Here’s one of those random experimental things I do sometimes. I drew Reimu and Marisa on paper, and I decided to scan it and trace over it with the line tool (I usually use the brush tool) and bucket tool, and then I removed the lines. The walk cycle sorta reminds me of this, because… it’s not that good. Anyway, I’m not really planning on doing anything with these graphics, it’s just something I felt like doing. Here‘s what they look like with lines, if you’re wondering.
No way, that’s impossible! Refer to this post if you don’t know what’s going on. I was going to make an fully-animated version (kinda like this; compare it to this), but it took awhile to get the regular frames to sync, so I was just like “ehh, I’ll just… leave it.” Maybe some other time.
So I decided to animate Suika doing something (something that will be in the next Touhou flash, whenever that gets finished), and I noticed it looks sorta like a dance, so I made this. Gif versions can be found here and here.
Here’s the finished comic (without a title page, because I didn’t get to do one)! I added a bunch of checkered tiles to the classroom scenes as a suggestion from the instructor, and I think it turned out quite nicely. I also added text, although most of it seems unnecessary (I do, however, like how the dialogue and backgrounds turned out in the sixth page). I also erased most of the pencil marks and added random dots to the beach scenes to make it look more like an actual beach. With sand.
And here is the final animation for the class! I ended up using an excessive amount of motion tweens rather than frame-by-frame animation, because I just felt it would look a lot smoother that way. Well, that and the fact that animating with motion tweens is a lot faster and this was our last day to work on it. Tomorrow, there’s gonna be a show where they’ll display everyone’s work (from all the different art programs). I added in the play button and Walfas.org link when I got home, but in the actual show, all of our animations will be played one after the other, with the mouse entering and leaving each one.
In today’s morning class, we had an activity where we had to interview a partner about their family and draw a picture and ink it. I’d scan it, but I don’t have it with me, because my partner liked it and wanted to keep it. After that, we got to work on our comics. I finished inking two pages in class, and finished the rest at home. I still have to erase some of the pencil marks and make a title page, but I’ll have time to do that tomorrow in class. My sharpie started losing its… uhh… inkiness after a few pages, so the outlines for the later pages seem a bit lighter.
In the afternoon class, I got about half of the “Matrix-dodge” animation done, and since tomorrow’s the last day we get to work on these in class, I did the rest of it at home. I also kinda started coloring, but most of that will probably be done tomorrow. The plan here is to have the bullet hit a tree branch, causing the cat and mouse to fall. Unnamed Character will jump to save the animals, but they end up falling on top of her and running off into the distance.
We also had a guest speaker: Max Porter from an animation company called Tiny Inventions. He showed us some of his animations and talked about his career and some projects of his. He is attempting to create a childrens’ TV show, and showed us an example of one of the possible episodes. The cool thing is, if it does eventually appear on TV, I can be like “Oh, I knew about that show before it even came out” and stuff. Yeah, it was pretty cool.
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