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Dragons 2 of them update
🕑 Added 2023-05-02 20:33:33 +0000 UTCLately I've been feeling down about my animation skills. Like, I want to embrace cartoonish animation more, I want characters to feel more malleable and dynamic, like I want to push the actions further and try making things have more feeling to it.
For example, in this animation, I wanted to start off by showing Jet snout-deep in some dragon hole and then he pulls his face out. I was thinking about how can I make this connect more deeply with my audience? What can I do to express this idea in a way that's more visceral and weighty? Then I thought it'd be fun to do a slow motion type scene, where there's some pretty extreme smear frames that are "felt, not seen"
I think it ended up working pretty well, especially with that part where we can see the energy of the face pull out rippling across the hole. I'm happy to say that was manually animated, took a bit to get right but I'm happy with the result!
Like I said in the last post, I want to go next-level with this one... and part of that has been doing a few other things to try learn more stuff. I did this trot cycle to try adding in some more subtle squash/stretch.
And also I was experimenting with something else for something else (I'll post about it later eventually) and made this mouse cursor wait icon but with some squash/stretch/smearing when it flips over. I'm not much of a 2d animator but I feel like I took away something useful from doing this tiny pixel art animation.
Also, I recently got the Animators Survival Kit and it inspired me to finally try a bouncing ball. Honestly, I thought it would be easy enough (like as if I'm some hot shot big brain animator) but it was actually a bit challenging.
I was way too aggressive on the squash/stretch- attempt 2 I'll try to be more subtle about it. But honestly, just from this quick exercise, I feel like I learned a lot.
So yeah, re-thinking the way this dragon mating animation should go, like it's the same main idea (two dragons going at it) but I'm redoing stuff. I've attach the original, outdated, very rough animatic I made for now though.
Comments
Velocirection
He's stretchy~
Velocirection
Yeah it can be incredibly difficult to stay motivated on a project, especially when you're by yourself, I will say what usually sparks my motivation is learning something new or trying out a different medium (though sometimes I get an idea in my head and can't think about anything else until I try making it happen but that can be annoying >_>). I don't know of any telegram or discord chats about animation though, if you find one let me know!
Ormi
really love how malleable the asshole is on that dragon
vincent
if i were that little dragon i would be careful that the horse don't slip on the trendmill and finish in it's big donut by accident
Yevhen, The Immortal Dragon
<3
Starmaninja
I know how you feel, this stuff isnt easy. I get stressed thinking about it, but mostly cause it feels so lonely working on these things. Im trying to network with other talented 3d animators but theyre hard to find. Just for companionship and motivation.
