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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Thu May 21, 2020 11:03 pm

I've tried animating in a variety of different ways, from Flash to ToonBoom to even on paper, but I just could never get a hang of animating and resisted giving it a go again for a long time.

I decided to pick it up again because a friend told me about a software he uses, Krita. This time I'm really have a blast animating. It helps that Krita is very easy to use compared to the other software (it also doesn't really crash easily, like Flash).

This is the first animation I did with it. This is from a scene I storyboarded. I thought it'd look fun animated, so I did it first:

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Re: Doing animation

Post by Mr. Big (?) » Thu May 21, 2020 11:04 pm

Next is Felicia. Her hair always covers one of her eyes, but which side depends on what angle she's facing, so I wanted to see how I can achieve that with animating her head turn.


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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Thu May 21, 2020 11:05 pm

Animated Chiro flying. Getting the wing flaps right took some challenge, but some animator friends gave me tips that worked out.


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Re: Doing animation

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Cleaned up that Chiro animation

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Re: Doing animation

Post by Mechanical Ape (?) » Fri May 22, 2020 12:20 pm

These look smooth and it’s super cool watching you take your work to a new level. :awesomedash:

Now add whipcracks and you’re set
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Re: Doing animation

Post by Mr. Big (?) » Fri May 22, 2020 3:03 pm

Thanks!

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Re: Doing animation

Post by EvilMorty (?) » Fri May 22, 2020 8:46 pm

Your animation looks really nice, by the way, I will be following you.
Hi, I made a new character here: Frost Shard (you could do me a favor by checking her out)

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Re: Doing animation

Post by Mr. Big (?) » Sat May 23, 2020 2:28 am

Aw thanks!

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Re: Doing animation

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stepping on the beach :party:

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Re: Doing animation

Post by Adiwan (?) » Sat May 23, 2020 9:12 am

Whenever I see the thread title I read it like "Doing" was pronounced similar like "Boing", just with a D instead of a B.
Having "Animation" next to it makes me think of the springy, jumpy sound effect often heard in cartoons.
"The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss." - Douglas Adams

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Re: Doing animation

Post by Octavia (?) » Sat May 23, 2020 11:29 am

Adiwan wrote:
Sat May 23, 2020 9:12 am
Whenever I see the thread title I read it like "Doing" was pronounced similar like "Boing", just with a D instead of a B.
Having "Animation" next to it makes me think of the springy, jumpy sound effect often heard in cartoons.
There's a hardware chain in California called "The Doit Center" which I read like "The Doyt Center." A doit pronounced that way is also a trumpet technique.

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Re: Doing animation

Post by Pocket (?) » Sat May 23, 2020 1:28 pm

Adiwan wrote:
Sat May 23, 2020 9:12 am
Whenever I see the thread title I read it like "Doing" was pronounced similar like "Boing", just with a D instead of a B.
Having "Animation" next to it makes me think of the springy, jumpy sound effect often heard in cartoons.
There's a conversation in a Homestar Runner cartoon about this.

:bwuh: "What are you doing?"

:-P "Um, Did you just say 'doyng'?"

:offendash: "What? No. DO-ING. I said, 'What are you DO-ing?'"

:-P "Oh. Well, you spelled it the same."

:bwuh: "Wha-geh...?!"
Every jumbled pile of person has a thinking part that wonders what the part that isn't thinking isn't thinking of...

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Re: Doing animation

Post by Mr. Big (?) » Sat May 23, 2020 7:51 pm

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I'll leave the sound effects of Kat taking her tail off to your imagination for the time being.

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Re: Doing animation

Post by Mr. Big (?) » Sat May 23, 2020 8:24 pm

That animation also took 4 tries to get it to look remotely decent.

While animating is fun, it's also really hard :-I

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Re: Doing animation

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The sound of a suction cup being pulled off a wall.
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Re: Doing animation

Post by Adiwan (?) » Sun May 24, 2020 3:17 am

No! It makes a "Doing" sound.
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Re: Doing animation

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Re: Doing animation

Post by diribigal (?) » Sun May 24, 2020 10:38 pm

Mr. Big wrote:
Fri May 22, 2020 3:03 pm
No. :twistaww:
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Re: Doing animation

Post by Madeline (?) » Sun May 24, 2020 10:45 pm

Mr. Big wrote:
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Re: Doing animation

Post by Madeline (?) » Sun May 24, 2020 10:52 pm

diribigal wrote:
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No. :twistaww:
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Re: Doing animation

Post by Mechanical Ape (?) » Mon May 25, 2020 1:55 am

Stop doing math

and start living it
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Re: Doing animation

Post by Mr. Big (?) » Tue May 26, 2020 1:08 am

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This is something I noticed in old anime and some Western cartoons: two frame animation, but with a smear layer added on top to give the illusion of movement

Wanted to try it out

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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Tue May 26, 2020 1:29 am

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Attempt #2. I like this one better.

3 drawings. I made the 2nd drawing intentionally rougher to take the smear into account.

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Re: Doing animation

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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Fri May 29, 2020 7:49 pm

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Jordan walking walking walking.

Roughed it out on TV Paint, but cleaned (and fixed) up on Krita.

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Re: Doing animation

Post by Madeline (?) » Fri May 29, 2020 8:32 pm

Mechanical Ape wrote:
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Stop doing math

and start living it
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Re: Doing animation

Post by Madeline (?) » Fri May 29, 2020 8:32 pm

Also good job on the animations!!

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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Sun May 31, 2020 1:59 am

Madeline wrote:
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Also good job on the animations!!
Thanks! :yay:

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Re: Doing animation

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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Wed Jun 03, 2020 3:00 pm

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Did this on ToonBoom. A friend recommended I try it out, so here it is! Some learning curve but not TOO bad. Here's a sketch version

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Cleaned up!

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Also on ToonBoom

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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Wed Jun 03, 2020 3:01 pm

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For clean-up I inked on Krita (wanted to retain the textured line), but then imported and vectorized on ToonBoom, where I colored.

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Jordan jamming to, I dunno, death metal.

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For Toon June: Invisible Bridge.

Did this super quick, around 20 minutes.

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Re: Doing animation

Post by Mr. Big (?) » Sat Jun 06, 2020 10:50 pm



Animating dialogue. Cat voiced by Aramek.

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Re: Doing animation

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I mostly focused on ease-in/out for this shot. Mouse ALSO voiced by Aramek.

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