Here's some TV stuff I did during the last three years. With some small exceptions I did all the animation, inbetweening, cleanup and Flash compositing.
I'm always looking for jobs, of course, but I define jobs as activities helping me pay bills in the here and now, meaning fame, glory, experience and "payment if it ever makes any money" don't constitute adequate compensation for animation services rendered. :D
This is what I've been doing pretty much all throughout 2012.
The Amazing World of Gumabll - Season 2
I hope to continue working on season 3 quite soon.
Long time, no see.
Your work is great, as usual.
Hey Jabber, Where are you? Good to see you are still around. I have been busy with moving (back to the Orlando area) and writing, animation and teaching.
What are you up to these days!
Best,
Larry
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Hey Chris,
I really like your reel. Very Cool! Wish I had a project to put you on. Is FLASH in Europe compatible with FLASH in the U.S.? (shows you how much I know). I was wondering about the NTSC vs. Pal thingy.
Do you have FLIPBOOK?
Thanks dude!
ALWAYS ANIMATED
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I'm still in Germany and have been living and animating in Cologne for, oh, almost four years now. It was a fun time and I'm still doing stuff for one of the studios.
We've been doing Flash for the last two years and I've become quite acceptable at animating in it, if I do say so myself. If you look at my reel, the first half was done as a hand-drawn/Flash combination where I'd pre-animate scenes on paper and do the clean-up in Flash. The scenes after that (with the cowboys) done all digital, meaning I relied more on symbol-based animation. I still like to roughly sketch in bits and pieces that I actually animate and then go over with one of the brush or pencil tools. The scenes at the end, the rooster in the bowl and that other stuff, are actually from a time when we did the business the "old-fashioned way". I really miss doing whole projects on paper because even though it's easy to test and time stuff in Flash, I still feel more comfortable drawing with a pencil than with a stylus on a Cintiq.
To answer your technical questions, I don't think there are any problems using Flash files internationally. It's possible to flexibly assign a scene screen sizes and fps rates so changing a scene to 720x480 at 30 fps shouldn't be any trouble. We usually animate in 1920x1080 pixels at 25 fps since our stuff is mostly shown nationally and in Europe, but some work has been shipped to the Philippines on occasions and we never had compatibility issues with their material. At work we use Flash CS4, I think, but it's possible to save scenes for lower versions.
When I'm doing hand-drawn animation, I usually use Animo or Toki because those are the programs they still have on the work computers. Toki is a pretty bad pencil test program because it doesn't even have camera tools but the files it puts out are very small. We used it to ship ruff scenes to the Philippines for a project. They would then clean them in Flash over there and send back to us for final compositing.
I've heard many good things about FlipBook but the way things are going I doubt the studio will get it. Flash and other paperless systems are taking over.
Anyway, if I can help you in any way I'd be happy to! I'm sure we can find ways in which I can produce material in ways you can work with.