#animation stuff

[winter-doggo]

I did not know this was what Apollo's voice training sounded like but thank you to this (Japanese) decade-old audio of him and Klavier talking about Gyakuten Orchestra stuff for introducing me. I don't know what I expected haha

anyway i spent like 2 weeks figuring out how to somewhat animate it and that was a journey and a half but I learned a lot!!

[leapdayowo]

Okay the the sculk sensor purring has been on my mind cuz it’s just such a cute idea, and so I finally committed to animating it! Maybe over the summer when I have more time I’ll go back and animate Tanguish breathing softly and helsknight brush through tanguish’s hair, but for now this is what I could do :D the sculk noise kind of sounds more like snoring than purring, but since he’s sleepy I think it works, hope y’all enjoy!

[xpi3]

I started doing this in early July, I finally finished it, I know it's crooked, but at least it's FINISHED, SO HERE WE GO-##8-&

[laroldtheheralddd]

Everyone loves tail Polly but we have to give some love for Yaretzi too, they can be tail buddies (sorry mort you can’t be included here)

Version without text under the cut

Also an appearance of Polly without his jacket since the tail usually gets hidden when he’s wearing it

Feel free to use this for stuff if you want just be sure to give credit

Aw man forgot the sparkles and text were on the same layer, maybe I’ll add a third version with the sparkles but without the text later

[artoflured]

Concept art for my segment in an animation set to David Bowie’s Starman.

[bobokitty]

This question has been twiddling in my mind for a hot minute now but, what's a layout artist's role in the 2D animation pipeline? Coz I noticed it the in in-between stage of storyboards and animatics (or sometimes after depending on the flow chart, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong tho)

Is there a crossover with draw-over artists/animation correction/animation clean-up with that role or is it a completely separate thing? I just know there's a lot of being on model and making sure things are proportionate🤔

That's a great question!!

So, the role "Layout Artist" is not something that is typical in a US animation production. Powerhouse is a bit of a unique animal in that department. For Powerhouse, a layout artist's role is similar to what one used to be in Japan. That is, layout is the stage between storyboards and animation.

Storyboards in Japan tend to be much much rougher than boards in the US, so the layout artist goes in and refines particular shots/panels to put it on model and fill out any bg/prop information that the animator would need. You can kind of think of it as doing key frames, but with detailed background information as well.

At Powerhouse, the layout artist will just focus on the characters. Specific shots are called out by the director and passed to them. From there, they go into the boards and put the select characters on model and will even add in lighting information depending on the scene. This is then treated as the key frames for the animators once the boards are passed off.

Typically, in US animation, you have board revisionists who go in and touch up boards before they are sent out. With the way cartoons tend to be, the art style is a lot more simplified, and you're not worrying about highlights and 2nd and 3rd tones. Maybe that's kind of like a layout artist at Powerhouse? Eh, doesn't quite feel right. They're both different beasts.

As for drawovers/animation corrections, that's work typically done in post. Again, I think this is a little more unique to Powerhouse than your typical US production. At this stage, the animation is already done, so the artists are fixing what's there or redrawing keys and sending it back for the rest to be fixed. You got inbetweens now to worry about and make sure work in motion (if you're lucky, there's a pretty layout to work off of, and you just grab that and drop it in for the keys cuz sometimes outsourcers kind of...ignore it and give you something worse lol).

Every production is kind of different, and in my opinion, it's good to allow a level of flexibility to try and make things as smooth as possible. Something that works for like, Gravity Falls (was rewatching that last week; great show), is not going to work for Castlevania. What works for Castlevania is not going to work for like, The Simpsons. Ya get it, right?

Hope that answers your question!

[personinthepalace]

Prince Merlin's solo fight scenes - Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs

(the youtube link is sadly blocked in the UK and Ireland :/)

[dicendelirio]

Lil head turn exercise :D

[owltypical]

thinking about the fleischer studios stereoptical camera process, as one does

[thatrobotkid]

rj sketches for the pilot

courtesy of billy and mandy creator, maxwell atoms

source: instagram

[rogers-attic]

also love this transition/4th wall break too :))

[leapdayowo]

It’s done :3

I might adjust the sound, but otherwise it’s done! The assignment was to do a transformation from one thing into another in 12 frames, so clearly snail to alligator pipeline was the way to go :3

❗️Also! They do need names, so leave some recommendations!

