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thanks :)Quote:
Originally posted by twindragon
Bacon man that is a very cool flash cartoon. It reminds me of happy tree friends. I may have some questions concerning how you animate seeings as I am new at this.
sure, i'd be happy to (try :D) and answer some questions you may have. though i'm still a beginer! :o
Welp, it's finally done. I finished my first cartoon! It will be a part of a web series based on my three friends and I. I will be making 4 episodes total about how each of the 4 characters remembers us meeting. This first episode is how we met according to my character. Sorry about the large file size. I hope you enjoy it and any comments would be terrific. Thanks!
"The Four Studs"
http://www20.brinkster.com/thefourstuds/toon.html
-Jason
lol, its finally done! :D cool cartoon :D funny too!
well done, cant wait to see more. keep it up.
not much (as i've been doing lots O' school work :D) but a slight update of my new site. just that the font is now chosen (though i may change it) and a simple button animation, which i dont like, but cant think of anything else to do :D
http://www.cartoonfox.hostrocket.com/cartoonfoxv2.html
haha thanks fox!
Nice, bacon man. :D
I have been busy as well, but tonight I took time out of my schedule and whipped up this stupid animation for my "temp" site on DeviantArt.com...
SEE MY NEW LAME SIG :p
-pXw
lol, willouby I like your new sig :D
Bacon, I like it when buttons either change colour or enlarge when you roll over them, just seems nicer. Maybe you should make a load of different buttons and get peeps to choose :)
Munkufust, you anim is loading but I'm off to cinema now so I'll watch it later and comment :)
:domo:
okay sounds good olly. Thanks for the help in advance.
hey guys!
haven't posted in here or looked at any posts (sry!) but I've been planning this anim project.... so far I've done a walking cycle (that turns into like a 360 and all kindsa other things) anim (just sketches, something like 75 frames) and then attempted at making another of a character running towards a wall. couild I post these and then see what u ppl think on the quality? because I was just going to make a general "skeleton" for this one character running at a wall, then the "camera" would turn as he jumps up, wall kicks (360 degrees) and then does a flip and lands, the glass wall/mirror shattering... and other stuff. I'm using a wooden mannequin to help with my modelling, do you guys reccomend anything else? like pre-made body parts and then animating them? this is all just for the structure stage. I was going to do frame-by frame for the final product. sorry this was a long and talkative post, once I finish up some homework I'll take a loook around what all's in here! :)
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Originally posted by Munkufust
Welp, it's finally done. I finished my first cartoon! It will be a part of a web series based on my three friends and I. I will be making 4 episodes total about how each of the 4 characters remembers us meeting. This first episode is how we met according to my character. Sorry about the large file size. I hope you enjoy it and any comments would be terrific. Thanks!
"The Four Studs"
http://www20.brinkster.com/thefourstuds/toon.html
-Jason
cool work dude, where do you get such great ideas ;)
Can't wait also for more updates
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Originally posted by The_e-Tahn
hey guys!
haven't posted in here or looked at any posts (sry!) but I've been planning this anim project.... so far I've done a walking cycle (that turns into like a 360 and all kindsa other things) anim (just sketches, something like 75 frames) and then attempted at making another of a character running towards a wall. couild I post these and then see what u ppl think on the quality? because I was just going to make a general "skeleton" for this one character running at a wall, then the "camera" would turn as he jumps up, wall kicks (360 degrees) and then does a flip and lands, the glass wall/mirror shattering... and other stuff. I'm using a wooden mannequin to help with my modelling, do you guys reccomend anything else? like pre-made body parts and then animating them? this is all just for the structure stage. I was going to do frame-by frame for the final product. sorry this was a long and talkative post, once I finish up some homework I'll take a loook around what all's in here! :)
Howdy e-tahn, long time no seeing you
great project can't wait to see it, now regarding the pre-modeled bodies, my only take against this is that file size will be huge, as most 3d modeleres do too many shades and polygons, but you can always edit the output or smoothen it out
now for human bodies, nothing beats poser, which then can be exported into a 3ds that will be imported by swift 3d to export to an .swf
hehehe sounds crazy
here's a schematic
Poser >> Swift 3d >> Flash content
or of course you can go directly with 3ds with the flash plugin and the character studio
or with Maya 4.0+ with the flash plugin
hope that helps
Munkufust that was great! :D
Reminds me of south Park.
it also loaded pretty fast on my 56k considering all the music and animation!
