#i havent done 3d animation

[vanillaxoshi]

Wow your blog is the first to mention the logical side of Beliung's change in design

There needs to be a study about how people on twitter let out emotion and lets it fester than trying to find reason

Twitter

Also, if you like look into 3d animators talking bout the behind the scenes of their works

The bending of the models would look pretty horrifying or weird, and it would take perspective and lot of work to make it look normal at the least

Like with disney and rapunzels hair, there was a vid where they talk about how they had to no clip eugene's hand touching her hair cause they couldn't find a way to make it look normal, also talking about rapunzels hair and how long it took for them to recreate the hair physics, i think they also had to make a new program like what they did for merida's curls

And i dont really know how much time monsta takes for their animating, if they take it slow to make every reaction look normal or if they do it fast, and have to tweak the models to make it seem normal

And that depends now if they can properly do it since 3d programs have advanced a lot since then

[ascendingconures]

getting a little silly with blender. Made my blorbo 3d. i quite like how it turned out

[tealfruit]

it's really a shame I have to sell 40+ of my life hours every week for poverty wages instead of spending all my time and energy on dozens of creative and technical pursuits with unlimited resources

[seariii]

Oh no I just came up with an animatic idea for fuuta and Kotoko, but I've never animated anything and I don't have the skills for it, but the whole image of everything looks good and exciting

[bearofohu]

people on the professor layton subreddit are not using their brain right now i fear. "i havent seen a 2D animated cutscene in five minutes of first look footage and hino praised the upgrade in 3D animation compared to previous 3D layton titles that had notoriously bad 3D animation. this must mean we're never getting 2D cutscenes ever again despite professor layton never having done that since transition to 3D over a decade and a half ago"

[luckydoeslanguage]

Weekly Update | 四月23日２０２４年

こんばんは、みんな　(_　_)。゜zｚＺ

posting a little later than i usually do. This week has been more of the same, so there isnt too much to talk about. i debated waiting until next week, i dont want to break my habit :P Onto my updates:

Almost done the anime ive been watching. its a little slice of life called 'スーパーカブ', which follows a girl who buys a titular Honda super cub and her daily life. id say its a moe show, but it feels more down to earth than that. lots of motor vehicle vocab. when im done the show i want to post a review of it here so i'll save my comments til then.

started playing とびだせどうぶつの森 again in earnest. i started the save almost a year ago and it was kind of overwhelming at first but its more manageable now. I should really play more immersion games on 3DS.

i tried writing a letter to my favourite villager, マキバースタ. I sent her an ironing board cause i thought it would look good in her house :)

didnt start any manga :(. i looked around for some and didnt really decide on anything in the end.

i also spent a day looking into japanese magazine subscriptions cause i wanted to read some of the shoujo manga magazines. turns out shipping paper products to rural BC is expensive, so i didnt get any. :( womp womp.

didnt end up taking new cards on anki this week. i honestly avoided it all week until the last few days and even then it wasnt so bad. hopefully i can start taking 2 or 3 new cards a day tho i really want to.

im still sitting at about 5 hours of immersion in this week. hoping that starting a new show might help bump it up again.

I think thats all! i feel like now that April is coming to a close and im almost a month back to learning japanese i havent been able to make as much progress as id like. But! im glad to be learning consistently again.

see you all next week! またね！

[ashestospace]

Blog Introduction

Just realized I havent done one of these for this blog, so here you all go.

Hello, I am Alo/Ashe! I'm a 3d Computer Animator and the loser who runs this account. Born and raised Puerto Rican/Dominican, So English is not my first language.

If you follow me or have seen my content, this blog is specifically to share my Kuroshitsuji/Black Butler brain rot, which has plagued me for the past 13 years.

If anyone wants to check my writing blog from, like... 2022?? 2020? it has multi-fandom in it. Like HxH, Obeyme, etc

It's @ashestospace-fics there there's quite a lot to read. but be warned is mainly NSFW

I work on several things, but Kuroshitsuji has been one of the things that I have come to love fully into my adult years. My content ranges, but some of what you'll see most often are ships and au.

Mainships

Cielinny

Sebagnmey

Sebard

Sebmey

uhhh any adults with Sebastian at this point (ALMOST everyone)

Au's

MonsterAu

SwapAu

ModernAU

Meymaid AU

I also have an A03, where I have posted my story, Drop of Light, under my URL Ashestospace. I wrote and had takes I don't agree with anymore, of course, as I grew this past 13 years. So some content, if you ever do stumble, will most likely be outdated to my child's mind back in the day.

