June Animation Practice - Android Repair

Hey, I got this one done with decent timing! We're still in the first week of July!

After looking through my list of characters I haven't animated yet, I initially decided to take care of two of them at once: Kate and Kevin. However, the two are from different story series and it wouldn't make much sense to mix the two right now (even thought they both take place in the same universe), so I replaced Kevin with Robert.

I've animated Robert before, in case anyone forgot that.

Despite advancements in A.I. and technology in the future, androids still need human assistance for repairs. Robert's always open to help Kate out, and the results are shocking

This one took me about a week to complete. I really wanted to finish this quickly so I sort of rushed the rough animation for this one. I totally paid the price for that since it was more difficult to do the final line work, with unadjusted timing for certain movements and placements of certain elements being off after refinement.

I like how it came out! I really try to make time to do the final line work and color for these animations since the end result looks like completed animation for television.

Speaking of which, I've thought about using one of these months to go back on an old monthly animation to either redo it or to fully complete it. Not sure if it's a good idea to do so, but we'll see. After all, we have have six more months left for 2020!

Another Frame, Another Birthday!

It's that day again!

That's a lotta frames!

May Animation Practice - Mandy's Makeover

What a month! Good thing I've got something to help take a load off from the craziness!

I have yet another month of animation practice to present here!

Best friends don't try to change each other, a lesson Sally was happy to learn:

After the weirdness of trying to adjust to Toonboom from April's animation, I had the original intention to post May's animation in a rough, unfinished-looking state.

Once completed however, I figured what I had was pretty good enough to give it a polish, so I spent another extra week with clean-up and coloring. And plus, with having that finished animation of Danny and Daisy back in January, I've been wanting to do another piece of TV-ready-looking kind of animation!

I also realized early on that this is my first time animating Sally; it's so great to finally give her proper life and movement!

All in all, I really like the end result of this one! I think I'm slowly getting the hang of using Toonboom.

April Animation Practice - Bank Blast

Hey! Man, Blogger really changed behind the scenes. It's weird as hell.

Anyways! I held out on posting April's animation because I wanted to finish the clean line version, but with some school stuff getting in the away, general Toonboom-acting-stupid nonsense, and the time it's gonna take to actually finish the final version, I decided the cut my loses and post the animation as is.

Still not too bad for it being half completed!

I'm still in that stage of getting the hang of Toonboom so I've been having issues with the program, but I think I have to keep chugging along and continue using the program, no matter how much painful it can be.

Doing an animation this long was probably a bit too ambitious in the early stages of using a program like this for the first time, so I'm gonna try to dial it back in terms of length in the future. Keep word: "try."

Then again, that rotoscoping animation was also pretty ambitious, so who knows? It's already mid May, so I have to definitely scale back in length to get something done on time.