That's toad-ly awesome!!

Excellent work! :)

sweet!

neat

Woot.. pretty good :)

ah.. nice to see that you're working on that nice citra song again :)

Are you going to put them all together in one whole animation instead of piece by piece once your completely finished ?

Absolutely! I have a full layout for the video in Premiere, and I think I can combine the swf's too.

oh awesome! :D I love the song and the animations looks pretty good too ^_^

cool, got another segment done i see. this must be taking you forever man XD.

Would be taking less time if it wasn't so relatively tedious to do the thing. XD

thats awesome

Looking great, dude! :3

looks great, awesome movement on the tweens and set ups for the keys :3

did i ever tell you, your an animation god

THERE IS NO DATA, ONLY XUL.

Excellent work, Snapai. The animation movements were completely amazing and I was blown away. Nice illustrations to the song ^^ the song was cool too.

This is wonderfully awesomely fantastically amazing!

That turned out really cool :D

Finish it! <3

No, YOU finish it! It's only another 2000 drawings or so! >:E
:3
(workin' on it)

I will offer all the pink I can muster up. :3

Glad to see you are still doing this! It was a great idea. :3

good job ^_^ keep up the work buddy!

nice :D

Hand drawn animation is time consuming, especially with only one person doing all the work. Great job!

Yes, though Toonboom makes it 2x faster (by eliminating all of the paper shuffling)

uh, damn.

Very smooth man. Good weight and gravity, and it he moves very naturally. I likes it!

Wow, the animation, now fully done out, is so smooth! Can't wait to see it all in color and finished. Is QUALITY. :)

i wish I could actually animate things :)

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Get that book. :3

cooool :)


well.. my other problem is I dunno how to drawwwww :P

You know well enough to do your flashes.

And by the time you've finished an animation or two, you'll know. Nothing like a few hundred drawings to get you well on your way. XD

You could also get the Vilppu Drawing Manual: http://www.vilppustore.com/manuals.htm

Also, nothing in the Animator's Survival Kit is specifically related to drawing. You could do the same things with a clay puppet or cut out paper, or a computer model.

hundreds of drawings no doubt! I can only imagie how much work that is...

Well, as you can see on the above animation, it doesn't have to be particularly complicated drawings...this is no more than a few scribbles and circles thrown at a pen tablet. But it's about 160 drawings long.

I don't think I've drawn 160 thingies in my life!!! :P

Play makes perfect! (Because practice is boring)
Talent is merely the tendency to play, rather than work, at a particular subject.
See also:
http://blogs.psychologytoday.com/bl...../freedom-learn

I mean, have you ever run into a "talented" artist that hadn't (at least initially) been drawing stuff forever for the enjoyment of it? :D

Yeah... I don't have that kind of patience to learn how to become good at things... :)

Har, you're blocking alot. Snapai's right on the money here. Besides, there's other forms of animation that don't require drawing: stop-motion cutouts, using puppets, using clay, 3D - the list goes on. Hell, Robot Chicken have done some fine animation using toy figurines!

If I am right on the money, howcome I'm broke all the time? D:

Also, pleeeeaase don't turn this into a "You're wrong, he's right" sorta thing, I want people to play with this out of a tinkering sense of curiosity or fun, not out of some holdover neurotic guilt about being "correct or else". ^^;

Wait what? I'm just agreeing that animation is something this dude could pursue.

If you're looking at it from "patience", you're already expecting it to be something annoying to have to put up with!

I just want more people to have fun with this, is all. :)
Particularly those who wish they could!

I'll put it on my list of things to learn to do eventually.

Thanks :)

Dude yes!

Yes, dood. Induditely so.

,,,

wat?

You made me dream of dancing citras >.>

... and it's not the first time...

Woo!

Soo many awesome things about how that animates. You're mad.

Mwahaha! Mwahaha~! LIVE, do you hear me!? GIVE MY CREATION...LIIIIIIIIIFE! @_@

Good work

Your sense of dynamics is incredible. It really looks convincing when he falls off the screen.

Yes, if you accept the fact that his hands spontaneously superglued themselves to the heart. XD

Duh!
It's obvious! When you love it's hard to let it go!

Kind of the point, isn't it? If he could just let go, it wouldn't have dragged him down with it.

Cool! It's like high school english classes, there's all these other relavant meanings that the author probably never intended in the first place. XD

*snuggles with you* Luv ya ^^ Will never let go! ^^

But we just met! D:

This is coming along awesomely. Two things I'd noticed though. First, you could have the citra catching the heart go down lower and harder, because the sense of weight in the catch is pretty much the same as it is in as walking with the heart. Also the part where he skitters around trying to get under the heart comes too fast and it's bit hard to make out what's happening. I'm thinking have the citra look up eariler (on "say" perhaps) and but more shifting of momentum in the weight as the citra moves into position and maybe even slow him down a bit.

Otherwise I dig. ^^

Too late.

Already done more work it? Oh well, still looks cool as is.

This is awesome :3 I Rarely comment, but this totaly deserve a comments + fav and watch hehe ^^
Keep the good work :D Cant wait to see this finished.

I do hope you will get this song finished I want to see the finished product SOOO BAAAAD!!!

nice smooth movement and posing. nice job. :]

Wow. Is great work.

short and sweet. nuff said.

Each shot is short, but you oughtta see the whole thing. .x

I cant wait to see all this together! I know how time consuming animation is, for im starting to work on a project myself.

Ooh cool, I wanna see when you get some done! :D

Ya i was thinking of doing something funny, i would have a voice over from a part in a movie from somewahre, but i would want to animate it with my own char's.

And now I realize why they stop after a couple seconds.

LOL awesome.

my god you have no idea how much i love that walk cycle in the beginning. wonderful stuff. cant wait to see this done.

The walk cycle turned out better than intended! He's actually 'slipping' in place, kinda' like MC Hammer's running man (which is what the move was originally supposed to be) - but it works. :D

yeah i love that. it has a lot of pop and its very alive. you inspire me to animate so bad haha. must get toonboom XD

Really, any software designed specifically for digital 2D animation will work as well...Flash is a little vague, but all the others seem to do well! :D

Funny part is, this shot is basically one of my college animation courses. Walk cycle, run, heavy lift, trip and fall...
With some lipsync mixed in too :D

dude i saw the whole thing in one final shot last night it was great

Thankyas!

I really wanted to ask you if this was for a school assignment? I haven't read all of your descriptions ^^;

No, I'm out of school, trying to learn what they should've taught me. ;)

rofl, what school?

Art Institute of Pittsburgh

School of Visual arts here X3 This is a good idea, creating a film to understand everything. I think things absolutely clicked as I worked on my thesis. How long have ya been at this? (I still have to color my own film...)

This is excellent.

that's sum pretty awesome animation.

Cute