I don’t know how many people are into traditional 2D animation, but I started a thread anyway.
I’ve just started myself and hopefully will progressively improve.
Here’s my first pencil test.
I didn’t cleanup and detail it because I wasn’t satisfied with the results.
Of course I’m looking for constructive criticism.
well the picture taking is really choppy so we can’t really see the animation. I would fix the camera on a tripod and the paper pad so we get a consistent result. So the only thing moving would be the drawing. Do you have access to some animation paper? Its just regular paper but it has holes to fasten a stack together so you can do the flip test yourself while you’re drawing.
Yeah thats the only problem. Do they still sell the stuff? Cell animation seems to have been fazed out for CG software. I’m sure you can buy it, but I would really want something that a broke student like me could afford.
I just started so I’ve been using stack graphing paper, since its the only thing I had around.
they still sell it and i’ve got a bunch lying around somewhere. i ordered it online somewhere about 4 years ago
My tip would be to scan your drawings. That’s how I made this low fi animatic ages back on my sisters crappy PC, her comp could only handle a few frame per sec:
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The end is alot better I reckon:
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This one is a completely random video created by myself and the students of the Kimihia Adventure program. A program to help educate and inspire “at risk” youth. This is the results of a animation workshop I did with them:
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shubacca on here is pretty godlike with the animation skills you might want to pick up some tips from him.
If you can’t get animation paper, just buy a pegbar and hole punch paper yourself. Make sure the holes in the papers you holepunch are all the same.
Then when you draw an animation, you can draw a frame, put that frame directly underneath your next frame and then trace over anything you need to trace over, and then edit the animation accordingly. Things stay stable this way.
Then when scanning it into the computer, tape the pegbar down and just insert the frames you want to scan one at a time. This way they all scan the same way as well.
This avoids choppy or “rocky” animation by making sure everything’s pretty much the same.
However, this is just one method.
Zinac, I’d check out “The illusion of life” , which is basically the bible of hand drawn animation. It goes over everything. It’s great.
I took Animation in college.
Here’s my demo reel. It’s mostly 2D animation on paper, with a little bit of flash.
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I didn’t end up going into the industry though. I do graphic design instead.
I FINALLY got a flash program so I have been making a few cartoons. I did it the hard way with printer paper and no lightboard a long time ago.
First practice cartoon I made, HQ isn’t as jumpy (but it is already pretty ugly)
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Cartoon I made about a character my gf came up with, mustaches are so manly.
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that last one is gross:wasted::wtf:
re: Pokemon - Haha, what the SHIT!?
bob sagat should be in here he is good at this
I’ve done a few simple cycles. This one being my favorite.
Not too bad!
It kind of “pops” at a certain point. (Watch the arm and shoulder) But all in all, not a bad effort.
Yeah, I noticed that as well.
I’ve only done some really short animations like this in imageready. I’ve been wanting to do a longer animation, but that would take up too much space if I did it in imageready. I still need to learn flash.
KEWL AnIMaSHuN THRED!
Zinac:
If you prefer working on grid paper, I think you should at least mark off the same 2 or 3 crosshairs on each page. Then you can re-align it after you scan.
Do you know how to flip drawings as you draw? Also, I recommend picking up the Animator’s Survival Guide as a book to study.
Here’s my college reel from 2004. So many long time…http://shuchaireel.blogspot.com/2008/06/animation-reel.html
Where’s bobsagat at… I’d love to see more of his stuff.
that was really cool. I tried animating in 20fps today and it is so hard. No matter how much I try to stay in my old lines it still comes out looking like crap. Movement is much more fluid though.