wumwip Posted August 22, 2010 Share Posted August 22, 2010 (edited) I feel these should NOT be on the youtube thread, only because this thread focuses on strictly things that TPR members have animated! Here are some animations I did... You be the the judge... Arranged for oldest (first) to newest (last). Enjoy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDn_E25xrn8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZUKx6MLAAY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muyoR3J0UNs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f6gKvGkRIA Edited August 27, 2010 by wumwip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
let1gre Posted August 26, 2010 Share Posted August 26, 2010 Not sure if you want to make this a thread devoted to animation by TPR members and in general, but I've made some as well. I'm a pencil-and-paper guy myself... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wumwip Posted August 27, 2010 Author Share Posted August 27, 2010 ^ Good point! I changed the title so now ANYONE can show their animations! I'd love to animated with paper and pencil, but I wouldn't know how to how to go about it... I'd love to see your stuff. Post it! Post it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
let1gre Posted August 27, 2010 Share Posted August 27, 2010 Haha, great! Here's mine... It's been to a few film festivals and stuff. I'm working on a new one that should be done this winter sometime... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wumwip Posted August 28, 2010 Author Share Posted August 28, 2010 Awesome work! How did you make this? I've always wanted to do this, but I still don't know how to go about it... That's why I use the MS Paint program and just do simple animations from there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
let1gre Posted August 28, 2010 Share Posted August 28, 2010 Thanks! I drew tons upon tons of pictures on standard 8.5x11 paper and took pictures of them in a program called iStopmotion (only for Macs, I think). Other than that just simple drawing! Of course, I nearly got Carpal Tunnel 20 times... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wumwip Posted August 28, 2010 Author Share Posted August 28, 2010 Wow! That's awesome! The whole thing came together beautifully... I still have yet to do this with some of my characters I've created, and I have to get the right program to work for my PC so I can do the same. But for now, it's all about the MS Paint program. It can be pretty hard to work with, but in the end, it turns out okay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robbalvey Posted August 30, 2010 Share Posted August 30, 2010 Great stuff! Perhaps one day you guys can be sitting in our animation studio here at my day job! We specialize in traditional 2D animated games having finished A Boy and his Blob last year and recently Batman: Brave and the Bold. What we are working on now? I can't say...but I'm sure you guys will at least be happy to know that traditional 2D animation isn't dead! --Robb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
let1gre Posted August 30, 2010 Share Posted August 30, 2010 Great stuff! Perhaps one day you guys can be sitting in our animation studio here at my day job! We specialize in traditional 2D animated games having finished A Boy and his Blob last year and recently Batman: Brave and the Bold. What we are working on now? I can't say...but I'm sure you guys will at least be happy to know that traditional 2D animation isn't dead! --Robb Thanks Robb! 2D is where it's at! It's a shame that with massive animation production houses like DreamWorks and, yes, even Pixar, that the magic of 2D has fallen by the wayside to the average American moviegoer. Thank goodness that Disney started importing Miyazaki stuff, or otherwise all we'd have is Fairly OddParents and Dexter's Lab. By the way, A Boy and his Blob is gorgeous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wumwip Posted August 31, 2010 Author Share Posted August 31, 2010 Great stuff! Perhaps one day you guys can be sitting in our animation studio here at my day job! We specialize in traditional 2D animated games having finished A Boy and his Blob last year and recently Batman: Brave and the Bold. What we are working on now? I can't say...but I'm sure you guys will at least be happy to know that traditional 2D animation isn't dead! --Robb You work at a game company, eh? That's awesome! It's also great to know that 2D animation is still use/needed. I had the dream of opening my own animation studio that would create strictly 2D films to bring them back into popularity once again. I really don't understand why most people think that animation has to be 3D in order to be good. I saw The Princess and the Frog 3 times in theaters, because I simply LOVED how the 2D animation was done... Disney NEEDS to bring it back. That's on reason I'm disappointed as to how their newest fairy tale "Tangled" is going to be made--3D... bleh... They REALLY should've went 2D with it in my opinion (being that it is technically going to be a princess movie). P.S. Robb, if you can, see if your company would consider taking in the Crash Bandicoot series. That series is in dire need of some serious help... We haven't had a console game in 2 years, and the latest installment was cancelled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
