im posting this at a suboptimal time of day because im embarrassed of posting ocxcanon but i spent like a significant amount of time on it so im posting it anyway.
and hey heres some more random animations i havent posted because i didnt feel like it was enough to be one post
'Reclaimed' - Just a bit of fun with looping animated backgrounds. Been a bit busy lately and animation is taking longer than it usually does, so I thought I'd post this one up in the meantime - don't worry, more paleoart is still on its way!
This animation is home to 7 little animals (not including the trail of ants)
As reference I used this pages from a Sonic IDW comic recopilation I have, and my experience drawing the character (search Hopeless future comic chapter 1 and 2 for example).
Silver is specially hard to animate not only because of his hair shape, but because of the lack of public oficial reefsheets he have. This is probably due to the fact that he NEVER has apeared on a TV show or media. Like for example "Sonic X".
----------------2.Rought pass---------------
The most important part of any 2D animation: start very VERY simple so you don't die trying to animating. (But first the storyboard. This animation was planed since a lot of time and that's why it doesn't apear here but I also made a storyboard for the ocasion. It is lost on some sketchbook so that's why is not apearing on this Making of 😅
The "K" on some frames are for mark the Keyposes, the rest are inbetweens.
Is the first time on decades that I use the timing charm too. As you can see, the character movements are slowest when the animation is finishing, as the timing charm is marking.
-------------3.Rought animation------------
Once the Rought pass was done, I used it as a base for create a more detailed sketch. Here you can already recognice the character
------------------4.Cleanup------------------
This was the most tedious and time-consuming part of this animation (And I think it is on all the 2D animations). Because cleanup is not about creating, it is about refining what already exists, taking care that the original message remains intact and at the same time is clear and better understood than the sketch. My back still hurts.
I made the the breakdown frame to stay more time too.
This wasn't the final cleanup, just the version after aplying some corrections.
---------------5.Final render-----------------
The background + the efects + the colors and such. This is the animation over the "read more" thing.
The background here and the efects was completely improvised using the features that Opentoonz provided.
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-This animation took only 5 hours to be made and it was started and finished literaly today 10/August/2024
-The intention on this animation was to show how Silver take out his ears for listen things due that in some versions of him, you can't see his ears normaly.
-Everything was animated on the program "Opentoonz". An open source program that was used by Studio Gilbi.
-I also discovered that there's a way to make an anime filter there but I never tried it.
Here's the animation I did for the @murderbot-fanimation-project!
The scene is from the All Systems Red, when Murderbot is choking Gurathin in the medbay and Mensah deescalates. I did this by recording two videos of myself, one from behind holding a cosplay against a door and one as I held on to a chin-up bar. I didn't rotoscope them, but I did look closely to them as reference as I worked.
Credit for the background goes to @chimaerakitten!
Credit to the characters' designs goes to @broken-risk-assessment-modulen
The scene this is from is behind the cut.
Gurathin said, “We don’t have to trust you. We just have to keep you immobilized.”
Right, funny thing about that. “That won’t work.”
“And why is that?”
I rolled off the table, grabbed Gurathin by the throat and pinned him to the wall. It was fast, too fast for them to react. I gave them a second to realize what had happened, to gasp, and for Volescu to make a little eek noise. I said, “Because HubSystem lied to you when it told you I was immobilized.”
Gurathin was red, but not as red as he would have been if I’d started applying pressure. Before anyone else could move, Mensah said, calm and even, “SecUnit, I’d appreciate it if you put Gurathin down, please.”
She’s a really good commander. I’m going to hack her file and put that in. If she’d gotten angry, shouted, let the others panic, I don’t know what would have happened.
I told Gurathin, “I don’t like you. But I like the rest of them, and for
some reason I don’t understand, they like you.” Then I put him down.
I stepped away. Overse started toward him and Volescu grabbed his shoulder, but Gurathin waved them off. I hadn’t even left a mark on his neck.
+BST Project: Jonathan Crane character design stuff -- The 360° head turn test, the head turn chart made from that test, and the updated animation test using the new model specs. This took a lot of trial and error and a lot of studying, but I'm satisfied with it now :) Animated in OpenToonz.
And goodness do I LOVE animating in OpenToonz!!!!!!
Full animatic will be up on my tiktok in however many days/weeks it takes to complete, but warning it will contain MAJOR spoilers for one of my fics :D