chariot on a record wheel

Q & A

Hello! Not to single you out, but I get about 5 of these messages a week.

Please stop asking when the video will be finished! On every single update I’ve posted, I have said “I intend to finish sketching it out”. And I am working on it. I cannot give an ETA, because I work on it when I feel like working on it, and in my free time, nothing more nothing less. Please be patient.
Thank you!

Answer Box

Time to clean out the ol’ anon inbox!

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And a process video. It’s a little low-quality, but at least you can get a sense of how much I abuse ctrl-z, and how I am really just continuously flying by the seat of my pants. This is about 50 minutes’ worth of animating condensed to ~9 minutes.

In which I answer questions that keep happening!

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Animation FAQ

Not annoying at all!! I used Photoshop CS3 for the bulk of it, and then my computer died so I moved to CS5. Still getting the hang of it, but luckily the animation stuff hasn’t changed much. I’ve gotten a few asks about my process, and even though I am pretty sure my animation process can be summed up by saying ‘draw lots of pictures in succession and hope they look good together’, I guess I will try and explain a little bit more about how I’ve been doing things. Mind you, I really, really suggest looking up tutorials online if you are interested in animation because this is barebones and it’s just explaining technical aspects of how I animate in CS5 rather than specific techniques. And also half the time I am animating I am mucking around practicing things I’ve just looked up on the internet. So here we go  ┌(;・ω・)┘

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