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post != edit I don't know how I hosed that up. curse of flubber fucked around with this message at 01:52 on Jan 18, 2010 |
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Could I get some feedback on this? http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/507622 I made this in a rush, in about a month, taking about 8 hours a day to do it. Also please completely ignore the story, it will make no sense whatsoever. I want to get to the level where I can do short animations for quick money for people and poo poo. I'm only 17 so I have a hell of way to go but any help would be appreciated. I'm doing part 2 now which will make a lot more sense and hopefully be funny and interesting. Gonna try and put a whole bunch of 3D poo poo in there too. If anyone's interested, here is some documents I'm using to help me with part 2. It's super poo poo because I have to put a whole bunch of useless crap in there for my extended project. http://www.zshare.net/download/7134109142bb281d/ I'd appreciate criticism of the story since I am a terrible writer. The story is in terrible note form as well.
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Jan 18, 2010 01:09
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hello fence posted:aw rats Develop a ctrl+s twitch. This advice will save you days of work. As for exporting, Flash is fine with that, usually, but it doesn't animate movie clips. Basically, what you see when you preview the animation with enter is what you'll export. So either use lots of graphics instead of movieclips or export it as a SWF and get a SWF to video converter.
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Jan 18, 2010 22:11
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Hackuma posted:It does, you just have to turn them into graphic symbols and change the drop down box on the properties screen to loop (or play X times). But then they're not movie clips anymore, and are graphics, like I said.
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Jan 19, 2010 00:02
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Just finished an animation project for my Foundation in Art and Design course, based on a true story. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA5hA-BuLaI My first attempt at hand drawn animation. Been so used to using only a tablet and Flash since I was like 11 or so. It was fun, if incredibly time and soul consuming. Took me about a month or two. Also it completely hosed over my sleeping pattern. It's half six in the morning here, and I woke up at around 8PM yesterday. I have to go to Uni at half nine as well.
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Feb 17, 2011 07:34
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There's always keepvid. It mould accomplish the same thing except you don't pay anything.
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Apr 2, 2012 03:51
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1tUL0JA43I Everything's unfinished and I don't really want criticism for it just yet, but anything helpful will be appreciated. Mainly I'm just posting this in an effort to revive this thread.
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Apr 12, 2012 04:20
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Aleque posted:I am currently using Flash CS4 for animation and I seem to have everything I need: hotkeys all optimized, extensions installed, workspace organized. Now that Flash CS6 is out, is it worth considering? I don't use the coding side of the Flash - that's why I want to know if CS6 offers any features that animators particularly can benefit from. It looks much cooler. Besides that, it has support for HTML5 which is useful for web stuff, especially with iThings now. There's been more emphasis on 3D stuff, which I never use with Flash, but maybe it could be useful one day? It generates sprite sheets, which seems like an incredibly easy thing to add, but it could save you a bit of time if you had to do that manually. I just found out that in CS5 they introduced a thing which means you can resize your entire animation without having to change your canvas then individually resize everything.
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Jul 26, 2012 14:18
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Aleque posted:Can you please give me an example how it works? I use alot of nesting: symbols within symbols, etc. (on different layers). You should get a virtual AS camera or something. Adam Phillips made them popular, so you know they're good. I have no idea how to do the scale thing, I just read it from a list of new features in CS5 from the adobe website.
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Jul 26, 2012 21:32
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Aleque posted:Can you please elaborate? I want to know all about it http://weblog.motion-graphics.org/archives/2008/04/as3_camera.html#more http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript/2004/08/17/flashhacks.html?page=2 Basically you tween it like a normal object, and it will display everything in the frame, even with shearing or tinting or what-have-you. I don't think blur effects or anything work in it, it's rather old. It'll save you a bunch of time if you want any panning or other camera tricks in your Flash. The only problem is if you want a video, rather than a swf, it's impossible to export in Flash. You'd have to record the swf in Flashants thing or camtasia or something. There isn't actually that much support out there for making Flash into professional animation tool, but there's just enough that we can make do.
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Jul 27, 2012 13:12
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korusan posted:My friend and I made an exercise in reusing models from an older cartoon. Does our newest short look too cheap? Yes. No offense, but the level you're at now, you should get all the practice you need in drawing, it really lets you be more creative with your animation anyway. Try a few different camera angles.
