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Neon Noodle
Nov 11, 2016

there's nothing wrong here in montana
Happy 2017 Trash Bros

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUqllMbsbCU

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Neon Noodle
Nov 11, 2016

there's nothing wrong here in montana
Hello again. I'd like some feedback on this WIP for the January 11 Second Club. I'm trying to decide whether I want to do another pass on this and make it cleaner/tighter. On the one hand, it's very messy and loose and the wiggly lines are distracting. On the other hand, I don't want to kill the sketchiness too much or deaden it. What do y'all think I should do?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJKqMFy_1XM

Neon Noodle
Nov 11, 2016

there's nothing wrong here in montana

bitmap posted:

helpful things
Thank you for that feedback! I know you're correct re: the "intent" component, since there were big straight-ahead stretches for both of those pieces. I think the next time I attempt to work in this mode I would split the character into more levels and take advantage of the moving holds. I got screwed up A LOT by the fact that the hands are on their own charts but the whole thing is animated on a single level. So I had to traceback stupid poo poo like the shoulders which are in fact totally static through the piece. If I had held elements on their own levels, then the line boil would be OK where things are actually moving, and not be so bad because it would be on every single exposure (some of which is made worse by lip synch or fast hand motions on 1's.)

Learning process... :unsmith:

Neon Noodle
Nov 11, 2016

there's nothing wrong here in montana

bitmap posted:

could have fooled me
Yeah your stuff looks :discourse:

After doing my last animation I went back and did some studying on charting my inbetweens properly instead of just straight-aheading everything. Watched this video which was EXTREMELY helpful:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rp3zXBEhCE

I tried to apply that to this, and I think it turned out better than a lot of things I've done in the past as regards keeping a good line quality and not being too squishy squashy:

Neon Noodle
Nov 11, 2016

there's nothing wrong here in montana

Communist Toast posted:

I never ended up finishing the Loop challenge I posted before , got this far before deadline hit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5G1cWgRHhzM
Might tie it up later.

Edit: watching that video right now Neon Noodle, drat this is really helpful. Thanks for posting
Yes tie that up, finish that no matter what, it's wonderful. Great moods you have going on there in the layouts!

I'm working on a big thing right now, I'll post it when it's done. I feel like I'm starting to see the Matrix. :lsd:

Neon Noodle
Nov 11, 2016

there's nothing wrong here in montana
Those backgrounds :staredog:
Also: welcome back!

Neon Noodle
Nov 11, 2016

there's nothing wrong here in montana
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YppKKHTVQo

Here's what I've been working on this week for an experiment.

Neon Noodle
Nov 11, 2016

there's nothing wrong here in montana

Ccs posted:

The drawings are good. The poses are getting lost though. Try to hold the poses longer and then have clear breakdowns, right now everything is kind of floating from one pose to the next.

Yeah after working a ton on it I lost sight of the holds. I think I felt bad if it stopped moving. I have to remember that for next time. Thanks for the feedback :)

Edit: thinking back on some of the older stuff I have done, I felt like I was leaning too heavily on tracebacks for a while. I think I went too far the other direction. This feedback will be a good triangulation back to something more balanced.

Neon Noodle fucked around with this message at 21:45 on Jan 29, 2017

Neon Noodle
Nov 11, 2016

there's nothing wrong here in montana
The timing seems extremely even. If I were you I would shorten some of the 12f holds and give it a little more texture.

Neon Noodle
Nov 11, 2016

there's nothing wrong here in montana
What should I charge per minute for 2D animatics? Potential freelance gig here but I'm not sure what to charge.

Neon Noodle
Nov 11, 2016

there's nothing wrong here in montana
Yah. I'd be one of multiple artists doing animatics for the basis of overseas 3DCG animation. Client said they need 30 min of animatics total and they're expecting 1 minute per week.

Neon Noodle
Nov 11, 2016

there's nothing wrong here in montana
No, a tiny studio. The guy I'm corresponding with is running the project, I think he runs the recording studio where they did the dialogue. But there's no info on the site for that studio re: the animation stuff, and he doesn't have any IMDb credits. He says he is paying the freelancers via PayPal. He asked me to do a 10-15 second test of some non-production audio, and showed me the material they're using for the film. It appears to be a Christian themed kids cartoon. This fits in with the recording studio part because they've worked with a lot of CCM artists.

Does this all sound horribly sketchy? Are there things that sound like red flags? They offered $400 per minute of animatic, with 2-3 rough drawings (TV storyboard level of detail) per second.

Neon Noodle
Nov 11, 2016

there's nothing wrong here in montana

Elsa posted:

There's the rate you should charge but then there's the rate that won't get undercut by someone else. I would expect this person has put out feelers elsewhere. They might tolerate a small price increase but not if it breaks someone else's bid.

bitmap posted:

Eh, go for half up front and half on completion because they don't have a body of work and you havent worked with them before. Push that rate way on up unless you can do it all in a day or two, in my opinion.

Cool, thanks for the input. I think I'm not going to do it. It would be like having a second job and I have a couple other freelance things bubbling away at the moment... In theory I'd like to have a proper professional credit somewhere, but part of me also just wants to do my own poo poo and not really worry about being "marketable." I'm at the age now where a studio isn't going to hire me for an entry-level artist position, and if I'm going to bust rear end for an additional 20 per week on top of my existing 40 hour job, I might as well put that energy into my own films and such.

Neon Noodle
Nov 11, 2016

there's nothing wrong here in montana

I loving love this. It's so perverted.

