most people who break into the industry do so by taking classes through iAnimate or Anim School’s game animation programs. It also really helps to be located in a place where the tax credits subsidize the game industry. For example Montreal is stuffed to the gills with game studios because the government is subsidizing everyone by 40%. Meanwhile it’s very difficult to find entry level jobs in the US because there isn’t a subsidy system. Though games are on a bit better financial footing than vfx companies, so they didn’t all flee to the tax havens the way the visual effects industry has.
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Ccs posted:For game animation specifically you’ll also want to check out Jonathan Cooper’s book on the subject. Currently I am in Montreal working as a gameplay developer. Albeit, not directly for the games industry. I help maintain/add features to industry training simulators.  But at least if I work here for long enough transfering into the actual industry should be easier by actually having "game developer x years" on my CV.I'm mainly interested in learning animation for indie game personal/side projects and as a potential fall back career as I find it really fun/satisfying. I have some experience with 3D character modeling, rigging and animation but still fairly beginner.
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Raenir Salazar posted:Currently I am in Montreal working as a gameplay developer. Albeit, not directly for the games industry. I help maintain/add features to industry training simulators. Oh nice, you're in absolutely the perfect place for breaking into games. I work in tv/vfx animation in Montreal and work with tons of people who have done stints at Ubisoft or Eidos or WB Games. I got contacted just the other day about going to work at a games studio but my current contract isn't over for a while so I couldn't jump right at the moment. Games is probably where I want to end up long term though as it seems more stable than vfx/tv. Though not always, or some of the ppl I work with would still be at those games studios. Still, I know people who have worked at Ludia or Eidos for 10+ years and get bonuses every year which is just unheard of in tv/vfx.
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Still in the process of finishing a cartoon based on my webcomic. Put together a rough cut using finished animation and animatic, and it wound up being over 17 minutes long! Whoa! Well, half of it is animated (I started back in March), so I'm gonna see that I finish it. In the meantime, I took the time to do this ditty for a Saturday Morning animation jam. This was inspired by a real PSA that aired on ABC for years called "Don't Drown Your Food". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzavTZT97l4
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Made a new sizzle reel for my animation. Has some WIPs for the new cartoon I'm making https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtICjfgCUT0
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I made a film https://vimeo.com/579458197
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Neon Noodle posted:I made a film Very neat! Nice work on the film
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Neon Noodle posted:I made a film I appreciate that this film was skeptical yet not dismissive of the weird mojo about meditation. You're really doing crazy stuff with the lighting and textures, was there any trick to the prism?
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Thanks guys. The prism model itself couldn't be simpler, it's just a faceted shape with a Glass BSDF shader. The rays have various shader parameters and a displacement modifier being driven by the sound F-curve. When the sound is loud it makes the white beam brighter and wiggle more, etc.
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I'm at the point with my 20-minute cartoon where I'm starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel, but it still feels so far. I'm 3/4 done with the animation, with 44 scenes left to do (including a handful being done by animators I know). Still been a good experience. Doing all of this made me learn some approaches to animation that makes me learn to be efficient, which will hopefully save me time when I do new cartoons (although for future cartoons I'm gonna cap the running time to 10 minutes, at least for a while) In the meantime, here's a sketchy layout https://twitter.com/bakertoons/status/1423823152350695428/
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Holy cow, 20 minutes!! Are you still working in CSP?
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Neon Noodle posted:Holy cow, 20 minutes!! Are you still working in CSP? Yeah, it's all CSP! My friend is animating his scenes in Krita, though, which I then import to CSP for clean-up and coloring. I use DaVinci Resolve for editing. I've adapted to CSP very well for animating. Very much have a handle with it, including how to do lip-sync efficiently.
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Down to 26 scenes with my cartoon. Hoping I can finish by next month. I'm taking a long nap after it's over. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGHHxQPe8tc Here's a peek in the meantime.
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https://twitter.com/bakertoons/status/1433302879536812035 Update. Down to 8 scenes now. I have all the "hard" scenes completed (scenes with lots of movements and action), so I'm pretty much left with scenes that's mostly talking head. I started working on this last October (although the animation process didn't begin until March), so being so close to done is an odd feeling.
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I'm looking forward to seeing how it turns out when it's finished. I'm about to embark on making a few shorts, but in the end it should turn out to be around the same length... I hope it won't take a year, but I'm prepared! Since we had a couple months pause and because we were high off our scriptapalooza placing, we wrote a few shorts. Maybe next time we pitch, we might have a little more of a fan base than my girlfriend's mom. In other news, my writing partner and I have been hired to write for another online animated children's program! This one is just an episode here and there compared to _____which is all the writing. NDAs so I can't say too much, but we are having fun. One was delayed for a couple months due to the pandemic, and the other is all remote based and is chugging along. Also, post more stuff whoever is reading this. We know you got something working! An Ounce of Gold fucked around with this message at 17:06 on Oct 26, 2021 |
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The cartoon's done! Clocked in shy of 18 minutes. Longest piece I ever done. Will release on Thursday! Ahh! https://twitter.com/bakertoons/status/1434688932453756928/ An Ounce of Gold posted:I'm looking forward to seeing how it turns out when it's finished. I'm about to embark on making a few shorts, but in the end it should turn out to be around the same length... I hope it won't take a year, but I'm prepared! Since we had a couple months pause and because we were high off our scriptapalooza placing, we wrote a few shorts. Maybe next time we pitch, we might have a little more of a fan base than my girlfriend's mom. Very exciting!  Best of luck!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntXuG8u9OY0 It's finally out. 11 months of work, including the last six months spent animating non-stop. Hope you enjoy! Based on my webcomic, been wanting to transition it to web animation.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lrb7XdqX6j4 I used CSP to make my "Katrina" cartoon above. I definitely recommend it. Here's a tutorial if anyone wants to try it out.
