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socksandbuttons · 2 years
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im too busy to animate bUT I WANT TO
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nighttimepixels · 5 years
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Heyhey Night! I have a buncha questions after seeing all your animations and they're just so cool so! I hope this is ok!! Can u animate normally too, or only pixel? Not that that's bad, just wondering! What's ur preferred kinda animation? Do u prefer lipflaps or lipsyncs? What's the hardest part of the animation process?? What's ur favorite?? Any part u don't like? What's a thing people don't see that u put a lotta time into? Do u have a fave animation u've done? Thank u btw for all ur art!!
Oh stars, okay, yeah- I’m happy to answer all these!! I’ll break them up so it’s easier to read X) And awww geez thank you so much for your support, sweet anon! It really makes my day when people say they like anything I’ve made, and stars knows it’s all the more true with the sweet sweet time sink that is animation   (´•̥̥̥\\ヮ\\•̥̥̥` )
I’ll also put this under a cut since it gets a bit long :)
Can u animate normally too, or only pixel?
This one cracks me up a little, don’t worry about it XD I totally can! In fact I enjoy it a lot - and... gods, animation software is a nightmare and a half, to be honest. That’s the biggest hurdle.
I do just straight up love pixel art and the aesthetic I can achieve with it, but I do at times miss ‘normal’ (non pixel?) animation, heh. Especially sound-syncing! I do all my pixel art in Asesprite which imo is the best pixel art program, not to mention made by an actual pixel artist - buuuut it doesn’t have a sound file option. Which makes sense! Er, frankly, most pixel artists wouldn’t... use it to animate like I do? More for games, or for looping gifs? So I can’t complain much, it makes a lot of sense that it’s a low dev priority.
Now, when it comes to other animation programs... I’ve tried a lot. Unfortunately, the ones that are preferable for the feel I like are either way out of budget (stares at TVPaint in the distance) or... well, have too high a learning curve for my single-person workflow, really. (OpenToonz, sigh...) And a lot of the free programs are good for getting a start in animation, but once you get to a certain point you really feel the limitations (whether it’s workflow, sound import, exports, trying to make something more finished than a rough...).
Then... there’s animation programs I just don’t like, and a lot of those are angled towards bone-style animations (nothing wrong with those, they just don’t fit my style? and are too much time investment for a single artist to output more quickly...), or are, well, freakin’ Adobe Animate.
I... gods, I do not like Animate (formerly Flash). And I made a whole 2 minute+ animation in it a couple years ago! (It’s very rough and bad and doesn’t make sense, pfff, not gonna link it XD) It’s... clunky, and vector oriented, and freaking lines don’t go where I want them too, and it tries to predict too much?? It’s hard to put to words, gah. For me, my animation style would be much more... raster oriented. Flow, hand drawn inbetweens, yaddayadda. Animate’s great for... plenty of things, but not for that kind of animation. There are far better animators than I who make it work with freakin’ aplomb though! So really, it’s just my taste, haha.
.... Er, that got long! I’ll cut off more rambling about animation software and tl;dr boil it down to “I love animating period, but turnaround is something I have to keep in mind as a freelancer, as well as budget, and my current focus is pixel animations for a number of reasons.” X)
What's ur preferred kinda animation?
I’m not exactly sure what this one means! Between pixel and non-pixel? Er, they both have their pros and cons, so I couldn’t say! But if I have to break down my current animations into categories, I’d say I have cutscenes, loop environments, and the broad game-like animations...
The first would be something like this animation feat. teasing Edge, the second would be something like this one with skesgo’s Starlan and Cinnamon, and the third is... everything else! From headsprite loops to ‘small’ characters running and so on.
Honestly, they’re all a lot of fun for different reasons! Cutscenes are generally the most challenging, but they give me the chance to push my limits and try and pull off something cool, whether I’m having to conserve frames (to keep the cost of a commission down) or whether I’m going more all out (which is a pricey commission, or a fun personal project, lol).
Loop environments are their own challenge - it may not look like it, but I put a lot of thought into how to make them look as natural as possible! From timing of talking characters, to where to place a blink, to exactly how many frames it’ll take to ‘soften’ a motion (so people aren’t just snapping between major poses) and so on - it takes... a lot of time to animate even simple scenes well, so I do a lot of mental math on how I can keep things affordable when someone approaches me for a commission. And frankly, I totally undercharge;; but I do my best!
Game-like animations are just fun. They range, they’re silly, to intense (I’ve animated fight animations before for game concepts), to indulgent, and beyond! Headsprites are always a delight, especially if I get to push the expression X) and I love tiny things (I mean... I am a pixel artist...) so getting to make lil tiny babs even just walking can be fun - and also, a lot more time consuming than you might thing, esp if you wanna make it smooth, like this lil Frisk I did last month or so:
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Do u prefer lipflaps or lipsyncs?
oTL
B... both??
