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Published: 2012-04-18 21:35:32 +0000 UTC; Views: 31254; Favourites: 2581; Downloads: 578
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Won me Best in Show at my Senior Art Exhibition
deviantArt is sometimes a little weird when it comes to playing this, so I apologize in advance if the music is out of sync with the animation. If it is (which will be obvious, I think), I recommend viewing elsewhere, selecting download on the right, or letting the video cycle once over before watching. This is the highest resolution version I have online.
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Newgrounds: www.newgrounds.com/portal/view...
Facebook: www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=3...
YouTube: youtu.be/C-NVld-bfVo
Here's the animation I worked on all fall semester 2011. It's an excerpt from the fourth chapter of my fantasy novel series.
This isn't the ending I had in mind; the original ending was a lot more complicated and definitely longer. With my time limit, though, definitely not feasible. My teacher liked this ending, so I'm fine with it.
There are a million things wrong with it, I know; please don't point them out to me.
I'm much better at animation than I was before, but I just don't have the time to fix the problems right now. Maybe I will later.After Effects Animation
Music: "Mausam and Escape" by A.R. Rahman
© Lea Faske 2012
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Comments: 427
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Oh my fricken goodness!!!!!!!!! O.o This is one of the best animations I have ever seen! <3
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I assume you intentionally made the character's eyes change colors a lot, so I am curious of why his eyes do in fact do that. Great animation, though.
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That was very nice.
If I had to give you a piece of advice, though, I was say not to make your introductions so long. I don't know whether it me or not, but the first few minutes of the video, in which the main character was floating/falling seemed awfully long to me, and I got a tad bored.
Nonetheless, it was very good, and seemed pretty professionally done to me. I would adore seeing much more of this.
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I appreciate your insight.
I agree that the sequence you mentioned took more space than I wanted. I think you forgot to consider, though, that the animation was confined to the pre-established structure of the song. Since I did not commission the music, I had no power over that, unless I were to edit the song in Garageband and therefore sacrifice its flow and natural build-up. I have to also point out that the sequence you're talking about occurs within 30 seconds; if it really did take you a few minutes to get through that scene, I apologize, and I recommend viewing it on YouTube or Newgrounds. DeviantART is a little laggy in playing the animation on my laptop PC, while perfectly fine on my iMac, so I can't tell how it plays on the average computer. The animation itself isn't much longer than 2:30, including the 15-20 second introduction, and timing is crucial.
Again, thank you; I really do appreciate honest comments.
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Ah, okay.
I'll have to re-watch it on Newgrounds.
You're very welcome, by the way.
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Such smooth animations, and I love the illustrations. That music, yesss
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Amazing quality animation, and interesting story. I love the choice of music!
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I love how the character's eye colour changes throughout the animation. Awesome work!
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Holy *beep* It felt like a game trailer and i fell in love.
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Oh man. That'd be great.
Thank you
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>3> you should reeeeeally make another. (if you aren't already)
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This was absolutely inspiring regardless of the little things you can easily point out but if you could do this you can do even greater things with the more experience and ease of both the usage of your own technique and the familiarity with the animation. I also love your beautiful work on the face and the small details like the changing colors of his eyes. Wonderful job
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that was awesome i loved it!! what program did u use??
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This is wonderful!!
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Loved it!!
And, believe me, I'm one of those prone to seizures but had the highlight of my day with this!!
Incredible production which should be concluded...
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That song was in Slumdog Millionaire, right? xD
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could YOU do better? this was pretty amazing
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No, I can't do better. But I don't get the point of this.
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lol you could be polite honest!
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I'm trying as hard as I can!
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you poor thing! there's just too much to comment on in this world!!
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WHOAH!!! That's amazing! (To me at least.) You may say there are mistakes, but hell it's a lot better than I could have done!
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So-..I found myself watching..sitting here...
Utterly enticed.
Who else realized, after it had looped once, that their jaws were agape?
Yeah. .....yeah.
WELL DESERVED OF THE DD! BRAVO!
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