The story of my Oc Lucille and Ciel follows the theme of the main story of manga with divergence and new characters and scenarios.

DNI

Sebacielshippers

Any one just grossed with the damn kids in this series

I dont care for your excuses don't interact with me

[crowned--corvid]

HEY HEY HI Ive been entranced with your animation of the death row animation meme!! how did you do that kind of animation in blender? is there a tutorial you found or something like that? I havent been able 2 find anything yet...

HIIII HIIII!!! MAN that's an oldie but goodie, I still dig it after 1.5 years

Here's the video for those who haven't seen it

stuff abt how I do it is under the read more :3

SO, the animation is done as a combination of both shapekeys and rigging! I won't go in depth with shortcut keys n shit as it would make this post ALOT longer so bare with me as I try not to sound like I lost my mind.

Much like how one would do a tween animation, I make each part of the character. Earlier work of this tech like death row, I spread it around on one file, but you can save each part separately.

The next part is that I cut out the peice from the empty space with the knife tool. While it may be easier to just save the limb as it is, I usually work with a 1920x1080 canvas for composition planning AND helps me make good topology for the limb if I need to bend it a certain way.

Here's a diagram of what I mean. Each face/polygon has 4 points so I work it out by making a tube first before adding additional cuts.

From there I'll use the sub devision modifier and Amp it up to like 2-3 depending on how much you want it to bend/deform. YOU MAY NEED TO ADD MORE LOOP CUTS as the modifier WILL deform the textures. You can adjust to whatever till the textures aren't deformed and it's dense enough to your desires :]

FROM THERE I have two shapekeys, one where it deform her enough to look to the left and one where she's looking up. I just used the sculpt tools to get the desired effect-- that's why it looks like it's done in 3d but isn't! I also have a bone that rigs part of the mesh to give her an additional bounce. From there you can aniamte the value of the shapekeys as well as the bones itself!

From there you just need to layer them as if they're paper and rig em up! You can learn rigging on your own as I am SHIT at explaining that process- but know you don't need alot of bones! The spaces i have between the layers are REAAAALLY close. Not close that its ALL flat but enough so that it doesn't distort the sizing on camera (though you can change the mode to not show perspective lol)

While I don't have a demonstration of the keys, I do have the BTS look of the animation to prove its all layers

You could easily do this shit with Adobe after effects but that shit is HEAVYY and if you have QuickTime, its easy to render out transparent videos with blender :3

I do wanna make a video abt this if I ever make another animation with these methods-- hope this helps!

[furballfaggot]

my buddy convinced me to make an animal jam play wild account since it actually still gets proper updates and so far my feelings have been. mixed. overall i havent done nearly as much as anyone else bc my account has existed for maybeee 2 or 3 hours? so this is just my first impressions. im also kinda biased bc ive been playing animal jam classic for years and years and YEARS. back when 9 + 10 = 21 was still unironically funny and every cool kid in class read warriors. might update this post with extra thoughts as i go along! all opinions below the cut bc this is an absurdly long post

ive only played a few levels of overflow (and it might be because i played on expert because i Definitely have no overbearing hubris casting a shadow upon my better judgement) but the gem payout being higher than AJC for each level you complete is a very welcome change (2 gems times X number, seemingly determined by how long your path is, vs AJPWs i think it was like 5 gems times X number determined by how long your path is? either that or like 10. idk i blew a whole half hour on overflow alone and it was almost 6 AM by the time i finished so my brains kinda muddled)

also, membership has become far less of an overbearing nightmare monster for AJPW in comparison to AJC! thats a good thing! personally i think that membership just Shouldn't but thats because i think any monetarily-accessed subscription anythings just Shouldn't especially in this day and age. i got to go to the clothing store and buy things i liked and i didnt just have to longingly stare at the paywalled options like a maiden gazing out to sea and it felt great

dont like how theres so many fewer options for shopping for Like Everything but its a far more ambitious game than AJC what with everything being 3d modeled, and its got a younger target demo and theyre usually happy with whatever looks cool, so it checks out. haha. funny pun that was intended definitely. whats there is also pretty great and the den item options you get started off with are both way more cool and way more More than classic in its hayday. idk about the ajc starting den items now though i dug my old account from the ashes of who i once was when i decided to pick classic up again. i dont actually remember if you start with any den items in ajc now that i think about it i might be misremembering. that still means play wild has that point against classic though. shame theres no water animals but they could maybe possibly be added in an update pretty please wildworks if by some miracle youre reading this i am begging and pleadi