Okay, lipsyncing basically is very time consuming. AND, I freakin’ love it. I love puzzles, and when it boils down to it, that’s what super fun & expressive lip syncing is (some Ghibli animations are the heckin’ best for this)...
and, I’m a pixel artist, without sound-syncing capabilities in her main art program oTL Yeah, I can export frames and line them up and check but... gods, it’s so time consuming. I’ve tried it out of desperation - but for even five seconds of sound (sayyyyy a lil Vine...) that’s hours upon hours of transferring back and forth just to check.
So even though I love lipsyncs, they’re too time-consuming (and ergo, if I’m being commissioned, often too expensive) to do often! Someday I’d like to get back to doing them more often, but for now, practically I stick to/’prefer’, in the loosest terms, to do lipflaps. For the layman, this is that ‘two frame’ (maybe three) open-closed style of animating mouths- however, I’m working on ways to keep that style, but make it more expressive! It depends on the project - and in commissions, I’ll pretty much always prioritize giving the client a little more body animation than mouth animation, unless it’d really fit what they’ve requested.
What's the hardest part of the animation process??
.... damn, this is a tough one! Sometimes I’d say it’s the initial concept work - but it depends on what I have to work with. Sometimes that parts a breeze - and honestly freeing, bc I can take the time to try and push what I’ll do with it!
Roughing is one of my favorite parts, tbh. It can be tricky, sure, but getting to go from keyframes to in-betweens & smears to adding the flairs of secondary motion (think hair swishing, or coats flaring, etc) is so exciting and satisfying.
From there it’s all refining, and tweaking...
Hm. Honestly, the hardest is probably the initial cleanup and lining. It’s cool to see it come together, but it feels so much slower, and it can drag - and then you find bits that actually don’t translate well from the rough stage, so you have to go back and rework, and oof it can just drag in this phase, heh. Plus, I’m always tempted to add more frames, but it’s not always realistic - I’m a perfectionist, to say the least, so I’m constantly having to leash myself back so I don’t turn a project into a half-a-year undertaking, pff.
What's ur favorite??
Probably gave myself away talking about the roughing stage X) It’s just loose and fun and free! But seeing it all come together is also damn satisfying too, so that’s not to say I don’t like the refining portions either...
Outside of that, I also really like the beginning of the color stage! .... Before having to translate shadows/highlights to each and every frame *shudders*. That gets tedious, but it’s so critical! Anyways, though, I heckin’ love colors. I always have a rough palette in mind at the start of the process, but I go ham and play with it as a little break and a true test when I get to actual slap together a full frame with full color, highlights/shadows included! It’s exciting, like a preview of the finished product, basically :D
Any part u don't like?
Heh, by the time I get to shadows/highlights, I tend to be getting impatient, I suppose. It’s not that I don’t like it - I definitely highly value it, and if it was the only thing I was working on in an animation that’d be different, but as a one-woman team I’m just raring to be done at that point; it’s very nearly the last thing I do, after all, so it’s a struggle to focus. X)
I suppose one that always gets me is more complicated backgrounds. It’s a work in progress, as I’m getting better and finding the fun in them for sure! But I’m still not where I want to be in translating ‘background concept’ to ‘finished background’ - it feels more stiff than my animations, I guess. So it’s a frustrating part... but hey, it’s part of it! And learning to embrace the challenge is a big help.
... I just always have to make sure I have a big cup of coffee and a good jam playlist going when I sit down to do ‘em, in the meantime.(=▿= ||||)
What's a thing people don't see that u put a lotta time into?
Definitely the coloring. This goes for both backgrounds and the animated characters themselves. It’s... never as simple as it looks? It’s time consuming, and while some parts of frames can be copy-pasted, I also put subtle work into the animations that mean that some pixels are off so it ends up being marginally faster to just recolor, but then there’s shadows, and working in pixels means that if I miss one then there’s a flickering pixel mid-animation, and sometimes there’s an unconnected line and then you bucket fill the whole damn thing, and gods know I’ve got colored lines so I have to be exacting with keeping the same ratios highlighted vs darker in shifting frames...
*deep breath*
... Yeah, basically the coloring is super time consuming. And balancing bg coloring with animated elements in the image itself is a whole extra challenge on top of that. For 99% of my animations, I can damn near guarantee I’ve spent at least twice as much time coloring it as I have animating it.
Do u have a fave animation u've done?
*looks at my goblin hoard of animations in horror like I’ve been asked to choose a favorite child*
... Stars above, I can’t choose! I love them all, and at this point a good portion of them are commissions- it wouldn’t feel right to choose!
