#anime pre-production

[nicecrumbart]

Finally settled on my codfather Jimmy design! Adding all the details was so fun tehe (try and spot them!)

Other empires designs I'm working on: Scott | Lizzie (WIP)

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Taarna animation drawings and cels - Heavy Metal (1981)

[cubbyhole-for-flea-bee]

Some lmk monkey studies (+ my notes and self-critiques) except I swapped monkeys for my reference poses nyehehehehe

i keep drawing the heads the wrong size :/

[chrisrin]

half the song’s boards are preeettyy much done! (YIPPEE!!) later half is going to be more action-y and dynamic (MANIFESTING) so itll prolly take me longer but im on solid pace rn with it

[gvnuzi]

Waste, waste away in the gutter with me. No, I can’t tell what is fake in my reality

I forgot to post this um 😭

If u know this song let’s make out

[foxaroundthenight]

• • • EILEEN CHAN

Though Eileen dawns a serious and stubborn image, in truth she is easily swayed by others. Having followed the set path laid out by her parents since birth, she is not one to hold much personal ambition. That is, until she is unable to get an annoying fox to leave her alone and for once makes a decision for herself: she must take matters into her own hands by becoming a spirit hunter.

[brbgensokyo]

anyone serious about anime needs to watch magipokka to at least why its a brainmelter nearly two decades on

[goyejo]

Hello Tumblr! With all the awfulness going on with Instagram and Meta I want to start uploading the insanely large backlog of art I have here😭 I think it’s almost 3 years worth of stuff but we’ll get through it! Thanks to those who have stuck around here and hopefully we can find some solace in Tumblr for now! To start us off I have a little character design dump from 2022 or so.

[slimecpu]

Very rough animation here - Dr. Fennel instructed Sylvie to use her magic to "make a cloud".

Animated at 10 fps

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

THE KOOKY, KITSCHY, OFF-BEAT EVOLUTION OF LAIKA'S PREMIERE SILVER SCREEN GRRRL.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on assorted concept art and/or character designs for Coraline Jones, the titular character from the 2009 stop motion animation film titled "Coraline," produced by Laika and Pandemonium, and directed by Henry Selick. Artwork by Shane Prigmore.

THE STORY: "While exploring her new home, a girl named Coraline discovers a secret door, behind which lies an alternate world that closely mirrors her own but, in many ways, is better. She rejoices in her discovery, until Other Mother and the rest of her parallel family try to keep her there forever. Coraline must use all her resources and bravery to make it back to her own family and life."

-- CHARACTER DESIGN REFERENCES/ART OF ANIMATION

Source: https://characterdesignreferences.com/art-of-animation-3/coraline.

[askstrangeweird]

Every once in a while I can make art I really like... Hope you like it too!

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Alice in Wonderland - Concept art by Mary Blair (1951)

[k00325247]

Animation ideas

We were told to spend 20mins writing down ideas w could use for an animation. The only dead had to have something to do with movement so it was a little hard coming up with ideas. Especially relating them back to my theme.

I eventually landed on a couple having a somewhat heated conversation. There is gonna be no dialogue instead the colours and shaped if the speech bubbles are meant to convey the tone of the conversation.

Hopefully everything goes well.

Literally have no idea what gif to use

[faustinio27]

Guess who finished her micro-movie project?? 🥳🥳🥳

[pipii]

LONG POST! 💫The main character of Little Things always had a sheep esque design, even before having any meaning/adding in the sheep plushie at the end. As production went on, the sheep design came to symbolize a lamb walking towards its own slaughter. The character had to be simplified a few times. Colors were pretty difficult to choose, turquoises and blues were symbolic of life in the film, so I originally wanted to keep their hair blue, but pink was supposed to be symbolic of this "spirit realm". I went with the pinkish brown hair for the cohesiveness and also because SPOILER, the character isn't dead or alive and is somewhere in between. Plus the blue was more of an indigo anyways.

💫OKAY AND THE MONSTERS

I meant for watchers to either wonder what the monster's motives were or just think they were cute with randomly designed accessories - why are they determined to help MC? Do they want to eat them? Are they just cute little guys? Etc.

Animating 10+ characters was never going to be easy. I designed the monsters to all have the same base body shape with small changes like height. That way, it wouldn't feel like you were animating all 9 different monsters and instead it would feel like just 1. Personality traits were added which would tie into the family portrait during the void sequence, while also allowing clean-up/detailing to give the individuality. Plenty went into the designs themselves, but that will take forever to go over.

💫I'm very much an animator at heart, but I think this experience has given me more confidence and has made me realize that I actually do enjoy concept work. I love designing, but struggle with stagnancy which is why I struggle with turnarounds.

If you enjoy these BTS recaps, I have a Little Things page on my portfolio that you can check out!

[foxaroundthenight]

• • • LAURA WU

Laura’s eyes peer deeply like empty voids holding concealed multitudes. She was once Eileen's closest friend, but that Laura was different: her eyes twinkled. Now reborn, her past life is barely an afterthought. Her eyes look straight ahead, consumed by her art⎯⎯her overwhelming ambition.