#animation design

[jessdrawz]

Here's the fully colored bg/visdev piece I posted a wip of earlier! I wanted to extrapolate a bit on the coffee co-op idea. Super bonus points if you can guess which Pittsburgh based cafe this is based off of 👀💎🇵🇱

#artists on tumblr #illustration #visdev #concept art #background design #background painting #bg art #animation design #animation #digital art #beep

[victoranimation]

Work in progress on SPACE NOVAS! Starring Captain Nova, Stellarella Starbo, hunky space bandits, laser battles, and loads of hand animation! Tune into my instagram for more cryptic-yet-juicy details: victorgogogo

#animation #cartoon #space #2d animation #drawing #scifi #anime #retro #traditional animation #Space Novas #spaceship design #design #character design #animation design #character animation #gifset

[namoogly]

My animation friendly Cynder design

#cynder #the legend of spyro #animation #animation design #spyro the dragon #spyro #tlos

[seahagart]

cursed werebear warrior woman saves local prince and now he has a crush on her. She lives in a cave in a mountain and is very happily cursed, no plans on fixing that

#my art #character design #beauty and the beast #werebear #monster girl #monster lover #werewolf #large woman #plus size romance #plus size character #animation design #prince x knight #knight #prince #fairytale #fairytale romance #fairy tale illustration #fairy tale characters #gnc woman #girl boss #male wife #illustration #character illustration

[bloodvisions-art]

Dragon :3 it’s been a decade since I drew a dragon but I had to go back to my childhood roots

#dragon art #dragon #fantasy art #fantasy dragon #whimsical #whimsical art #cute #colorful art #illustration art #book illustration #animation design #dragon design #dragons #illustration #my art #artists on tumblr #drawing #queer artist #digital painting #cartoon

[chrisbattleart]

Look for the bear necessities.

#middlemost post #Nickeldodeon #Nickelodeon Animation #nicktoons #Character Design #animation design

[dragonssparkle]

Some character designs for my degree project film Egg Thief. I tried to keep the designs relatively accurate while taking some creative liberties for the sake of animation and drawing these guys a million times. We've got oviraptor, a baby oviraptor, and velociraptor (as well as a little Saichangurvel, a small lizard which would have existed in roughly around the same time and area)

#paleoart #dinosaurs #oviraptor #velociraptor #dinosaur art #character designs #character design #animation design #sparkle art #character turnaround #character refs #animation refs

[scrambler]

Jean Zoudi, character designs for The Witness, from season one of Love, Death, and Robots.

#love death and robots #the witness #Jean Zoudi #science #science fiction #animation design

[zaktodd]

Air Guitar ⚡️🎸

#character art #character design #digital illustration #digital painting #art #illustration #comic art #character concept #concept art #visual development #visdev #animation design #animation art #character artist #artist

[acidcoffee]

I saw a few eps of My Adventures With Superman, and I can see why so many people like it, charming characterization and fun story, will keep on watching. But like I have already said to friends that really don't deserve my annoying ranting: It looks kind of flat.

I am serious! Not trying to hate on it!

Look, is not the style of drawing, it is the composition of the scenes and posing.

Check it out, 3/4 view are usually the best views to convey the volume of semi-realistic designs, except when they are the same exact angles over and over, as your brain will quickly pick this up and recognize it as flat. So ideally a you get healthy amount of variations of the 3/4 angle, with some profiles and front views to break the visual rhythm.

In My Adventures With Superman however, you see profiles and front views pretty often, especially during conversations, and with such precision that sometimes it almost seems copied from the model sheets. The issue is not that they are on model and the show is consistent, but that poses look too similar across different scenes.

If the characters had larger ranges of expressions this wouldn't be noticeable. But wide expressions are few and relatively contained.

Even if these are the constraints of the look, this promotional image shows the possibility expressiveness and dynamism with these exact designs.

Now, I am no master in composition myself, but if we pay attention to most conversations we'll see a pretty even pattern of straight medium and close up shots back and forth, where the camera is often at the same height. (I've also noticed a few times some issues with eye direction, but I am probably being fastidious about it.)

This kind of shot, for example, seems to be in almost every conversation, coming back to it pretty often during the same sequence:

In any case, without the variation on the angles of the characters or the composition of the scenes, shots and sequences just tend to lack visual depth.

If we looked towards Batman: The Animated Series we'd see how different compositions, going from more extreme close ups to distant shots, with different camera angles, make the scenes feel rich and visually deeper in spite of the relative simplicity of the character and background design.

The comparison may feel unfair, since the design is wildly different, but we could easily go to Avatar & Korra for more similar shows and the comparison still fits.

And before you bring it up, no, this is not a show for kids and even if it were, I don't find that dismissing children media helps anyone. Worth noting I am explicitly talking about conversations scenes because composition obviously changes during action sequences. The show however has a lot of conversations scenes like this, which is why I even noticed.

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I do not think this is necessarily a budget issue. Composition is something that happens before animation is done, and it often requires more "decision making" that work hours to achieve. In some cases, like adding more angles that obscure mouths or wider further shots, it could potentially reduce the work of animators and artists through the production.

No, I think at some point between Storyboarding & layout the compositions and posing flattened, and design or direction didn't address or notice it. Why do I think this?

Well, someone posed Clark doing a "face palm" kind of pose with his fingers like this:

WHO PUTS THEIR FINGERS ON THE LENSES. BOY WHAT ARE YOU DOING?

#my adventures with superman #animation #critique #Superman #maws #storyboarding #animation design #batman the animated series #not hating #composition

[jessdrawz]

some efx design work from my time on velma at WB

#effects design #efx #animation efx #animaton effects #artists on tumblr #fire design #animation design #animation #cartoons #digital art #concept art #idk what else to tag #fart

[erikdmartin]

few more predesigns for #solaropposites Season 2

#solar opposites #artist on tumblr #instaart #animation backgrounds #animation design #hulu

[seahagart]

Dopzar came to date earth girls but for some reason his dates keep canceling? weird. He's just a slimy guy looking for love! He even has his own spaceship and he brought flowers!

#alien #alien oc #tentacle #monster #monster boyfriend #character design #animation design #monster romance #alien romance #alien x human #my art #seahagart #personal art #illustration

[equtr]

character design practice :) i am ill so i got super lazy with the details and her hands and such. but i had lots of fun. and i realized how bad i am at painting for the nth time. heheh

#my art #character design #animation design

[hannahvarelaillustration]

One last lasso tool experiment. Chill red panda.

#illustration #animal #digital #painting #art #kidlitart #kidlit #characterdesign #visdev #visualdevelopment #redpanda #animaldesign #animation #animation design

[chrisbattleart]

Design for our crew exclusive Middlemost Post statue I posted late last year.  It took a lot of back & forth w/MMP creator @johntrabbic to realize a 3D version of our very 2D characters. Then I had to keep it secret for over a year while it was being made 😉

#middlemost post #Nickeldodeon #Nickelodeon Animation #nicktoons #animation design #Character Design