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.

A New Addition for Class of 2422: Aika Koizumi

Remember I made a post awhile ago saying how crazy it would be if I added a new character to the main cast of Class of 2422 this late into its development?

Well crazy's here!

Just when I thought that I had the main cast totally finished and set in stone, we have a new character to introduce! Meet Aika Koizumi (小泉 愛佳), a Japanese student that transferred to Codik High School in an exchange program for her final year of study.

Her creation comes from a place of necessity. Even though the main characters are Robert and Marilyn, I came to the realization that because the supporting characters are mostly relationship-oriented with Robert, Class of 2422's story is primarily Robert's story.
Of course, the supporting characters also have relationships with Marilyn, but not in a strong sense as with Robert. I realized that I didn't have a character that was tailored for Marilyn, so from that void I created Aika. I wanted Marilyn to have a friend she can hang out with and talk to about her interests and bring out Marilyn's personality; she needed a good gal pal that's not mixed up with the main "will they, won't they" story.

Why make the new character Japanese?