*...carefully covers the hoard’s metaphorical ears*
... also, that said, I can admit a soft spot for any of them that involve humor. I tend to get to do extremely expressive faces and action there, even if I have to ration the frames, so it turns out really fun X)
And though rough and I’ve definitely done stuff I’m more proud of, I still crack up at this one I did a while back of the nonsense ‘ass’ joke between Red & Stretch... their faces were too much fun XD I’ve gotten waybetter since then though, Big Oof, I see so many things I can fix; might go back and redo it someday.
Honestly, though, I just freakin’ love animating! They all have their ups and downs andI always put a lot of love into them and find a way to have fun with it and try to push any emotion/theme (when applicable). I like to think it shows, but idk, that’s something I have to leave up to you guys X)
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hitellshowbutbetter · 5 years
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websites:
Animation World Network
Animation Backgrounds
Animation Magazine
Animation & CGI
Animator Island
Anime News Network
Cartoon Brew
Character Design References
On Animation
Reference! Reference! (free database for animation)
11 Second Club (monthly character animation competition)
tumblr blogs:
animationart
animationforce
animationtidbits
aspiretoanimate
calartscharacteranimation
disney-moments-sketches (Allen Ostergar’s blog, animator at Walt Disney)
drawingforsuckas
fuckyeahconceptart
storyboardresources
theanimationarchive
theartofanimation
wannabeanimator
resources/tips:
Animation schools: 1 / 2 (Top 50 USA) / 3 (Top 100 international)
Which animation school is right for you? (Ringling vs. CalArts)
Don’t want to/ can’t afford art school? you’ve got other options.
Animation Mentor: The online animation school
Art school exercises!!
51 Great Animation exercises
20 things you can expect as a traditional (2D) animation student that they never tell you
A Survivor’s Guide to Life Inside an Animation Studio
Animation basics: The art of timing and spacing
Animation Notes From Ollie Johnston
Animated chart of the basic principles of animation
10 Second tip: Always Anticipate
book: Animation: Learn How to Draw Animated Cartoons by Preston Blair
book: A System for Planning and Timing Animation by Glen Keane
book: Timing for animation by Harold Whitaker and John Halas
book: Gesture Drawing for animation by Walt Stanchfield
Basic 3D Animation Terminology
Digital pencil test!!
Keys to Emotion in Animation
Lessons from Disney’s Zootopia
Model Sheets central
The importance of Acting in Animation by Segio Pablos
Printable exposure/dope sheet
Phoneme Chart
Recommended reading for animation students and enthusiasts
The 5 Types of Animation
The Know-How of Cartooning
The Unofficial Truth about The Animation Industry
Why Disney Sends Its Animators To Life Drawing Classes
Walk/Run Cycles reference
What is Pixar looking for in Animators? (scroll down)
Portfolio Advice for The Disney Animation Internship
What is Rigging?
3D Rigging Terminology
3D Modeling Terminology
tutorials:
Animation for Beginners: Where do I start
Animation Physics (Video tutorials on physics for animation artists)
Animation tutorial part. 1 AKA “the secret of animation”
Appealing Poses in Animation
Background & Movement in TV
Blinking tips
Breakdown tutorial (middle frame between to keys)
Drawing & Composition for visual storytelling
Drawing for Animation
Drawing a Likeness
Animation fundamentals + tutorials
Filmmaking: Composition and Framing
Getting Shape Change
How to animate using photoshop
How to animate Characters in Perspective
How to Animate Head Turns
How to Draw Gesture
OpeenToonz tutorials masterpost
Overlapping Action and Drag
Portfolio tips / Making A Successful Portfolio
Lyp Sync tutorial
Line of action
Basics of good cartooning 1-12 by Sherm Cohen
Squash & Stretch tutorial
Squash and Stretch 2
Storyboarding tutorials by Sherm Cohen
The Illusion of Life: 12 Principles of Animation
Tilt, Flow & Rhythm
Underlying Structure When Animating Expressions
TVPaint tutorial: Uploading and Coloring Scanned Animation
supplies (traditional animation):
10 Essential Art Supplies for the Traditional Animator
How to Use a Light Table for Animation
Making a Simple Animation Lightbox
Peg bars, Animation Disk & Desk
softwares:
free
Blender (3D creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline: modeling, rigging, animation,etc)
Emofuri (animate using .psd files)
Google Sketchup (
Live2D ( animation/drawing software
OpenToonz (Studio Ghibli’s open source animation software)
Pencil2D (create traditional hand-drawn animation (cartoon) using both bitmap and vector graphics)
Renderman (Pixar’s free 3D rendering software)
Sculptris (Free digital sculpting tool by the makers of Zbrush
SculptGL (Online modelling program)
Synfig (2d animation using a vector and bitmap artwork)
paid
Zbrush (digital sculpting sw by Pixologic)
Mudbox (digital sculpting sw by Autodesk)
