Trying to get better at character animation so I decided to animate the Macavity design from the unmade Amblimation Cats movie!
I learned a lot doing this and I'd love to animate this character again some time!
Made with
@Krita_Painting
xx
Planning out a long tutorial about Drawing in Perspective,
so I thought I'd challenge myself to see if I could get a mirror to rotate.
It's not perfect, but it was interesting.
I finally a have a reel! But because everything I've done recently is super NDA there's like nothing from the last year or so on here oops...
A super massive thanks to
@Zebirdbrain
for putting this together. Y'all should go follow her.
In case you haven't been playing Splatoon 3, Dead End Season 2 is dropping on Netflix on October 13th!
(I'm extra excited cus I worked real hard on it but heck it's gonna be so good to finally see it all finished)
and finally... The explosion. This was a lot of fun and a lot of heartache. I tried to match the debris from the first shot to the second, not that you can tell. I animated all of those circles by hand... I put way too much effort into this. Please love me.
#StarlightBrigade
4/4
Here's the other fun shot I did for the Stranger Things animation! This was a lot of fun. I really wanted to make the lightning feel powerful without just flashing the whole screen white. Ended up making these mini exploding electricity balls. Also happy
#animonthly
!
and BOOOM we are off! sometimes with
#animation
you just gotta get a li'l crazy. I adore shots like this that let you just throw everything at the wall and make people go WHOA.
@michaeldoigart
did so good colouring this. Round of applause.
#StarlightBrigade
#kotlt
3/4
How bout those Ferrofluid fx though, huh? Who's idea was that? jeez. Let's just put "detail" into the core design idea.... but mmmm look at that fancy transformin'
#StarlightBrigade
ship! I can't deny this was a lot of fun. Especially figuring out the water and all that. 2/4
And finally, I'm really happy to be able to share this rough since I put a lot of care and detail into it. This was definitely the hardest shot for me to draw. Not only because it's heavy perspective, but because it's Triangles and those do NOT play nicely with perspective. 4/4
I did a little shot for the
#Interlopers
animation collab!
It was a fun way to practice a bit of character animation. Can't wait to see the full thing x
Sound design by
@gbstrelok
I think today's a great day to note that all art and animation I do is within Krita, unless It's for a job in which I'm required to use other software.
Heckin love ya,
@Krita_Painting
Here's a wip of a celeste animation
Onto some more explosions, this sequence was one of the first groups of consecutive shots I animated, and quickly putting these together was the first time I got a sense of how this video would feel. Watch the final version for
@EllePowerr
's gorgeous Strive in that last shot 3/4
I think my favourite shot to animate in
#Deadendia
was this soup.
I went into it thinking it'd be really quick and easy but ended up using a tonne of different shades to show the form of it and I just had the best time.
#2dfx
another
#1houranim
with the
#anitoots
xxx
These things are a great weekly event to make me do... something x
The theme was Claws!
I wanted to do more with this but only 1 hour means only 1 hour!
It's not just that NFTs are awful for the environment.
It's not just that they're being used to facilitate art theft.
It's not just that blockchain tech has created tonnes of e-waste and raised computer parts prices dramatically,
It's also that it improves literally nothing.
Let's use this as a learning opportunity, shall we?
Why is all animation not rotoscoped when it could be so much easier?
To start, this question implies that 3D animation is quick and simple enough that it can always be used to be discarded. 3D animators deserve better than that
I really dislike the term "AI" being used for any form of machine learning AND language models AND generative adversarial networks AND every other new tech.
Machine Learning where you want to place a brush stroke is not the same as Diffusion based Generative Imagery stealing art.
Reminder that even on the first movie the Spiderverse team literally used AI in the process of making the film.
We are little by little losing the fight against AI art.
This nonsense seeks to devalue 2D animation, does a massive disservice to the work of 3D animators, claiming their job is so much easier it can be used everywhere to be discarded, and also misses the point it tries to counter whilst actively disproving itself with video evidence.
Petition to rename the Steam Deck to the "Poop Deck" to better represent what people will actually use it for?
plus we can have fun pirate themed marketing
Here are some of the Ship Model Sheets for the
#StarlightBrigade
MV for
@TWRPband
that I put together with
#KnightsoftheLightTable
!
First up is Dan's/Strive's ship! This design went through the most tweaks and is the more open and avian-looking of the six. Also its my fave🌟
I think this'll be the first
#1houranim
where I really didn't feel like I got to a logical finishing point, but that's how it goes sometimes!
#anitoots
theme this week was "Crying".