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Feels weird that I'm the only person posting here, but I figure I'd share this https://twitter.com/bakertoons/status/1455916929416368140/ I did a bunch of storyboards, including two "Fuzzy Princess" cartoons and a bunch with other ideas. Hoping to have a productive 2022. Already sent some scripts to my voice actor. My "Katrina" cartoon got a very good reception, so that's been encouraging, hence why I'm making more with the characters!
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Mister Beeg posted:Feels weird that I'm the only person posting here, but I figure I'd share this Keep it going! I only had a chance to watch the opening bit, but what I did see I liked. It reminded me of the Peanuts. It had that laid back chill vibe going on. Also your sound design was really well done. Not just the voices, but the balance on your sound effects and background music was great. When I get some free time, I'l lfinish watching it. It's on my watch later list on youtube so I won't forget. Inspiring stuff! I haven't posted much because I've been making internal motion graphics for a pharmaceutical company that I cannot name due to a NDA (but it's a big one!). They've added me to their talent pool and offer me jobs first. That is paying my bills right now. The only bad part is that it means that I can't work on my own animations. E: serious question time: why not make digital storyboards? I made a few templates in AI and group each section together as a card (in case I need to move things around). I have not looked back at paper since.
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An Ounce of Gold posted:
Yeah, I use Wonderunit storyboarder for my digital storyboards. It's free and good!
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Great stuff Mister Beeg! I would give your socials a follow but I've maxed out on my twitter the number of people I can follow.  For the thread in general, I got my copies of the Animators Survival Guide (softcover), The Illusion of Life (hardcover, was cheaper than softcover), and Game Anim; any other resources that would be good for 3D animation or maybe modelling, rigging and so on? Maybe something more geared towards actually shooting/compositing scenes? I'm primarily using Blender.
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An Ounce of Gold posted:Keep it going! I only had a chance to watch the opening bit, but what I did see I liked. It reminded me of the Peanuts. It had that laid back chill vibe going on. Also your sound design was really well done. Not just the voices, but the balance on your sound effects and background music was great. When I get some free time, I'l lfinish watching it. It's on my watch later list on youtube so I won't forget. Thanks for the kind words! and especially your comments about the sound mixing. I agonize about sound a lot in my cartoons and spent a LOT of hours trying to find the right balance with voices, sound effects, and music, so I'm very relieved and happy to hear that my efforts paid off! As for storyboards, I find doing it on paper easy to focus. I prefer doing them in a separate room, away from my tablet, because it keeps me focused better. My storyboards are very scribbly, and it's more satisfying doing it on paper. It's just a personal thing for me, I guess. I have no problem scanning it in because I have a feed scanner. I do all animation digitally with my tablet, although it's still traditional frame-by-frame. Two other people helped out on the animation front, and one of them did his scene on paper, which I scanned and cleaned up. Curious if anyone can tell which scene was done on paper. Mister Beeg fucked around with this message at 04:55 on Nov 7, 2021 |
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Did this GIF on the fly (heh). I recently modified the bat character's design from my cartoon (giving her a fang and tail, specifically). Did a quick animation just to see it in motion https://twitter.com/bakertoons/status/1457575366927818755 I normally don't share GIFs I make here, but I'm so happy with how this came out I'm making an exception.
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https://twitter.com/bakertoons/status/1458303023109873664 Some of you might remember my "Ask a Cat" strip, which ran on GoComics for several years. I'm planning to revive it for animation, with the goal of releasing it periodically (semi-weekly, hopefully). Here's an intro animation I did.
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https://twitter.com/bakertoons/status/1462903442041618436 Add this to "something only I'll care about," but yeah, I did have my animation transferred to 16mm.
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Hey that's pretty cool! I don't know what I would do with it, but it's pretty awesome.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKHi-G82upk Working on a 2nd episode of an "Ask a Cat" series of shorts! I posted the full animatic for my backers on Patreon if anyone's interested (hope it's OK to plug) Starting to work on the 2nd Fuzzy Princess episode as well. I'm in the process of getting the voices recorded! Here's a page from the boards: 
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Something silly. For the "Katrina" cartoon there were several dialogues that were recorded but never used. This was one of it. I liked the dialogue enough that I wanted to animate it as a standalone clip, though, so here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CB9HEdGC92k
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Has anyone ITT used Procreate to do any animation and what did you think of it? I want to do a short, 15-20 seconds, and I haven't done any animating before. I just want to see examples of what people have done with the app. I sketch with it a lot but have never tried animation.
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https://twitter.com/bakertoons/status/1477366296929091593 GIF I made for the New Year. Working on recording voices for the new "Fuzzy" cartoon. I'm hoping I can outdo the pilot in future episodes, although that was still a big undertaking. It was expensive to make, too (I spent thousands on it), but I'm hoping I can face through it!
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