Cinema 4D (digital sculpting sw by Maxon)
TVPaint (2d animation)
animation studios:
Aardman (Bristol, UK)
Blue Sky Studios (Greenwich, USA)
Dreamworks (Glendale, USA)
Fox Animation (USA)
Imagination Studios/CN (Burbank, USA)
Industrial Light & Magic (San Francisco, USA)
Laika (Hillsboro, USA)
Luma Pictures (USA / Melbourne, Australia)
Nickelodeon Animation (Burbank, USA)
Pixar (Emeryville, CA)
Rise FX (Berlin, Germany)
Studio Ghibli (Tokyo, Japan)
Sony Picture Imageworks (Vancouver, Canada)
Sony Pictures Animation (Culver City, CA)
Walt Disney Animation (Burbank, CA)
Weta Digital (Wellington, New Zealand)
inspiration: worth watching short films
Coda by and maps and plans
Contre Temps by the Contre Temps Team
Duet by Glen Keane
DOG ENVY by Olivia Huynh
Fallin Floyd by  il Luster
French Roast
Gravity by Ailin Liu
In Between by Gobelins
Jinxy Jenkins and Lucky Lou by Michael Bidinger and Michelle Kwon
My Big Brother by Jason Rayner
Night Light by Qing Han
Nephtali by Glen Keane
Nocturne by Kari Casady
Historia de un Oso by Gabriel Osorio
Home Sweet Home  by home sweet home the film
One Bright Dot by  Clément Morin
Stickboy by Giant Ant
SOAR by Alyce Tzue
Tsunami by The Animation Workshop
Thought of You by Ryan Woodward
Vagabond by  The Animation Workshop
5 Gobelins Shorts That Pay Tribute To Women Animation Pioneers
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nerdgasrnz · 7 years
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Hi, I've noticed you do a fair bit of animating(and it's all really good, I kinda look up to you as an artist.) and would you recommend any animating software to a amateur animator(preferably free I can't really spend money on computer stuff.) ?
@so-owlyoudoing sure!
FireAlpaca is a nice start for learning to do the “traditional” method of frame-by-frame animation, and it’s free!
Before I knew about FireAlpaca, there was also GIMP, but I wouldn’t recommend that as much unless you’re already well acquainted with that program. I find its animation and previewing features to be far more clunky and aggravating @_@
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socksandbuttons · 4 months
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I’m a new digital artist do you have any tips for starting?
ALRIGHT SO. it took some days to answer this sorry. Do everything. Like just go FOR it. In how u wanna draw. Not everyone has like... a similar way to go about digital drawing. (Some people paint, I do mostly cartoonish and cel...shading??) So whatever feels best for you. Sometimes you learn a new thing its okay to evolve in your art thats normal! Style is... a hard consistency bruh. Stabilization... is your friend if you really want a nice smooth line. (I use it sometimes if something not going great, esp if you want to really follow that sketch!) Lining IS an option. Dont be held back by lining. You can use the sketch, just duplicate the layer and erase some of those lines and boom! lineart. You can adjust as necessary. LAYERS ARE YOUR FRIEND. I draw on a computer so layers are quite unlimited. I know apps that restrain you to few tho which is Dumb but like i guess its a mobile art program. But dont be afraid to use them. Or one. You can get away with one layer, thats how i started before i learned about layers. (Art programs came a long way since then.) SAVE. FREQUENTLY. Also please PLEASE back that up somewhere that ISNT the app itself. If you lose the app or the login... good bye to all that. I have the luxury of usbs and an external hard drive. Just find a way to back that up. Art is a lot of memory and storage just expect that. And yes keep them because then you have something to look back on and go 'dang. ive learned'
The clipping layer is also very useful. u want your lines colored but theyre a different color?? You dont have to redraw that! You can clip a layer over it and color over the lines and boom. Colored lines. Same with coloring layers too btw. Very useful art thing to use. yes even in painting. Also this does help once a while but you dont always have to draw on white, u can change the bg color to something different (depends on the program u can default it to something else so u dont have like.. open the previous file to get the color again.) Like i will change it to greys blues or something lighter cause it turns out. things look very different on different colors. (color theory hello... i cannot teach u that.) There is always a free option somewhere. Do not worry. Um thats basically what i got for ya. Some programs have different perks for you that others wont tho. Such as csp and its delightful vector layers (Sai has this too but i CANT change the pen type. vs csp where u can use any pen. BUT CSP DOESNT HAVE MY WATERCOLOR BRUSH... that i adore.) Animating is a different proceedure. but What it is that i used for a while UHM... Pencil2d. Then i moved to opentoonz. (they are... very different... but opentoonz does infact make some things easier)
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