really my main issue so far is with how many things cost real-world money. theres next to nothing that requires a membership to even be bought aside from one members-only map location my buddy warned me about beforehand -- which, as a reluctant f2p since literally like 5th grade, ive been playing this game for Far too long, i do genuinely appreciate -- but boy oh boy you can sure tell this was mainly developed as a mobile game. there is so much pay-real-money-for-trinkets stuff and you just Cannot disable that menu. at least let me get rid of the little button that tells me i can spend the hard-earned bucks on moms credit card to get 1/4th the amount of animals of AJC man thats all i ask of this part

also this is largely unrelated but can i just say i DESPISE how many things are like "hi heres a welcome bonus :) oh but you need to pay like 3 bucks for it. yeah its usually 5 but for a Special New Player Like You? its a steal!" like thats not a welcome bonus thats an entry fee. i know thats like a paltry amount of money compared to most things Just Ever but its also coming from a guy whos family usually has zero money to spare

[riggedbones]

sorry to be someone who watches ten million reviews of animated movies i havent seen on youtube occasionally but. on one of said ten million reviews of wish someone commented, in response to the fact that people are disappointed that they were considering 2d animating wish and then decided against it, that disney no longer has the infrastructure for feature length 2d animation. and while i do think they have a point with that...

technology has progressed far enough that like, when considering things like them no longer having animation tables? no longer especially relevant tbh. like they probably have all of the tools they need to do 2d animation in terms of just raw materials digitally based on the fact that like. there are still 2d disney cartoons being made. so

i could see the argument being made that they dont have enough 2d animators anymore esp like, seasoned animators who have worked on multiple feature length films (idk maybe they actually have a lot still) but... man if they really wanted to i do not think it'd be especially hard to get experienced animators in. for a large variety of reasons. like as long as you have a good animation director who has experience with 2d i dont think it'd be that big of a challenge to go back if they just shuffled things around.

a lot of the basic animated movie process even in 3d does still start with 2d storyboards etc. etc. so if people are especially worried about like the more pre production work i really doubt it'd be significantly different from a 3d film. it was mentioned by some representative that they didnt go with 2d because it would limit camera movement (valid limitation of the medium but like idk how many drone shots do you need) and expression (no fucking idea what they meant by this one lmao 2d is way more naturally expressive) and like i think that is the only sort of thing they'd have to really make sure they were working around in pre production. I Guess.

so yea basically i think it was something that disney could've absolutely done but like... it would've been a huge risk that would've taken a lot of rearrangement and setup (less than ppl may think, but still a fair bit) so like ofc they aren't doing that. its disney. a decade into live action remakes.

[that--unusual-person]

we have three days left to get this week 1 animation done with 3D visuals in after effects, i ditched my old project to start a new one with deadlock transitioning to drift but i havent been able to get past this for 15 minutes

[spikeinthepunch]

its been a hot minute since i watched anything other than youtube but i decided to uh. watch trigun stampede? which wasnt exactly bc of the story or even characters. its the first 3d cgi anime i have picked up. and i havent avoided them on purpose- honestly in general i am super picky about anime which is why i rarely watch it anymore. but what caught my attention about trigun was the incredible expression and form of character animation. not to say its the first 3d anime to achieve this- but it looked so clean, and had such great key frames for all these things you mostly see in 2d because its hard to rig a model to express in such exaggerated ways.

i quite like the use of 3d in animation and even want to lean more into that myself, as the tools that 3d provides can make animation much better for a variety of reasons, including the ease of just having a character model. but trying to get that toony feeling isnt just about the model itself- its also the animator know how to translate what is often done in 2d, to 3d. and i think trigun has done that very very well.

so its not a show id ever consider picking up at all for the plot. and while i wouldnt typically go for it, its certainly a good story so far. but its also just very nice to look at visually.

[planetamarte]

(anon who talked about dragonball from a couple days ago) yoo i didnt expect someone w a sonic background would resonate so much with early dragonball..!! but admittedly i dont know much about sonic, outside of like . snapscube, wayneradio, general common knowledge, etc. i couldnt find if someone asked this before erm but do you have any recommendations or favorites in the sonic franchise? i have always wanted to get into it + its like cultural exchange :) lmao