@animegolem
"good animation" is about whether it achieves its goal and has nothing to do with framerate, arcs, smoothness or anything that can be generalised.
The latest
#1houranim
is here!
This one has been a long time coming. The theme was "Gay Sh*t."
I love these
#anitoots
Constantly pushing me to do the stuff I find difficult.
Like... characters x
I've spent the last 24 hours just refreshing twitter and trying to keep up with all this love for
#StarlightBrigade
. I'm not great at replying to everyone and I don't know how to accept praise... BUT 1/2
For the people in the back, Consumer Capitalism is not Democracy. You are not "voting with your dollar."
The best metric we have for what determines a series on Netflix getting renewed is the "completion rate"
Do 50% of people that watch this show watch the whole thing?
I was discussing this issue with friends. It's frustrating when I'll hear some people get mad that their shows get cancelled yet they were watching or downloading it illegally and those views and downloads, now in the MILLIONS these days, don’t count for a show’s ratings at all!
But if any of you are animators or thinking about getting into animation, do not hesitate to message me! I am always open to help, support and give feedback.
The best way for us to grow is together xx 2/2
Yet another
#1houranim
with the
#anitoots
!
Theme was "Hug" which was... nice and stressful for everyone xx
Definitely the quietest everyone's been in one of these challenges so far.
I went a bit too ambitious with this
#1houranim
and only got 4 frames oops xx
the theme was Sweep so I had to draw the number one Sweeper in the City!
#cityhunter
THIS. People often forget this when they're drawing but it is SO important and really key to making your art believable and letting people actually connect with it on a deeper level.
I could not have said this better myself.
The most important part of a drawing is the 𝙝𝙪𝙜𝙚 𝙗𝙤𝙤𝙗𝙨. i mean some 𝙨𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙤𝙪𝙨 𝙝𝙤𝙣𝙠𝙚𝙧𝙨. a real set of 𝙗𝙖𝙙𝙤𝙣𝙠𝙚𝙧𝙨. packin some 𝙙𝙤𝙗𝙤𝙣𝙝𝙤𝙣𝙠𝙚𝙧𝙤𝙨. massive 𝙙𝙤𝙝𝙤𝙤𝙣𝙠𝙖𝙗𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙠𝙤𝙡𝙤𝙤𝙨. big old 𝙩𝙤𝙣𝙝𝙤𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙠𝙤𝙤𝙜𝙚𝙧𝙨
#mementomori
This channel has been a beacon of light in a year that desperately needed one. Thankyou so much for being there every single day. Even though you're gone now, I'm really looking forward to this next year.
You guys F*CKING DID IT!!!
That's a lot of new people all of a sudden! Welcome!
I'm glad you liked the mirror thing! I wasn't expecting anything from that.
I hope you stick around. There's lots to come (hopefully) soon!
Animator Twitter is wild. Whether it's people obsessing over a tiktok cosplayer's "perfect movements" or a youtuber boldly proclaiming that all anime is first made in 3D then traced, the wildest of takes never cease to amaze and perplex me.
@GameGrumps
This is a good place to let people know I'm replacing gesundheit with the much more enjoyable phrase "Easy Sneezy."
If one of your friends sneezes, make sure you tell them, hey. Easy Sneezy.
the current "attention economy" capitalist framing of the world has removed all humanity from art. Everything is just "content" now.
It's no longer a drawing, that someone drew.
It's just content.
It exists only in its final state and everything before then can be optimised away.
Hi
@matthewmercer
! I once had a dream where you had a purple car that was just a throne on 4 wheels. Anyway I thought you might enjoy this animated music video I worked on a while ago!
Have a nice day!
@MistyChronexia
you may study anime, but many of us study animation, and people do feel attacked when you tell them their work in 3D is just a useful crutch, their work in 2D trad can or should only have been roto, or that roto is necessarily an better process than our art.
Blockchain tech and Crypto is abysmal for the environment. The entire idea of what makes it "work" is that it takes so much energy to prevent anyone owning the system.
It requires a huge CO2 and GPU Sacrifice and for that reason I could never get on board with it.
Yesterday on
@niftygateway
:
A single artist burned the equivalent of 49 years of electricity consumption, with an edition of just 2 artworks.
CO2 emitted: 103,129 Kg
So, Disney actually already released The Lion King in 3D. Back in 2011, they took the original movie and converted it to stereoscopic 3D for a 2 week cinematic release and a BluRay 2 weeks later. It was BEAUTIFUL.
It just makes me so sad I don't know anyone else who saw it.