Okay, here is a WIP animation. I'm keeping the forms simple so as to focus on subtlety of character. If this were done by hand on paper, it'd probably look wrong...
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ITH19k1JUQs
My hopes are to get my guy glugging his coffee down, nothing too complex. I'm remaining with the simplistic stick figure formula for my animations at the moment.
Any critique (constructive *evil grin*) is welcome. I want to make others like this, including one of someone mashing potatoes in a saucepan (but with emphasis on the force they mash with, nothing too complex).
Thanks.
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This might sound silly, but...where exactly do I go to start this blog? I don't really know my way around awn.com, just part of the forums, so...any help is appreciated.
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Kaidonni, you should take a loot at this. It is one of Pascal's Boss shorts.
http://www.pascalcampion.com/g4/inspiration/lunchbreak.swf
Got more work done on the animation...
http://youtube.com/watch?v=75P_mEBxedc
Something about the right arm at the end of this one and the way it comes down...maybe I'm too fussy, I dunno...
Comments are welcome once again (and desired too).
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More done...
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Hsznn7DXCkM
All that boiling...and I don't use copy and paste, I use an onion skin outline on another layer as a guide...LOL...
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Near the end now with this.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=g1nzdrmQxik
Comments are much appreciated.
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Thanks for the links.
I'm working on this animation again now I've managed to get another graphics tablet on loan while I wait for the one I've ordered off Amazon. Thanks for the critique of my work. I'll be varying up the spacing between the events, and hopefully I'm starting to get ease in and out right. I suppose I should stop worrying about how much ease in and out there may be in this animation, for the next one I can fix that in (as I remark in my new blog - thanks for that link - I'd be spending forever on the same animation if I tried to improve everything every time someone said something...making it good doesn't hurt at all, but making the next animation better is probably better).
EDIT: Here is the link directly to my blog for the new test, since as YouTube wants to throw a tantrum and crash Mozilla each time I try to upload a new video...) - http://kaidonni.animationblogspot.com/
Heh...funny...realised those files act as downloadables...hmmm, need to sort that out if I can...
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Updated my blog...the newest test (and why I'm not using YouTube like I was before for this) is in the top post at the current time. But if I post again, it won't be the top post...LOL...so the post is named "Productive day on my end, but a bad day nevertheless" just in case...
You'll have to download the file...it's a .avi file, Cinepak codec.
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For a simple test, it is ok. As for the subtlety of your character, there is not enough of it to say anything. Keep add more to the piece by adding more inbetweens. You are going to have to redraw most of your cels to smooth out the action. So how long did it take you to work this piece up?
I should've said this earlier. What's he/she sitting on or are the floating in space? Adding a couch or something will ground your animation a bit more.
Your short looks pretty nice. Now move on to the next short. There isn't much more you can do to this with out adding a to the head or tail of the short.
Aloha,
the Ape
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The pose I got the animation from saw my mother sitting on a sofa at lunchtime, so...heh...in an earlier version, I actually had a pillow in there (I should add it in to this one). The earlier version was going to be by hand, but then I considered the graphics tablet, and found it liberating.
I was thinking of having my character tip his head back even further, but maybe less is more.
Thanks. :)
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I'm adding some more every day, using a graphics tablet (better than using a mouse...far better). Restarted it the Monday just gone when my bro was able to install the tablet. Unfortunately, I can't do any this weekend because I need to return this tablet to the uni...I have ordered my own, but I think it'd be pushing it to take out another on loan for a week or so. It shouldn't take that long for the tablet I ordered to reach me...I hope...*touch wood*
Of course, I'm also fighting laziness to get this work done. Been in somewhat of a lazy rut the past couple of years, so...
EDIT: I smoothed it out some more. On 2's rather than 1's. But I can't upload it to the net because YouTube is misbehaving. Third time uploading the new version, and it's stuck again. And there is NOTHING wrong with the formatting, and the rest of my net connection is fine, so it must be that YouTube is throwing a tantrum today.
Also, some of the smoothing issues seemed to be with the excess 1's...some were far too similar to one another.
I haven't really planned this version out by hand in thumbnail. I create key poses as I move ahead and go straight-ahead to reach those poses, but it's a pose at a time I key rather than all of them. It's more straight-ahead than a combination of that and pose-to-pose. It depends on the situation, I suppose, though...sometimes straight-ahead might be better suited.
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Yeah, you can tilt her head back more. But you have to ask yourself why is she downing her whole cup of coffee? Isn't it hot? Is she drinking it all because she's late for something? If she is, she can get up and walk off screen with a purpose.
If you think of these things when you're animating an action, you will start to see more personality in your shots.
Aloha,
the Ape
...we must all face a choice, between what is right... and what is easy."
http://youtube.com/watch?v=LXTQ2UrpAOo
An updated version of the animation. Need to work on that back/spine line, though, at the end...
Critiques are recommended. Please. And thanks, too. :D
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Thinking about it now, I could have her return to a more relaxed pose after downing the coffee, look at the mug, and shrug as if the coffee was...okay. Or shake her head, as if the coffee wasn't good enough...
This character has a flare for testing drinks, eh?
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Big improvement but you need to work on the ease in and ease out. You should also look into starting a blog here at AWN, it is free.
Looks pretty nice and simple. One main thing is that the timing is very even. It's like everything takes a second to happen or there is a second pause between every action. Vary that up a bit as well as work on the ease in and out, and it'll help a lot.
Aloha,
the Ape
...we must all face a choice, between what is right... and what is easy."