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Published: 2011-07-13 00:09:29 +0000 UTC; Views: 40460; Favourites: 1798; Downloads: 0
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Description This is my graduate film from Sheridan College. It's been online for a while now, but I'm just getting a chance now to post it on DA.

In short, we get from September to the end of March to make our short films. I ended up restarting mine at the beginning of February : |
So if anyone was wondering why I don't have backgrounds in there, it's because I had absolutely no time and wanted to focus on my animation. Thanks for watching!
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Comments: 321

BlueLightningStrike [2011-11-19 12:06:36 +0000 UTC]

Such a smooth animation! The music went perfectly well with all of this! Haha.
This is a great piece of art!

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MrsVolv [2011-11-19 11:53:25 +0000 UTC]

Owwwww it's just great! *.*
Marvelous movements and cute story... I want to eventually animate like this <3

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StrawberryFaggotism [2011-11-19 11:47:29 +0000 UTC]

O that was sooo cute.. Too cute.. And so well animated.. Good job! Congrats.

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Poki-art [2011-11-19 11:33:05 +0000 UTC]

good job! i feel very sorry for the monkey though,and i'm a little sad.. but that tiger kid was just omg awwww freakin cute

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Silvia1826 [2011-11-19 11:33:02 +0000 UTC]

Cute work.

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eikenschild [2011-11-19 11:30:35 +0000 UTC]

The perfect example that a good animation doesn't have to be complicated! Love it!

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Rhinox007 In reply to ??? [2011-11-19 11:25:26 +0000 UTC]

This is wonderfull! Takes me back to my childhood.
There should be more 2D animations!

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bmaras In reply to Rhinox007 [2011-11-30 20:57:37 +0000 UTC]

Thanks and I agree!

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Silvery-Storm In reply to ??? [2011-11-19 11:19:55 +0000 UTC]

All the expressions! And everything fitted together like a jigsaw! There's such a sweet innocence to it that's coupled with professionalism
Great job, a joy to watch

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elolitta In reply to ??? [2011-11-19 11:08:19 +0000 UTC]

awww

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Treetail In reply to ??? [2011-11-19 11:06:13 +0000 UTC]

D8 Awww

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TracyWong [2011-11-19 11:06:04 +0000 UTC]

Wonderful work! I Hope to see it in color one day!

Congratulations on the Daily Deviation! It's well deserved!

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Treetail [2011-11-19 11:04:27 +0000 UTC]

That was just too freaking cute and funny! Great job!

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Plugin848y [2011-11-19 10:52:42 +0000 UTC]

It's really beautiful, everything is captured perfectly and the range of emotion and expression is just great!

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zenmaldita [2011-11-19 10:23:04 +0000 UTC]

That was amazing! Was that just the line test? Because its so fluid and clean XD

Where are you based, great one? I wanna be your apprentice XD

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bmaras In reply to zenmaldita [2011-11-30 20:57:16 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, my film is all pencil tests. No clean-up or anything.

Hahaha, I'm in Toronto right now. If there aren't really any animators in your area you can check out an online school like iAnimate.net. Lots of great pros teaching animation!

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zenmaldita In reply to bmaras [2011-12-01 13:02:04 +0000 UTC]

no clean up. *sniff* id I could, I'd be your clean up artist D:

toronto. well shucks that's far. its okay though, I'm an animation student already. but still. it would be nice if I could study under you XD

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TheM-Man [2011-11-19 09:41:20 +0000 UTC]

Poor ass monkey. Just wasn't his day.

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HyperTsunaFan [2011-11-19 09:13:54 +0000 UTC]

ADORABLE!!! that lil tiger kitty blew my mind!!

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Nany-hachikou [2011-11-19 08:53:29 +0000 UTC]

adorable
so sweet

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3ponfat1996 [2011-11-19 08:33:33 +0000 UTC]

i drew animations on Nintendo Dsi (Flipnote Studio) but i can long make 1 minute per animation and tinte necesary, this is magic, is just like a 3 moths of work and so hard traini g

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Madda-Archive [2011-11-19 08:31:24 +0000 UTC]

I love to bits how you managed to synchronize the events with the music. That's so cool

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n1kalas [2011-11-19 08:30:59 +0000 UTC]

great movie m8

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ay4u In reply to ??? [2011-11-19 08:13:42 +0000 UTC]

amazing!

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BurgerKapitany In reply to ??? [2011-11-19 08:08:50 +0000 UTC]

Amazing work!
I really adore your style!

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Sushiabbot123 In reply to ??? [2011-10-04 23:53:05 +0000 UTC]

Well, this is the cutest thing i've seen all day! I loved it! Keep up the good work!