Also also, here’s a bit behind the scenes (it might take away the magic though, so you have been warned👀)

Alligator from the side that is seen:

Alligator from the side that isn’t seen:

[xpi3]

Hi there!

My name is Xpi3 [or just xpi for short], she/he I can go by anyone, I don't really care about that tho

I'm minor, drawing stuff and stupid things

I'm Russian so I can make mistakes in words [sorry about that]

DNI [DoNotInteract] :

- weirdos or just a bad person

- Zøøphiles, Pedøphiles and Prøshippers [please leave.]

My social medias:

Discord: .blinamalina

Twitter: @xpi_333

Other blogs :

@ihyluigi - IhyLuigi blog [active]

@lgbl0g - LG blog [active]

@boomchacalakaa - Second account [I don't use it anymore]

@beta-lu1gi - BetaLuigi blog [I don't use it too]

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[featureenvyproductions]

Tiny ramble abt the music I'm doing for my new animation thing

I know I don't really talk much about the music for my animations. I mean I'll mention it kinda. Like that I wrote something or borrowed some public domain thing. But I don't think I post about it. Part of it is like I don't want to get people's expectations up too high for something. I'm not really a musician I just know a lot about music and I can play some instruments kinda but I NEED TO MAKE YOU UNDERSTAND I AM NOT A PERFORMER. It's kinda like acting idk I just have never been a spotlight kinda person so I always looked at music as kind of a tool for me more than a thing to perform. SO THAT BEING SAID WHEN I TELL YOU THE OTHER INFO IN THIS POST YOU GOTTA GO EASY ON ME OK IM TRYin to have some background music I'm not trying to be a rock star or anything

Ok now that the hefty disclaimer is out of the way

So the other week when I was seeing the sleeping beauty ballet, I was actually doing Research TM to see what Tchaikovsky does for all the emotional highs and lows bc even though it's a basic ass plot like it's still got them and I am a basic ass excuse for a musician so I needed something Easy Mode for inspiration

Well while I was there realizing there isn't a goddamn way on the face of the earth I can achieve the same grand sound without an orchestra, it DID occur to me that his entire score is in the public domain (even despite Disney's efforts to make that Not the case anymore btw - they get to keep ownership of their lyrics, that's it). And so I was like. Instead of hand drawing 15 minutes of animation and writing 15 minutes of score from scratch, I actually CAN TECHNICALLY use this.

But I don't just want to like rip some recording...Copyright is a little fuzzier in that area.

And also if you know me you know the two primary things about me are 1) idk how to fucking not do everything myself this is my toxic trait and i am going to claim i get one toxic trait as a treat and 2) i cant act for shit and that includes voice acting so this is gonna be a silent movie

SO What I decided to do since I have 15 minute of dead silence to fill is write music for some of it but for some of it ALSO just study the parts of sleeping beauty I like and arrange them for solo piano. :)

We'll see how it goes but there are a couple spots that translate ok.

Here's some of the stuff I started arranging today

This is from Act 1 part 8 d. Fun fact you can actually find the original score here https://imslp.org/wiki/The_Sleeping_Beauty_(suite),Op.66a(Tchaikovsky,_Pyotr)

which personally I think is real convenient and it's a hell of a lot easier to read the score while listening than to fucking guess at it

But there aren't piano arrangements of the parts I want, thus the stuff I started jotting down above.

here's me attempting to play it (badly and not at tempo....I need you to understand i just started writing this down like an hour ago,,,,,i will practice more i promise)

As you can see I kinda cheated a little and switched some octaves but like man I only have so many hands and also can I just say violas are like the Dr doofenschmirtzes of the orchestra huh. Like if they were babies and composers were their parents their parents wouldn't show up to their birth like that's what I'm getting at.

[randommothxd]

Short animation of Wahooo

Noself eepy😴