#short animation

Made a lil 4 frame animation in 3 hours!

really happy about it!

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Its Dangerous to Go Alone take This!

how to turn 3 grown men into animals

Shiny Clefairy

[An animated version of my “What is POTS?” comic!]

Behold! An animation! With narration! I had a lot of fun making this, and I hope you all enjoy this quick little guide about POTS! You can find it on YouTube here.

i know that im not a genius here and the Moon Knight Sailor Moon fanarts have been done already

but i didn’t find any animated versions (maybe my search wasn’t good enough)

anyway it was good for a practice with my style

Deathstroke vs Batfleck inspired by Jay Oliva’s storyboard he made for the Batfleck solo movie

Deathstroke vs Batfleck inspired by Jay Oliva’s storyboard he made for the Batfleck solo movie

My Turning Red fanart

✨Happy birthday to these boys~✨I’m surprised that Kageyama is 181.9cm and Fushiguro is 175cm.

Some progress of my film!

A bit different to my usual stuff but I’m modeling my witch in 3D! I have just finished the body model (modeling the hands killed me) and now I’m going to rework the hair :D

Here’s some of the concept art for my second year film! I also post more updates on twitter!

Sand Witch Concept Art

I’m directing my second year 3D film ‘Sand Witch’ - 30 seconds of Dee, a witch, as she tries (and fails?) to make herself a magical lunch! There’s also a frog!

We’re a team of 4 and we’re so excited to make this project the best it can be! I’ll be posting progress, so stick around if you’re interested!

Except ain’t nobody take me out of it that easily (like in gif) 

It’s(not surprisingly) difficult to get substantial progress done with only small patches of time during the week after work when I’m too exhausted and stressed out to deal with anything, let alone what’s supposed to be “passion” project. And by the weekend I’m just SO done, I need to take a break.

With that said I did, get something done, though not as much as I hoped I would. The main reason I’m having such hard time getting this new version of animatik off the ground is that I haven’t decided what my objectives for it are.

When I said I want to “tighten it up” visually, I accidentally put too big expectations of how close to the final I want it to look, which took me away from what should actually be the point which is acting and base sound design, not backgrounds.

Seeing as they are based on actual location, I’m already familiar with what I want in it. I can get away with just written notes for now. I don’t really need to come up with anything “new”, just find the best way to interpret it, and to me that’s….Not as important right now xD
Another thing this animatik is supposed to do is help me figure out techniques and ways in which I will put together the final product — final compositing. Which I plan to do either in DaVinci 15orBlender. I have feeling I might pick up Blender much faster, but DaVinci may be more suited for my needs?
And also, I may be bit masochistic, because I started trying to figure out logic behind node system in fusion, and by brain is melting through my ears and I love it xD

I findCasey Faris channel to be very informative when it comes to DaVinci resolve 15 and Skyline Motions has some neat tutorials. His accent may be confusing at times and he goes fast and doesn’t really explain often why he does certain things, but if you follow along (he does leave resources for that) surely you can pick up the logic behind it as you go. In fact, that’s one of his tutorials on the left monitor that was closest to what I need in the workflow I remember from my animatic-making days in After Efects.
And this tutorial from Casey really helped me understand the logic behind nodes better. You really can explain everything with cookies

Other than that I scribbled some character designs on my breaks at work, again, no special stylization in mind. Probably some generic-ish anime, perhaps bit more cartoony, idk, we’ll see.

My strategy (lol “strategy”) for nextweek is to get up few hours earlier before work and get stuff done then, but that’s a tall order since I sure do love my sleep hahah…But I’ll still try.

Cya next week then~

I am! I am…. I just got derailed this month due to some health issues and poor time management and working on some other lighter things that I could squeeze in and had strength to do… But I haven’t touched this project at all.

I was thinking about it, how to proceed and all that since I got stuck on concept side of things and I figured I need to work on storyboard/animatik more, but I will ramp it up so I’ll be making concepts art and test shots as I go along. Once I have that figured out as detailed as possible that should make whole production side of things a lot easier, or at least help plan it as efficiently as possible.

But I did promise in last entry that I’ll share some other inspirations for how I want this thing to feel and look, so let’s get into that:
 

Sangatsu no Lion

Probably my main go to for the style I’m going for. I especially love how they portray peoples thoughts and feelings in this show through visuals and sound design and I would like for something like that to be at base for my own short too, since it is, at core, more about conveying feelings rather then a standard story, even though I do have it split in that 3 arc structure.
I am still unsure about the art style itself, but that’s what I’ll be exploring when I start refining my animatik.
As far as those are concerned,3-gatsuandMob Psycho are my starting points, and the work od KyoAnistudio in general is inspirational to me as well, because other then looking gorgeous, they know how to do their drama and characters, but I won’t be shooting forthatlevel of polish, oh no, I feel overwhelmed just thinking about it, But simple, experimantal and energetic look other two have going feels more manageable, we’ll see.

Hopefully April will be more productive for this lil’ big project.
To keep myself accountable I’ll strive to update here at the end of every week. That should help with planning my monthly update videos too.

Here’s some more gifs for the end~

No, seriously, I have no idea what I’m doing. You’d think I do with my experience*  but I really don’t

Some time last year I got back into 2D animation and out of need to try something more structured for practice I came up with this short sequence to serve as… a guide of sorts for that. Here’s animatic I did for that one

Really simple, right? Just some scene out of context. I even tried to animate one of the shots in PS. it was nightmare O__O

Anyway, because I took too long, I lost the motivation to complete it, so it went to my scrap-folder. Besides that, that scene is based on something that’s kinda-sort of touchy/personal subject to me, so it didn’t feel so good to get immersed in it sometimes,and animation was supposed to fun time for me so of course I’m gonna chuck it to the side if it feels bad to work on.

HowEveR  — the the host of Animator Guild discord group Howard Whimshurst announced 1 year short film challenge for our community (and beyond, everyone can participate) and I got sudden spark to do revive this little experiment from the trash, and confront it properly.

Link to the contest info

Thankfully, monthly challenge for February at AG discord was storyboard, so I used that opportunity to jump right into it and I already have two iterations of storyboard and one animatic, which I plan to revisit and polish further.

Not sure how much of it I should show here though.. I would want  to keep this already plotless short as spoiler free as possible… Hmmm… How about ambiguous artsy teaser photos? And you’ll get more hints on it as we go.
I did say more about it in my most recent video which is also shared here, right before this post actually, so check that out.

But yeah… I’m kind of struggling how to move onto one of the next stages, which would be concept art.

Do I start with… Style exploration? Moodshots to decide on color palettes? Layout of the rooms? Do I need to build them in 3D? I would have to consult with animatic about that tho…. And I want to polish that some more…
Character design too, see what animation style/pipeline I should use… Lot’s of decisions to make…

Well, I do have my work cut out for me for this month. Pre-production involves a lot of things and it’s not necessarily linear so I’ll be going back and forth between concepts and animatic a lot in this process. This is also good time to make use of Visual Boards to inform these decisions.

Maybe next post should be about that? Sure, why not.

Stay tuned for References, Inspirations and perhaps some sketch explorations.

TBC!

* I worked for 1 year aprox as storyboard/animatic artist for HOPA games cut scenes, and did few comics back in the day… That and few animation exercises and two flipbooks for my high school and college assignments… That’s the extent of my experience xD

A valentine’s animation I made for Feb. It’s a lot inspired by All of us are Dead.

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