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a3bashir In reply to ??? [2011-09-23 19:38:57 +0000 UTC]

everything are great in this film.

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ganeshcgartist [2011-09-03 05:12:55 +0000 UTC]

awesome...

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Blithegirl In reply to ??? [2011-08-09 22:44:07 +0000 UTC]

This is absolutely charming and entertaining to watch. I like the simple storytelling and the characters. The little swinging motion of the baby elephant's trunk every time he makes a slight movement makes me gush and uncontrollable awing noise. It was very well animated and I'm sure you'll go far!

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bmaras In reply to Blithegirl [2011-08-14 17:45:28 +0000 UTC]

Thanks a lot for the compliments and the watch! Your Little Mermaid watercolors are awesome.

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KankuroRox [2011-08-04 18:53:55 +0000 UTC]

Cute animation! 8D Great job!

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Perpetualpeace [2011-08-03 05:11:57 +0000 UTC]

amazing...

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dinosapien [2011-08-01 13:00:44 +0000 UTC]

That was the cutest animation I have ever seen I wanted to cry when the baby tiger and elephant were sad

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Hyperfisk In reply to ??? [2011-07-25 13:40:09 +0000 UTC]

really nice 2D work! the animation is really nice and clean, very nice timing and spacing on it. And the drawings are very appealing. I do not mind the lack of bg work, when the animation is this nice! thumbs up!

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HappyFoe In reply to ??? [2011-07-21 13:40:44 +0000 UTC]

HOLY CRAP! your awesome! this is soo freaking smooth. hope u work for disney!

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jsac38 In reply to ??? [2011-07-17 01:05:26 +0000 UTC]

Incredibly well done!!Love traditional animation.

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Sprybug In reply to ??? [2011-07-17 00:50:04 +0000 UTC]

I see a future Disney guy and you went to the right school where they breed you guys perfectly for their stuff. A ton of Disney/Pixar guys come from CalArts or Sheridan. With this, you'd fit right in. Very beautiful. I wish my traditional animation was this good.

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bmaras In reply to Sprybug [2011-07-19 02:13:51 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for the compliment! Even though some Sheridan students go on to work in feature, it's all about how much work you put into it. There are also tons of people in the industry that came from schools I never heard of before or from a different field all together. It's all about how hard you work and how bad you want it !

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Sprybug In reply to bmaras [2011-07-19 02:31:13 +0000 UTC]

Exactly. I came from VanArts myself (in Vancouver, BC). I was definitely bottom tier in talent in my class at the start, but I worked really hard, listened to my instructors always, applied what they said, spent extra time after class, and it really paid off. I also got much better and learned even more out here in the industry. I still want to break into television animation one day. I think I'd have a much easier time if I was Canadian. You guys have a lot of opportunity in that area.

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Pyrowman [2011-07-16 19:08:39 +0000 UTC]

Really nicely done! The timing, the expressions, the motion, excellent! I take my hat off to you, bravo!

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Sam-in-Motion In reply to ??? [2011-07-16 16:00:24 +0000 UTC]

This is TOO BEAUTIFUL!! I love 2D animation in its raw form, its perfect!! The baby elephant with his little toot, and his crying captured my AWWWWW side. But then that baby tiger came . . . AWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!! Perfect! Well done to you and your team.

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bmaras In reply to Sam-in-Motion [2011-07-19 02:43:16 +0000 UTC]

Thanks so much! The only other person who helped out was . She did the design for the tiger and actually did a couple poses where he's super sad. She also made the elephant design cuter than what I originally drew.

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Sam-in-Motion In reply to bmaras [2011-07-19 05:48:43 +0000 UTC]

Well I take my hat off to the two of you

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nisa007 In reply to ??? [2011-07-16 15:31:51 +0000 UTC]

nice.. love it

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LupynJax In reply to ??? [2011-07-16 15:28:32 +0000 UTC]

Haha,I guess that monkey will never learn.

This was adorable and wonderfully animated.

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LPDisney In reply to ??? [2011-07-16 11:04:50 +0000 UTC]

Truly beautiful

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Twitterlu In reply to ??? [2011-07-16 01:17:26 +0000 UTC]

I love it! Smooth animation, great drawings. The tiger cub is adorable.

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Epere15 In reply to ??? [2011-07-15 22:36:00 +0000 UTC]

Really good. But I would have liked a final version

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Maaco15 In reply to ??? [2011-07-15 02:28:43 +0000 UTC]

COOL!!

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omgsmoo In reply to ??? [2011-07-14 01:22:41 +0000 UTC]

excellent! i loved this! you have some awesome skills there

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