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Sep 19, 2012 23:06
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Wheany posted:I have some questions as a non-animator: How long does it take to render the final frames in a modern "tv quality" 3d animation? I'd imagine that the time scales pretty linearly with the resolution, so a full hd frame would take about 5 times as long as a dvd-resolution frame, but adding fancier lighting and physics and such would probably slow the thing down more. Varies horribly depending on what equipment you have, the content, the lights, etc... There is no one answer for this, everyone does it differently.
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Oct 15, 2012 20:39
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Could I have some constructive criticism on my portfolio? http://kodie.me/ I've spent a few months on it and I'm quite happy with where it's at right now, but please feel free to rip right in to it and tell me if there's anything I could do to improve on it.
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Nov 16, 2012 01:43
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That's weird. Have you got mute on?
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Nov 16, 2012 12:04
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Crossposting this from the CGI thread because this thread gets like no people posting in it and I'm not sure where to post this anyways. Just finished off my first, big, group project. Lots of heartbreak and effort was involved. ROCKS.  I did all the animation past 27 seconds, plus all the previs stuff, bit of preproduction, bits and bobs. The director didn't really like deviating much from his ideas. Really I should've done all the animation, but I've been depressed recently because of reasons and I needed to reduce as much stress as possible.
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Feb 21, 2013 02:37
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Finally have a new showreel. Had to pad it a bit with old work, but I think it's looking good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIiZZwLk88I I am going to create a temporary portfolio site tomorrow. Just a simple div design so I can apply for internships. When I finish this year of my course, I'll be able to do it justice.
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Mar 5, 2013 02:18
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I'm trying to get out of Flash animation because it is terrible and Adobe is terrible and I hate it it is bad. What are the benefits and weaknesses between ToonBoom Harmony and TV Paint?
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Jun 8, 2013 14:08
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neonnoodle posted:Toon Boom (whether Harmony or the Animate software) is more similar to Flash than TVP is. TB is designed with Flash users in mind, so a lot of the keyboard shortcuts are the same, the look of the timeline is similar, and the software is vector based. There is also support for symbol-like swapping and drawing reuse in Toon Boom, although there is not as deep a symbol hierarchy as you have in Flash. Flash animation at this point has kind of become its own medium with its own quirks and best practices. Toon Boom builds on the traditions which started in Flash, and improves upon them, but it's still a flavor of the same basic system as Flash. If you first learned animation by learning Flash animation, then Toon Boom is probably for you. Also, if you're a 3D native and you understand node-based compositing, there's some of that stuff in TB also. Thank you; this is hugely helpful. I think Toon Boom would probably be easiest for me to learn, coming from a heavy Flash background and familiar with the node system, but I really want to branch out and create entirely different looking work to what I'm used to. I think I'll end up giving TVP a shot. Quest For Glory II posted:I'm not sure if it's still the case but Toon Boom is usually super friendly about letting people try out their software. Like they have special evaluation versions of Toon Boom that don't expire but put a watermark on your video so you're free to learn the software without the financial investment. It is, according to Adam Phillips. Apparently, they are super helpful if you contact them directly, they'll pretty much tailor a package to your project.
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Jun 9, 2013 12:44
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Dodgeball posted:Flash animators: help me out. That sounds like some low level vector rounding error loving up poo poo, which there isn't much you can do about besides keep loving with poo poo until it works. More examples or the FLA/SWF file or something would be helpful.
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Jan 4, 2014 01:53
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This is probably super finicky thing to complain about, but do we really have to call everything in animation an, 'illusion'? In your second example, the ball has momentum, it's moving between frames more or less over time, that is the definition of momentum, if that's an illusion, then so is a film of a real ball doing the same thing. Again, super nit-picky, but it just nags at me a bit.
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Jan 4, 2014 22:09
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What are the differences and benefits of TVPaint and ToonBoom? In the summer I really want to get back into 2D animation, but I want to leave Flash far, far behind. I know ToonBoom is apparently great for Flash veterans, but I'm absolutely fine with learning new skills if TVPaint is good.
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Mar 23, 2014 12:54
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TVPaint is looking pretty cool. Vectors seem to gently caress up all the time, and 3D tracking doesn't seem that important. I feel like it would be simpler to do any 3D effects in Maya and all the 2D animation in ToonBoom. I'm leaning more towards TVP right now, since I want to learn something completely new and experiment with new techniques and that, TVPaint just seems like what Flash should be by now if Adobe targeted Flash more for animators. Plus, I really don't like all that puppet style of animation. It looks really ugly to me, it even almost put me off Archer, but Archer is just so good in all the other ways.