braztaz Posted August 31, 2010 Share Posted August 31, 2010 You guys have got some great short films. I can see the amount of work you've had to put into them. For me myself, I've been getting into animation recently. I'd share them but they're not very good. They don't have serious plotlines like let1gre's, so maybe when I look into it more I can post something up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fooz Posted August 31, 2010 Share Posted August 31, 2010 Here are some stop motions my girlfriend and I made at school for a series of contests. Most were the winner of these contests! These feature my own music: and these do not: These are in reverse chronological order. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wumwip Posted August 31, 2010 Author Share Posted August 31, 2010 ^ Awesome awesome awesome! I love stop-motion animation! That takes some serious skill, time, and talent to do! Very nice, man! I loved how in the third one the dude was "running" like Gumby LOL that was great! I've always wanted to do that type of animation as well. I just want to try it at least once. Would you happen to have any tips or hints for someone who'd want to try out this type of animation? Btw, I subbed to ya on youtube. Keep up the awesomeness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
let1gre Posted August 31, 2010 Share Posted August 31, 2010 ^^Nice work man! Stop-action is super hard and those were really good! Would you happen to have any tips or hints for someone who'd want to try out this type of animation? As with paper animation, keep it simple. In paper, you have to have a character that won't kill you if you draw it 200 times, so in clay you need an easily moveable character that won't fall apart or break. Also, although 32 frames per second is one of the most popular and widely used rates for stop-motion, I'd suggest (for a beginner) to use around 15. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wumwip Posted August 31, 2010 Author Share Posted August 31, 2010 ^ Awesome, man! Thanks for the advice. I really got to get into those type of animation. Paint is a challenge as well. I don't know if any of you have tried it yet... It can be a pain at first, but you tend to get the hang of it quickly. And when it finished, you find that all the trouble was totally worth it. Some hints for making an animation with voice acting and sound effects: Do the voice acting first, then animate accordingly. After you get your voice acting in, you can ad music, but make sure it doesn't over-power your dialog. After you have those two at the right volume, add whatever sound effects you want, but also make sure they aren't too loud. Also, mouth movements are fairly easy to do when animating with the paint program. The main focus of the audience will actually be the characters facial expression which can be determined by the emotion in the character's eyes (if you notice in the last animation I posted, I did that a lot). Lastly, make sure the character facial expressions closely match the tone of the characters voice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fooz Posted September 1, 2010 Share Posted September 1, 2010 Make as small of movements and take as many pictures as possible, I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wumwip Posted September 1, 2010 Author Share Posted September 1, 2010 That's what I've heard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angry_Gumball Posted September 4, 2010 Share Posted September 4, 2010 This was my senior project, I spent about 3 or so months working on this. It's based on a true story of my crazy cat and pinball, as shown in the Pinball Thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wumwip Posted September 4, 2010 Author Share Posted September 4, 2010 ^ LOL that was cool! My cousin's cat does the same thing when we're playing the Wii. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angry_Gumball Posted September 5, 2010 Share Posted September 5, 2010 I almost forgot to post another 2d animation (I love 2d animation by the way). This was a final project for animation class, and is amusement park related. I present you: "High-Dive!" It was inspired by Final Destination 3 and my home park, CGA! Looking back though, I wish I went with the hand-painted look for the backgrounds. And here's messing with stop motion in class. I'd like to do some more of this for a smoother animation. Maybe I'll share some special effects stuff as that's animation-based intermixed with live action. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wumwip Posted September 5, 2010 Author Share Posted September 5, 2010 ^ Hey those were great! Again, I really wanna try out that clay animation. Looks so fun! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angry_Gumball Posted September 5, 2010 Share Posted September 5, 2010 ^If you do, keep these in mind: use a tripod (A must), and do not pan the camera like I did. Panning the camera, just like the old movie film back then, can give the illusion that things are jumping faster than normal and it just looks...lame. My skate and die animation could have been way smoother if I didn't pan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wumwip Posted September 5, 2010 Author Share Posted September 5, 2010 Cool. Also what kind of clay would you recommend? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angry_Gumball Posted September 5, 2010 Share Posted September 5, 2010 I actually bought this clay at Michaels called "Clay-Toon." Basically it's a plasticine clay. The clay you saw in the video was some old clay I had when I was a kid and I mixed all the colors together. I need to dig up my legos and try something out, should be fun! When doing clay, many use a metal armature (frame) inside so that the arms/legs won't sag. I didn't as my figures were small enough and thick enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wumwip Posted September 5, 2010 Author Share Posted September 5, 2010 ^ Okay. That's good to know. I can't wait to get started with this! I'm still also working with the MS Paint animation method. It's pretty cool, but hard at times... So when making a clay animation you just take a jazillion pictures? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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