Hold shit man, you rock at this. : D

Lots of practice! Last year of school, I picked up Toonboom, which has let me clock a lot more frames animating.

Like Kimon Nicolaides (the teacher whose syllabus is the basis for most good drawing courses) said, "The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes, the sooner you will be able to correct them."

That was good.

kthx

Wow, that movement was just perfect with the song, hah, totally lovin' that.

Ba-da-ba ba baaa, I'm lovin' it |D

Took a little bit of tweaking to get exactly the right frames to hit the accents on, but most of it's pretty easy - just tracking which sound plays on which frame - same way I do the lipsync. :3

And yes, The Passion of the Fruit. XD

i wish this was longer

:( I'm workin' on it, I'm workin' on it! D:

The song is 3 minutes long, that's around 2700 drawings x.x

OMG you can do it!!!

Only thing I don't like is that I have to refresh to play it again. |D <3

You can just right-click and hit rewind.

And yes, awesome. Top performances here. I'm really digging how approriate it is to have a chorus of Citras singing this considering the slight chorus effect there is on Mika's voice.

I yam tooooo lazy to add flash buttons to preview renders. |B

You can just hit "play" in the context menu though, it's basically just got an instruction on the last frame to stop the playhead instead of doing what flash normally does (loop).

This will look amazing when it's all put together!

Yus!

oh wow... can't want for the whole thing to get done and be put together.. just.. wow...

Me either. x.X

pretty smooth XD I like it :3

Lots and lots and lots of drawings. :B

yay! Great to see more. :) IT continues to be filled with cute and squee.

Citra JAZZ HANDS :D

Everything is better with jazzhands!

Possibly especially Citras.

Bows before you "you are good at what you. I offer you a foot or tail rub?"

ach type from hell

Yaaaay! Loks awesome and best part is YOU'RE COMING BACK! :D *huuugs tight* I miss ya, get back quick so you can freeze with the rest of the nation XD

But I *like* low-70s degree weather and easy access to swimming without admission prices! D: (Though everything costs 25-50% more here )

But yes, yay, I will be back, and can resume work on my 3D printer. :3

*squees and fanboys atcha!*

Oooo. That's rather neat looking right there =D. A lotta frames!

*drawdrawdrawdrawdrawdrawdrawdrawdraw* ..x

Heheh, looks good so far; very nice.

Thank you for sharing this with us all. Keep up the goodness, and may you have good fortune upon all of your creative endeavors.

Don't say goodbye. Say Good Journey. :B

I don't like saying good-bye. It's like a signifier for never seeing someone again, too "permanent." I prefer "Peace Out," if anything.

^_^

I'm so excited to see this completed! I love it! Their gestures are so adorable!

I wanna see it completed!

I just saw the other two you posted, they're so fantastic!!! It's really coming along great!

.... You went to Hawaii without telling me ? I didn't even know you were gone!!!

Oh pfft, I got you a souvenir. :p I figured most folks wouldn't notice a week. :B

impressive

ffflawless victory.</mortal_kombat-voice>

o.O

I love the Jesus pose. It's awesome...and original. I'd pay for that cell...if there was a cell.

The Passion Of the Citra?
The Passion of the Fruit? XD

It's a digital file that only one program can read. :p Besides, you can probably use SWFtools or something to extract that frame, if you really want a copy of it. o.O

Nah, I don't like to rip other peopele's artwork off. I'm a starving artist, so I know what it's like

Like the work, though.

Tis Awesome.

Dude this is Fuckiung Awesome i cant wait to see it fully finished

Me either. Waugh. x.X

i cant wait to see it done i want to watch it over and over agian ^^

o.o this is so awesome i cant wait till its put all together!

I really like this. Whenever I do animations I have a really hard time keeping them all looking the same from frame to frame when I'm doing.. er.. frame-by-frame.. *blinks* But then again, I have a hard time doing that in comic panels too.. is there a trick to it? I haven't exactly gone to school for it, we spent a week in my high school computer art class on animating in flash and the teacher had NO idea what was what.. She spent the first day teaching us how to make (with tweening) a ball bounce, and she didn't even understand the "ease" tool so the thing she made just looked like a circle zigzagging across the screen, with a "thud" sound effect. I taught her more about photoshop than she ever taught me.. but anyway.. yeah, is there a trick to it, or is it just a skill you have to develop?..

Also, I really really like how you have TWO people singing the harmony, whereas in some animations they have one person singing it.. it always seemed lazy to me to do it that way.. Ooooh, you have such TALENT. I'm jealous. ;_;

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0571202284/

All you need.

Though if you wanna spend $1000 more, http://www.theanimatorssurvivalkit.com/ (Or just watch the videos on the website)

From the way you've described it - are you doing the frames sequentially? It's a good idea to start with the keyframes/extremes - those are the drawings that outline the extents of the story/action. Place them in time, then you can fill in all the middle drawings (those are best on straight-ahead runs once you can see where you're going - makes stuff flow better.)

Oh man. I have a birthday in two months. I'm totally bothering my family to get that for me, in addition to the new tablet pen I asked for.. ( dog ate the old one >.> )

Huh.. I did some of my animations in sequence, but a few days ago I made an icon for myself that had frames done like you're saying. <.< Huh. I guess I should keep doing that..

*watches the other flashes, AND the one on youtube* W-o-o-o-w. I can't wait to see it when it's done.. *stares a little* ... <3

See also: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1030069/ (keyframes for this shot)

And yah, it's supposed to be multiple voices, so why not? :D

I had all these animations stuck in my head during my class today. Awesome stuff.

wow your skills are wonderful!

Thankyas!

Awesome job so far, just curious though, is it going to stay sketchy like this, or are you going to fill it completely in when you finish the entire thing?

Depends on how much work I feel like doing after I finish animating everything in sketchiness.

Wow. I don't know what else to say. This is simply awesome! I am eagerly awaiting the continuation & completion of this video. You are so full of awesome!

You've really been doing great with these. I must point out how great you've done with the hand motions at the part when they say "...she wants more.."

Yes! My second atttempt at using a 'stagger' animation, and this one worked a lot better :D

Nice idea ^ ^ I think so too. Wasn't the last time with the group dancing with the streamers?

No, the last 'stagger' I used was the laugh on the opening shot. :)

Hm. Could you refresh my mind on how a stagger works, please? I think I might have the wrong idea in mind.

Sure! You create two breakdowns for a pair of keys, in two alternate positions, then animate half the needed number of frames through each, then interleave the two animations. The result is a shaking or stagger animation. They used it all the time in the old looney tunes animations, when a character would eat earthquake pills, or get hit in the head and 'ring' like a gong.

OH!! That makes loads of sense ^ ^ thank you for bringing me to the light =D

Would you say that your using the same methods of animation as those who animated the looney toons?

Okay, now the last comment you put left me confused again. Sorry ^ ^,

In this case, I created two starting frames for the "more!" pose, each with the hand tipped differently, and animated each down to the final 'holding' pose. Then interleaved them, so their hands flutter back and forth on each frame.

woahu were in hawaii? x3 i live in hawaii xD

this has to be my favorite part of the animation <33333333 My bf introduced me to this on youtube and I had to find you xD... I won the game damnit :>.... where's my pie?

It's my favorite too. XD

Coz they're so fruity and gamey in this one-
My all time favorite key is the one you might spot several times in the concept drawings for this shot - "The Passion of the Citra" - on the line "Jesus loves her" when Lime falls back like he's crucified, and Lemon catches him and sets him back on his feet. :D

I just love the movement of the ears when they sing "Take a look at the girl next door" x3 very well animated =3 hope you continue this~ cause you're really good at it ^^