Neon Noodle
Nov 11, 2016

there's nothing wrong here in montana

Ccs posted:

I learned that stepped method first, but when i finally started working in a studio I was told not to do it. They said most animators aren't good enough with timing and spacing to actually animate with stepped keys, and they misjudge how many frames they'll need in between those keys. They only allow people who have years of experience with 2d animation to do it.

There's a way to blast in Maya with stepped keys on a playblast so you can still test our your strong poses and timing beats that way though.

If you don't block with stepped keys, how DO you do it...? :confused:

Neon Noodle
Nov 11, 2016

there's nothing wrong here in montana
I see. So you avoid the "12-frame-yawn" problem.

Neon Noodle
Nov 11, 2016

there's nothing wrong here in montana

FunkyAl posted:

does anybody know if they started working on space jam 2 yet, i am ready 2 pack my bags and draw all the daffy duck inbetweens or tastefully erotic lola bunny content they will pay me to

:same:

Neon Noodle
Nov 11, 2016

there's nothing wrong here in montana

bitmap posted:

oh look the first project I can post in like a god drat year

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtkLyw7Wr1s

loving gorgeous, dude. Is that all AE?

Neon Noodle
Nov 11, 2016

there's nothing wrong here in montana
Animating on paper and it feels so good :unsmith:



Hello I am back with a work in progress video thing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNyfSxBn9cw

Neon Noodle fucked around with this message at 14:35 on Aug 1, 2017

Neon Noodle
Nov 11, 2016

there's nothing wrong here in montana
I’d squash the heavier one eeeeeever so slightly during its fall. Leave the lighter one normal. Slight deformations can do weird subliminal things.

Edit: oh yeah! also delete the frame before impact. Give the heavy one a gap.

Neon Noodle fucked around with this message at 13:34 on Dec 1, 2017

Neon Noodle
Nov 11, 2016

there's nothing wrong here in montana
TVPaint is now free for Android. If you go to the website and register, you can download the .apk
They're working on porting it to iOS aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa :supaburn:

Neon Noodle
Nov 11, 2016

there's nothing wrong here in montana
Not sure whether you would get tablet features via emulation, but anything is worth a try? :shrug:

Neon Noodle
Nov 11, 2016

there's nothing wrong here in montana
That third one has really great character and energy, I don't think it looks too traced or too anything.

Neon Noodle
Nov 11, 2016

there's nothing wrong here in montana
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Neon Noodle
Nov 11, 2016

there's nothing wrong here in montana
Subtle :allears:

Neon Noodle
Nov 11, 2016

there's nothing wrong here in montana
been a long time since I rapped at ya, I got a new tweeter

https://twitter.com/_MagicScience_/status/1154410816239755266

Neon Noodle
Nov 11, 2016

there's nothing wrong here in montana
Anyone have any experience working for Pencilmation? Just got an email from their recruiter for freelance inbetweening. Worth it?

edit: extreme lmao, they want to pay $3 per second of animation for inbetweening.

Neon Noodle fucked around with this message at 19:48 on Oct 1, 2019

Neon Noodle
Nov 11, 2016

there's nothing wrong here in montana
workin on some 2.5D stuff
https://i.imgur.com/6aT0FbB.mp4

Neon Noodle
Nov 11, 2016

there's nothing wrong here in montana

FunkyAl posted:

Are these real props, or computer mockups?

All CG

Neon Noodle
Nov 11, 2016

there's nothing wrong here in montana

jarlywarly posted:

Not sure if this is the right place to ask this, but here goes. I'm a macro photographer, a lot of my images are detailed and high res (~3kx3k), however most views of them are on small/lower res screens and mobile devices. I'd like to make them into short animations which consist of a zoom in and then a moderate but very smooth pan to show off the details better.

What software/formats/panning techniques should I be looking into?
Just off the top of my head, you could do this with Blender. There are undoubtedly other free softwares that could do that but certainly Blender is among them.

1. Import the photo as a plane (enable Images as Planes in the add-ons menu)
2. Key frame the camera moves
3. Render animation from the camera

Neon Noodle
Nov 11, 2016

there's nothing wrong here in montana
hi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCDKcmjxPIU

Neon Noodle
Nov 11, 2016

there's nothing wrong here in montana
greetings, I made a short:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fp702yBpZu8

Neon Noodle
Nov 11, 2016

there's nothing wrong here in montana
Thanks a lot for the feedback! I'm working on more things of this nature now, including more hand-drawn oriented stuff. I appreciate your observations there, as this was as much a technical exercise as a finished work.

Neon Noodle
Nov 11, 2016

there's nothing wrong here in montana
Here is a new program

https://youtu.be/F4_Xz8MIkSM

Neon Noodle
Nov 11, 2016

there's nothing wrong here in montana
:popeye: fantastic inspiring stuff

Neon Noodle
Nov 11, 2016

there's nothing wrong here in montana
I made a film

https://vimeo.com/579458197

Neon Noodle
Nov 11, 2016

there's nothing wrong here in montana
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.

Neon Noodle
Nov 11, 2016

there's nothing wrong here in montana
Holy cow, 20 minutes!! Are you still working in CSP?

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Neon Noodle
Nov 11, 2016

there's nothing wrong here in montana
I’ve been working a lot on trying to make 2.5D work for me in Blender. There are a few different ways I’m approaching stuff and I feel like they’re starting to come together:

https://i.imgur.com/9LUkzpx.mp4

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