more project progress gifs

I've got a bunch of acrylic paintings to take photos of, plus some other stuff, but this (at least in a rough form) is due this Wednesday (I've got the last sequence to get through...just five shots or so? but I've no idea how she's actually going to beat the boss yet....gotta figure it out tomorrow; then it'll be sound and editing things together, shouldn't be too bad, really) so....here's everything so far: (EDIT: and....finished? maybe? to be refined, certainly but...yeah. so sleeps)

(sorry to people with low bandwidth D: )

Fusco

new and improved: using multiple brushes in a single piece :D

three sequences and a couple of other things

I completed the following two before this one and am still working on the first two sequences, but this one makes me think I might want to go through and make the whole thing silhouetted and sketchy, pull a Limbo on it.

started mixing it up, using brushes from another set that I downloaded ages ago. Help, I like them....

Vikings: you should be watching it.

coupla new ones

More line tests+some fanarts

Quick test to see what I could do with the brush I usually use for painting. It's pretty interesting so something to revisit, but it'd be hell for a full minute of animation

This'll probably be the style I wind up going for--it's important to be honest with yourself, and I lean hella toward the sketchy end of things by default. 

playing with some open mouthed inbetweens, but it just turns out looking like she's beatboxing? I'm ok with this.

And now for something completely different: Supergiant has announced their new game. Transistor. Oooooh my god it looks so good. It'll be out sometime in 2014 and I just......aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.

The main character is named red and she has a giant talking sword and the enemies took her voice and AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

I JUST LOVE TO DRAW AND PAINT HER ALREADY

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I also finally got around to playing Superbrothers: Sword and Sworcery EP last weekend. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

I haven't been so creeped out by my responsibility in bringing the narrative to its natural conclusion since I played Braid. I can't really say much about it since it'll ruin the whole thing but the general conceit of games is that the player character is the avatar for the player, right? Yeah, not so much. 

Ok, back to work.

Platformer post the first

I mentioned in my last post that I'm going to be doing a more involved animation project that includes things like backgrounds and character designs.

Well, I'm gonna slap stuff up here as I finish for your delight/feedback.

A quick sketchy ref of my main character, currently (and perhaps forever) unnamed

The first background, on which I will be animating uh....tomorrow? hopefully?

A quick line test. I did the keyframes and the first section before I left for break and then finished it up when I got back. A couple things changed in between: a few small details of her design and I got way more comfortable animating in photoshop, leading to a looser, sketchier animation. It is a little choppy where I held the keyframes for odd lengths, but I figure that that's part of the learning curve.

Because I am only an intro student currently (oh woe, that I did not have access to traditional animation classes during my undergrad) and because I'm notoriously impatient when it comes to coloring things (esp. flatting things....augh, tedium) I'm thinking of animating her/the enemies in a loose grey pencil like this. I figure that she'll still stand out against the backgrounds, which'll be kept both tight and colorful, and I can sketch-fill her in with white for more contrast if I need it. 

Adventure!

Object Oriented 05

Two posts? In one day? WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT? Well, hold onto your pants, there may even be a third, depending on what else I get done today.

To be fair though, the last post was just because it took me a couple of days to get the video on the interwebzzzzz. Speaking of which: