chariot on a record wheel

Monkey King animation from these designs. I’m planning a matching Fox animation and all I want to do is action scenes…. If my demo reel is entirely kung fu would anybody hire me is the question.

Animated in Photoshop for some awful reason. Why didn’t I animate it in TVPaint WHO KNOWS.

tokyodemons:

Tokyo Demons gets animated. Animation courtesy of the insanely awesome Angela (guzusuru).

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Here’s the animation work I did for Chromatic Press! I’m really pleased with how it came out, and it was a great experience working with these folks!

I finished one of my freelance animation projects today, yesss! I hope I’ll be able to show it to you guys at some point. I celebrated by animating something comparatively mindless.

Animation prrrrracticeee. The first gif was ref’d from Block B’s Nillili Mambo so I could get a sense for the kind of timing I wanted. The second gif is entirely original to see if I could replicate something similar. I couldn’t think of a name for this character but the file is titled ‘WOO’ so maybe that’s his name.

Animating the background action for this short short I’m doing, and
I didn’t really think it through.

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Continuing That Homestuck Animation! Next update will be the last, with sound added, higher res, the works. I’m almost done *v*!

If you have any questions, please visit my FAQ tag!
Previous installments can be found under my Animation tag
Done in Photoshop CS5.

I just started using TVPaint and WOW, SO THIS IS WHAT IT’S LIKE TO USE A REAL ANIMATION PROGRAM. It’s like I’ve been animating with 10 pound weights on each finger and now that I’ve taken them off I can fly. So this is my first tvpaint experiment, 212 frames, 24fps.

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.

Another small update! I actually recorded myself animating this time, so that will be uploaded shortly.

Small preview because a longer update won’t be coming for a bit, if this midterm season is anything to go by ;u;

More than halfway done! Continuing this crazy animation experiment masquerading as a Homestuck tribute. The song is Nattoppet by Detektivbryan. Animated in Photoshop CS5, sound-synced with After Effects. Yes I will finish it eventually.

If you have any questions, visit my FAQ tag. Thanks for watching!

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Previous Installments

Hello again everybody! Animation status: 1 minute 30 seconds, 1034 frames. 1 minute 20 seconds left to animate. Internet status: youtube uploads take literal days. So I’ll update with sound when I’m back in the US in about 1 month.

Drawing characters interacting is a lot of fun and pretty much the whole reason I want to animate, but it took me at least twice as long as usual. Timing action and reaction in facial expressions takes a lot of planning! Animated in CS5, yes I plan to finish the rough sketch+sound sync eventually. Thank you for your patience <3

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Trolls! Oh man this part took a while, thanks everybody for bearing with me. I still need to tweak a lot of the progression as I was just sort of eyeballing it the entire way, but I tried to make it at least a bit consistent. It’s really difficult to emulate camera movement like this, but the point of this project is to try new things. Next update will have the music added! Animated in Photoshop CS5.

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I love animating, and I’m happy to share these experiments with everybody. What you’re seeing is my learning process. I still have a ton to learn though, so thank you to those who have contacted me with resources and tips.

To head off common asks: Photoshop CS5, animating is a hobby only, yes this will be finished eventually. Thank you everybody for sticking with me so far!