Nice work mang!
:domo:
hey thanks for the info; but what I meant was I'm not using any programs other than Flash, no 3D involved; just drawing all the frames out and then going from there. I am interested in 3D modelling though, so I'm sure your info will come in handy (did want to get a 3D flash program, but I'm not too great @ modelling)
http://www.tahnee.org/stuffupload.htm
that has the links to the 2 anim things I've done so far; the first is a walk cycle (first one, I plan on working on others to get it down pat) and the second was what I was planning for the animation/movie thing, except it didn't give me the feeling that the character was really going fast and forward. (at the end of this the camera's supposed to rotate around the char and he kicks the "wall", but I did it too fast so it doesn't look good) wish I put playback controls on there but didn't, soooo any imput would be appreciated... haven't animated in Flash before! (also I know that if he was running forward he would get smaller, just haven't played with the sizing/skewing yet.) sry there's no preloaders! :(
Hey, nice work from all of you...
Posted this a while ago but thought it would go down well here...
Pencil Animation of girlfriend ducking to avoid frisbee (a black dot to give some meaning to the movement)
thank you very much olly! Yeah the characters look south parkish for sure haha. Thanks again.
Jason
@ e-tahn
Try importting cliparts from Microsoft Office, as most of them are already vector graphics, then you can break them apart and modify them to look like 3d graphics.
also I think Maya can be downloaded for free but it has some limitations, nothing in the application, but they put a silly watermark or something
maybe you can get the s/w you need on a student discount or so.
Dude nothing worked??Quote:
Originally posted by robbmcaulay
Hey, nice work from all of you...
Posted this a while ago but thought it would go down well here...
Pencil Animation of girlfriend ducking to avoid frisbee (a black dot to give some meaning to the movement)
It kept loading for over 45 minutes and I got bored and closed the browser window, I use Flash Player 7.0 btw, but that couldn't be the problem coz it's retro-compatible
:confused:
It's quite a hefty animation...
Did the preloader not work?
Ah well... it's nothing too spectacular anyway...
robbmcaulay:
Worked for me...and so did the pre-loader.
Dangerous frisbees! :D
The_e-Tahn:
Very neat stuff...
-pXw
Well, since everyone seems to be doing a frame-by-frame, hand drawn animation, I decided to do one.
http://www.deviantart.com/view/3236807/
The girl was drawn frame by frame with my trusty tablet and the background elements (obviously not frame by frame) were done afterwards.
As always, I added a random element in the foreground.
See how many objects pass her by. :D
-pXw
thats sick man! do you just redraw every frame? or do onion skinning?
Onion skinning, and then "traced" the previous frame. My memory isn't that good. :D
I should also note I drew it about 10 times bigger and then shrunk it down.
Anyhow, I forgot to mention it earlier, but you have a very amusing animation, dude. And all the pieces fit together nicely (from the loading screen to the actual animated piece...)
-pXw
wow thanks man! I appreciate it very much! I'm gonna try what you did with that frame by frame animation. Thats killer lookin.
The gal reminds me of Sadako from The Ring series man...Quote:
Originally posted by robbmcaulay
Hey, nice work from all of you...
Posted this a while ago but thought it would go down well here...
Pencil Animation of girlfriend ducking to avoid frisbee (a black dot to give some meaning to the movement)
mmm tiki punch. I think i would fight my friends over the last bottle. Try freezing it for a few days. When it thaws a bit it tastes just like slush puppies. gotta go get some now
no way! A fellow tiki punch fan? I've never met another person that drank it! I've tried freeing it too, didn't work out to well though. Had to share lol.