YEAHHH im liking it so far! if u dont know about it yet then once you learn the lore about the chaos emeralds specifically you'll see what i mean by the amount of inspiration sonic takes from dragonball LOLLL

my #1 recs for sonic will always be the games - for the majority of the series, sonic isnt really the type of thing where you absolutely Have to start from the beginning to understand its stories so u can just start anywhere! my personal favorites are both of the adventure games (especially 2), frontiers, generations and unleashed. the adventure series were the first 3d sonic games and where story started being more upfront. frontiers is the most recent and its story actually builds up on the chaos emerald lore in a way they hadnt done in decades. (this one has 2 prologues! the knuckles animation, divergence, and the comic tie-in, convergence.) generations is the one getting a remaster + new story content with shadow this october BUT the original game's story is very light and it's basically just a real nice glorified collection of levels from past games. i havent actually played unleashed since i was a kid (i might again soon) but this is the one with werehog sonic. its story is one of my favorites :)

im not much of a classic/2d player but i had fun with mania! origins is a collection of the classics that i havent played but ive heard it's pretty good and has a mechanic that makes losing lives less punishing than the originals. sonic 1, 2 and cd also have free mobile ports. the murder of sonic the hedgehog is also free on steam, it's a cute and casual little murder mystery visual novel and a real nice introduction to the cast of secondary characters!

(honorary mention goes to fangame dr. robotnik's ring racers, it's a pretty hard kart racer with a bunch of mechanics to memorize but is real fun once you get the hang of it and the tutorial has real cute interactions between eggman and tails. modding characters into this game is pretty easy and ive been working on putting in an oc of mine lol. this game is a sequel to sonic robo blast 2 kart, which is a mod for 1998(!) fangame sonic robo blast 2. another one i like is sonic and the fallen star, a 2d/classic style fangame with a cute artstyle and i know it has a sequel in the works!)

outside of games theres the idw comics! these take place after forces (the game before frontiers) but i think they establish an understanding of prior events pretty well that, again, u wouldn't Need to know everything before reading them. the archie comics are a beast i havent personally touched much of, they ran from 1993-2017 so theres a lot to them LOL

out of all the sonic shows and movies, sonic boom, the sonic ova (also known as the OG sonic movie) and sonic x are my favorites. all of these have super different takes on the world sonic lives in - boom is a silly little sitcom series w really funny meta humor, the ova is a 1996 pilot for an anime series that never happened, and sonic x is an anime series that DID happen where sonic is actually from a different world and gets isekaied to earth. (i recommend jp with subs for this one)

I THINK THATS IT...... i could keep going and be here all day but i will leave it here. theres way more stuff u naturally find getting into the series! the thing i like most about sonic is that i personally think theres something in the franchise for everyone. i hope all this info isnt too intimidating cause truly u can take this series at ur own pace. i hope u have fun anon ^__^

[antvnger]

i havent been on in a hot minute sorry! i was finishing up classes and getting ready for summer, which consists this year of a water aerobics class and my family's annual trip up to the mountains!

but i do have some watercolors from last semester that i forgot to show you!

the first one was the final update i had for the 3D space painting i did. the second and third were supposed to bith be ammonite fossils, one being an opalized fossil and tge other not. and the very last one is my final project, which was a self portrait i did of myself and some of my favorite animals! im really proud of all the paintings ive done for that class but im the most proud of the self portrait!

DUDE! Look at these! These are beautiful! Especially that self portrait! Look at your smile! Oh gosh this makes me super happy! Thank you for sharing these with me; they’re awesome.

[chkchks]

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little animation to get me back in the groove of things since i havent animated in a couple months

progress under the cut!

Originally this animation was going to be part of a set of three, with this one being the last. However, I decided to just animate this one since I spent a lot of time fussing over the first part and wasn’t sure how to get it to work, the second part had very minimal movement and I didn’t feel the motivation to animate it, and in the end I just wanted to animate something, and I quite like the mood of part 3. I also used clip studios 3d assets to help me with the background and perspective, since its something i still have trouble with and want to get it done to the best of my abilities

(first shot was cut shorter in this gif since its still) I didn’t want to spend too long on rough animation since the movement is basic and something I could inbetween when doing the final lines (though I mainly ended up doing that for the cushioning frames at the end) 

and just the lines!

[koijupiter]

So close to freedom!!!

all things classes are almost done soon. gah!!!! this is so stressful :")

im almost done with VFX, gonna submit in a few hours and half-done with animation class, i just need to clean-up my shooting boards and all things animatic + final adjustments to the 3D models. im just really not looking forward to Acting For Animation work. I shouldve been done with the 2 assignments from that class a long while ago, but I havent finished them(almost done with 1, but the other not even started). its a lot of 2D rotoscoping which just isn't up my alley :")

im gonna continue it after i finish VFX and 3D models tho, heres to hoping i can get the rotoscoping done ASAP bc its been a real thorn! <:")