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Published: 2006-11-26 09:19:46 +0000 UTC; Views: 5339; Favourites: 73; Downloads: 175
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This is my animation of a bird that I did in my first year of animation uni. It was required to take off, link into a flight cycle and then land. This was a very frustrating project, birds hard to draw flying! I had problems with proportions near the end because I rushed it. :sRelated content
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thanks kindly man. It just aint easy sitting through and watching this and seeing the mistakes.
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Awww that is cute. Well done! I wanna do animation at uni hopefully ^^
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thanks. anyone can do animation, dont have to wait til uni. if you got flash, or even post-its, you can animate.
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mhm well I dunno how to use flash yet. I'll get taught soon hopefully ^^
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Post its are better practice, as long as they dont come apart.
Flash is an expensive program and its very difficult. You should have experiance before getting it.
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i can't believe how simple but effective that is it's just so brilliant
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seriously, dont animate a bird, i hated this one so much.
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really?!?!? you've done such i good job
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ya I've looked at bird flight and man I think that would be hard to get right..... nice job
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thanks alot. i wish i never picked this bird though, but then again, none of them are easy.
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oh I cant imagine how hard that would be, trying to keep a smooth flow to all that motion going on with wings
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aaaw this is so cute ^^
your animations are so amazing!! i wish i could do that kind of animations.. i quess you have some special paper for these..
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thank you very much for the kind words.
Nah, no special paper. Whatever you buy for your printers, the low quality crappy stuff, thats what I used. Cant afford to use special paper. lol
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thanks for the kind comment. Ceri did the work on the flight cycle. I thought it looked great too.
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hey,I was wondering how you did these kinds of 2d animations did you erase and draw erase and draw or do you have 2 papers? or..? XD
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lol Nah, lots of paper. Couldnt imagine rubbing all these frames out and just doing it on two pieces of paper. I recenetly just finished one animation that has about 500 drawings, but once I did the rough animation, I had to redraw them on a new piece of paper so they just had one crisp outline, so in total had about 1000 drawings for that project. I then coloured it on the computer, so watch out for it in the upcoming future.
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wow.. you have A LOT of time XD
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lol, no I do not. I am doing this uni work all the time. I would be crazy to do this in my free time, this was coursework. ^_^
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I see I see XD looks very fun to do XD
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so u didnt use flash to make this?
with a tablet and ur skill, it will be "wow"
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nah. Its a converted avi in flash, because I havent got a gif editor, and my computer doesnt play gifs anyway, so it looks better in flash. I have done flash animation once before though, I'll submit it later in the future, but never used a tablet for it. Maybe over christmas I'll play with it abit more though.
But yeh, I'm studying to become a proper traditional 2D animator, just pencils and papers. lol
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traditional is what i want to do, maybe a blend between tablet and traditional somehow... only future will tell i guess
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sounds to me like you would prefer animating in flash. Its a computer animation program and you can draw straight into it with a tablet. Its kinda the future of 2D animation, as if its our only option to get a job unless you work in disney or cartoon network.
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oh i know about flash 
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I like it 
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Thanks buddy. Its not transparent paper you need, you need a lightbox. Buy one cheaply, or use your scanner. When the light is on, just use it to help yo see through your paper. Keep the drawings quite close together to avoid jumping around too much.
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OH. Hehe. I think I'll give the scanner idea a try sometime after I finish up the rest of my tasks. Thanks for the info, buddy
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It must be really great to see one of your drawings moving. It's probably nothing if you do it a lot, but for me, who never did anything like that it still seems magical.
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Thats how I felt before I got into animation. When you start drawing, even when we just did cars driving around, it was awesome. The best is when you do create a character and animate it. Its just amazing. I start animating a new character thursaday until christmas actually. Cant wait.
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this is a great job! very fluid.
looking forward to seeing more of them in the future
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Thanks alot man. Its not as smooth as some other animations I think, but i guess it looks ok. The cat is probably better.
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Hey, at least you knew what you were doing.
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heh, animation is always a learning curve. we never truly know what we are doing, we just go with the flow.
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Nice work - very nicely animated.
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Thanks alot man. I hate this really. I think I only like the bird turning his head at the beginning while standing on the mountain. The project was hell.
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Thanks alot dude. Cant remember really how long it took, maybe half a week, 3 days?
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Wow this came out amazing, cant wait to see more animations from you
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thanks alot man. Dont worry, they are coming real soon. (saves me rushing a drawing I dont have time to do.)
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How'd you keep the background consistent in the first scene? That's not drawn on the same page as the bird, is it?
Nice animation.
I don't draw birds at all, let alone animated ones. I think you did a great job animating it. I like the pecking at the end. It adds more life to the animal.
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Thanks alot man. Yeh, I think I was one of the only people to make the animals in general do something different than just stop. Thought it would add more character.
As for the background, hell no! lol Couldnt draw that over and over again! ^_^
On our animation program and camera, we are able to shoot levels of animation, so that was just one drawing for the background held to the end.
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Yeah, I noticed you did that on the cat animation too. It's a great touch.
Ah. OK.
Was it an animation cel, or something different? The animation setup at my school only filmed one level. The option to use cels was there, but I never used it myself.
You're welcome.
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Nah, we dont use cels, too expensive. All we do is animation on paper, since computer programs can now immitate a cell look. So the background would be paper, the animation is also paper. Basically the computer programs sets the animation to 'multiply' like on photoshop so that all the gaps are see through.
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Ah! You use the computer! OK, I gotcha.
My high school only had paper, cels, and a regular video camera (set to Frame Record, or something like that. It takes one picture each time you press the button).
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Actually amazing...well worth the wait.
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Thanks alot man. I'm not sure if the file is still running smoothly, might have been my connection, but I'm glad everyone can now watch my animations. Should be posting all my first year work over the next couple of weeks/days.
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