I've never had tiki punch, I don't think we get it here in lil' old England :(
Put together a little "nightmare" thing for Halloween.
http://www.tco.net/~phacker/nightmare.html
hey everyone! I am starting out a feature bi-weekly or so cartoon. It will star the characters from my cartoon, the four studs ( http://www20.brinkster.com/thefourstuds/toon.html ). Basically I want to try and get people to e-mail with questions about how to be "cooler". Then one of my characters who is rather arrogant but oblivious to the fact that he is not cool, will answer it in a cartoon. So if you'd like to help me kick this off, e-mail [email protected] with a question. Thanks a ton!
hey guys!
munkufust, interesting idea there-- cool little animation you posted earlier, too! kinda like strongbad (homestarrunner) how he does his emails... but not, I guess? (for your idea) sounds cool. :D
man last weekend I got sick so I just sat in front of hte ocmputer and ANIMATED. 105 frame-by-frames, 15 frames a sec = 7 seconds worth of animation, 2 full days and 17 frames that have "finalized outlines" meaning that their outlines of the character are complete, but no background or color yet. AAAGH! eh what happens is the character, Spencer, runs and runs forward, the camera turns around him as he jump-kicks a wall (when he kicks, the foot is right in the camera, so to say) and that's a glass wall he kicks, or it will be at least.... does an in-air turn and flip, lands, (now the camera's facing him) and he gets up. it'll have more b4 and after, think I already posted all this.... just saying I actually drew out all the skeletons 4 those frames and I'm animating it, should I post a beta, even though on a 56k it'll take something like 200 seconds to load? :D and what do u think? first animation I've ever really done b4, am I going too far? I want it to be (when finalized) like an anime trailer, but not take half an hour to load on 56 k. man I talk a lot. well just looking for imput, that's all.... :) OH YEAH! anyone know how to optimize lots of pencil lines so they still look perfect but load fast? or gradients like that? or SOMETHING? thanks! :D :D :D
hey, sorry for double-posting, but here's what I've done so far (actually, the final skeleton version with aalllllllll the painted in details is about a meg, so I'm not uploading that one, instead just uploaded the original skeleton and 16 frames of beta.)
http://www.tahnee.org/stuffupload.htm
lots of work is still needed 2 be done, but that's where the first Tahnime project stands! lemme know what u think. :)
Nice e-Tahn. :D
How long did it take to the detailed running one?
-pXw
hey, glad u liked it! :)
each frame took about 7 minutes. I was going over guidelines that'd been drawn adn re-drawn over and over on other layers, so it was pretty easy. BTW how's that for a 14 year old? (being i turn 15 in a few days!) :D
http://wave.prohosting.com/twamp/ani/guy/guy1.html
one of my first frame by framers.. drawn with a mouse.. i'm thinking about bringing this guy back into some of my newer ani's..
Oh man, I've got so many little flash clips, I wish I saw this thread before. When I get internet at my place I'll have a ton of videos to post.
Something I put together for an ecard marketer. They didn't like it so tell me what you think. It's one of my favorites.
http://www.tco.net/~phacker/wishawish/trailer.html
the animation looks good i dunhave sound so i think i missed most of it..
i made this w/ my wacom.. i do my frame by framer's using onion skinning aswell... i dunthink there's really anyone who can do it anyother way..
http://members.cox.net/toastybuns/cipflambirth.html
Sup in this internet.
http://ian.ninjas4hire.com/monoclewave.gif
I have been on hiatus. Here is a hilarious animated gif of a man with a monocle, a top hat, and a suit, waving to the public who surely can't afford such classy clothing.
Done real quick-like in fireworks.
Hey hey guys!
Ah it's been a while since my last cartoon!
Been sorting out unis and colleges, nightmare!
Anyways, here it is:
:) click me
this doesn't make sense..
but i thought the smoke looked nice
http://members.cox.net/toastybuns/clippinwar.html