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Mar 23, 2014 18:31
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I'm thinking of learning either Toon Boom or TV Paint, but I'm not sure which one. I've been using Flash to animate since I was 11, and it's safe to say I'm over that awful stage of my life now. I'm looking to create more natural 2D FBF stuff, so I'm thinking of TVP, but the interface looks like poo poo, whereas Toon Boom seems to have straight up more features. I'm a fan of Manga Studio's painting engine, but I'm also a heavy Maya rigger/animator/modeller, NukeX person, so I'd be totally comfortable learning TB's node based stuff. Money is of no concern, I just want to see if I can find the best program for me.
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Mar 8, 2015 19:31
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The new TVP actually looks pretty decent now. Y'all convinced me. It'll be nice to get away from vectors too, though I assume Toon Boom would have handled vectors better than I'm used to with Flash randomly destroying your work if you make one wrong move.
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Mar 12, 2015 17:43
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I tried out TVPaint, it's pretty cool. I haven't really done any 2D animation in years, and I still don't really have the time to. When he gets up, I was trying to do a thing where he was being lifted up by his head, but kinda hosed up with the legs and the everything else. Nice little bit of fun though. Right now I'm working on a cartoon Baman rig that's been killing me for the past year, and there was actually a week period where I was seriously afraid of dying from exhaustion from staying up 7 days without sleep.
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Apr 23, 2015 00:44
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Ccs posted:What are you using to rig? Is it a toon boom rig or 3D in Maya? Cause there are a ton of modular auto-rigging solutions to make rigging super fast and easy these days. I'm well aware of them, but this is a very specialist fake 2D thing using mocap and crazy stuff. It was for my Innovations project so yeah. Don't do it, by the end I was hallucinating nurbs controls on the maya background, I had to concentrate to find the real ones. My wrists felt like they were tightening and I kept having to wear eyepatches because of the strain on them. Sucked balls man. The worse times was when I kept missing my own deadlines for posting the stuff to Uni, after I missed my Royal Mail window I wrote a big soppy facebook post on my uni group page begging for someone to hand in my work on a USB, got a few offers which was great. bitmap posted:Don't do it, Megaspel. You're a young man. Too late, already did it, don't want to do it again. If I didn't I would have failed my final year of uni and had to have spent thousands of pounds and a year of my life to redo it. Looking back on my last year, probably would've been better for me.
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Apr 26, 2015 01:49
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Keith Stack posted:I like to make animations! Those are wicked. In your video, with the mouths, are they frame-by-frame animation, or did you do any sort of shape tweening with them? It looks like something that could be done with either and a bunch of layers. Is it Flash or another program?
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Aug 26, 2015 15:49
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Sorta animation related. I've been working on and off on this rig for the past year or so, and I've finally finished with the rig breakdown. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EO3uRNjEWfM My next step is to tear down my website and build it back up again before my ad goes out in a couple days. Then I'll try and get an updated showreel cut together not too long after.
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Aug 27, 2015 05:52
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Communist Toast posted:I like character animation the most, it's really rewarding to be able to bring life to my drawings. I am only experienced with 2d though. I want to make my own cartoons, I've also thought about getting involved in making games in a small team. Thing is I also want a job, I want to be able to market myself as capable for a wide variety of jobs related to animation. I just want to cover all my bases. Do you have links to your existing work? My advice would change depending on where you're at currently.
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Aug 27, 2015 17:49
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Communist Toast posted:I don't have much at the moment. I just graduated with an associates in fine arts from a community college and decided to pursue my longtime hobby of animation. I'm currently trying to do a weekly challenge for myself to build up a portfolio and practice. Here's what I've been working on since yesterday: Looks great, it'd be cool to see it when it's done. Forget about illustrator, that's really only for graphic design I reckon. You don't really need more than a rudimentary knowledge of After Effects, but it definitely is rather helpful for finishing touches if you know what you do with it. From there it gets a bit more complicated, because it changes depending on your specialization. I'm a mostly 3D dude, I use Nuke, Maya and After Effects mostly. Nuke is great if you know exactly what's going on, and what stuff you need to render out from Maya and what to do with it, you probably don't have to worry too much about Nuke though, but it couldn't hurt to just learn what you can do with it, to see if you're interested in taking it further. Maya/Max is probably pretty similar, I think it's just down to preference between the two, but different companies prefer different packages when you go work for them. I think Maya is better for animation in general, but I haven't a clue how to use 3DS Max, so I could be completely mistaken. For 2D animation I would choose between Toonboom and TVpaint. Toonboom is a bit more like Flash, except not poo poo and terrible in every way. It's based on vectors and has lots of room for rigging and tweening and all of that sorta stuff if you're interested. TVPaint seems more simple, raster based, but it doesn't feel like it's had quite as much development time as Toonboom appears to have had. I don't have much experience in either, I've been out of practice with 2D animation for a while, and I need to get back into it at some point. If you're used to Flash, you're probably best upgrading to Toonboom. Whatever you do, don't stick with Flash, it's dying, Adobe's not going to be improving it any more, not that they ever did, but Flash is so bad in so many ways, and after a week of learning Toon Boom or whatever, you'll be glad you've left it in the dirt. Plus I doubt many major animation studios use Flash any more, if you want to work at a studio.
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Aug 28, 2015 01:53
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Communist Toast posted:Thanks for all the advice man! Yeah, Zbrush is great for sculpting, but it takes a lot of time and practice to learn all the buttons. I personally don't think the UI is fantastic or intuitive, but it seems to have the best engine, and I know a lot of sculptors who have many more hours put in than me, love it. There's definitely a massive learning curve for it at the beginning, but well worth the time. The stuff you sculpt in Zbrush isn't going to be usable in animation until you retopologize it, like you said, you can do this inside of Zbrush, but I still haven't figured out how, something to do with the retopo gun, I'm sure there's plenty of tutorials. Since I'm lazy, I tend to just import the mesh into Maya, set it as a live object so that when I move vertices, it snaps onto the object. From their I just create a new mesh and edge model it around the zbrush mesh. The retopo gun method is probably quicker and better, so it's probably best to figure that out than to go through my lazy yet probably less-efficient method. But yeah, good topology is 100% necessary for not poo poo animation. If you have bad topology, that's going to mess up the deformation super bad and make everything look like garbage. General rules of thumbs I follow, try to stick to quads as much as possible, sometimes I break this rule and hide a triangle up the nose or something, and always be aware of your loops. A loop is like a line of quads basically, you have a loop around the eyes, circles really, around the mouth, then like around the bridge of the nose but also upper lips. Crazy stuff, but it can be fun if you like solving puzzles, just look at good examples of topology for a decent idea of what you want to end up with. curse of flubber fucked around with this message at 15:31 on Aug 28, 2015 |
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Aug 28, 2015 15:29
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Macksy posted:What's a good program for doing simple hand drawn animations? Like I want to just be able to draw a bunch of frames of figures and test how it animates then ink them in mangastudio or photoshop. What are you using it for? Because if it's just for practice then there are loads of free stuff. There's this one person on tumblr who uses some DS app to make some pretty nifty stuff.
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Sep 5, 2015 23:03
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SRM posted:Flipnote, but I'm not sure you can get it anymore. Pffft. DS is easy enough to get a flash cart or something.
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Sep 6, 2015 02:55
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Started 2D animating for the first time in years. I haven't done a proper 2D project in about 4 years, it's really weird coming back to it after going through an animation course where I animated nothing 2D. https://twitter.com/bizarspel/status/718552683494449153 bitmap posted:negatory. The license is in perpetuity. Is it not possible to buy a cheap bamboo or intuos or something, a cheap laptop, then sell them when you get your stuff back? curse of flubber fucked around with this message at 23:35 on Apr 9, 2016 |
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Apr 9, 2016 23:30
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I will never get an animation job. https://twitter.com/bizarspel/status/733369424498065409 Beep boop I am a bad animator. HelloWinter posted:Hello again!! I decided to take the challenge of starting and completing an animation within a day. This is what came up. Oh hey, it's you from twitter. Cool stuff.
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May 19, 2016 19:51
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Ccs posted:I like the McElroy reference. bitmap posted:Nice wand flourish This was like my first proper 2D animation thing in something like 4 or 5 years or something, you can see at the beginning how terrible it is compared to the end. I think in the future I need to spend more time redoing roughs if I'm not happy with them rather than just rushing forward.
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bitmap posted:did thing! got job! Congrats! I'm waiting on a company in Amsterdam to look at my animation test for a job at this very moment, hoping to hear the same good news. Anybody know what a reasonable salary would be as a Junior Animator in Amsterdam would be? curse of flubber fucked around with this message at 17:26 on May 27, 2016 |
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May 27, 2016 14:48
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