March Animation Practice - Insult to Injury

Back with another late-as-hell animation!

The main focus for this one was to animate a character walking in a z-axis path, like walking from afar to close up to us. I've never animated a walk cycle like that, and I think I've made a decent first attempt? How do you think I did?

And of course, those are my vocals at play for both characters.

I sort of gotten a grasp of animating a walk cycle going towards the camera; I know there's probably a small couple of details I missed for doing a walk cycle in general, but overall it doesn't look bad, off-putting, or too unnatural.

Welp! Off to start on April's animation!

Quarter of a Century Old

Hey ho! Today's that day again!

Can you believe it? I'm now a quarter of a century old!

Let's celebrate that with this pretty cool-looking quarter!

On an unrelated note, I'm launching a new cryptocurrency.

February Animation Practice - Real World Escape

February's animation? In June? How late am I???????? (Don't answer that)

Yeeeeeah, I know I'm very late on this one. AND on top of that, I have to do March, April, May, and June's animation to be up-to-date.

What can I say? Things have gotten pretty busy these past few months. Now that the dust has kinda settled, it's time to go into TURBO MODE.

But before I do, I want to present February's animation! Shot in my own room!

I'm still set in being experimental for this year's set of animations, so for this one I wanted to execute the idea of a digital character going into our analog world, which involved some stop motion work.

The animation/camera work for the stop motion bit is pretty rough, but I wasn't aiming for perfection; I wanted to try something new and see if I can pull it off, and I think it's pretty competent!

Just like with January's animation, the original idea/length of the animation was longer in concept, but I had to cut corners to speed up the process. Even after that, I had to go in and cut out even more corners to really be able to have a finished video for today's posting.

The stop motion part was heavily cut short to save time while the 2D animation's original beginning had to be entirely scrapped in favor of something more simple and easier to complete.

The final video wouldn't exist if I didn't have my brother and friend helping me out with this one! I had my brother to help snap the photos while I had a friend of mine help out with some video editing work, so a big thanks to those two!

Now I'm off to start March's animation!

Have a Daisy

Hey! As I'm sure you noticed, the monthly animations have been put on hold.

I'll get back to them once I get things in order around here.

Oh boy, that's a ton of catching up to do.

In the meantime, I drew up a neat drawing of Daisy! I'll also throw in the process of the drawing from beginning to end.

I had a bit of a breakthrough some time ago when it came to developing the personalities of certain side characters and Daisy was caught in the cross fire.

I'll admit, I've given some characters more development and attention than others and Daisy was just one of those characters that was left out...until recently.

I've been having a ton of fun figuring who Daisy really is and I wanted to draw up a nice drawing of her casually coasting on her skateboard while listening to music and browsing social media. I'm sure we'll see more Daisy around here once I get more free time.