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Here's a still from the short animated film I'm making! It'll be finished in May.Related content
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sorry about the late reply....thanks for the permission
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oh gosh i just watched this yesterday on Viemo and it was just sooo awesome~
You did an amazing job β₯
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n fact... if you have time on some of the clouds/mists in fg, you can add a subtle level of very bright pixels of light that glow and fade, if there is subtle panning action.
I am trying to think of an example I could drag you to in anime, but I can't. They would do dither patterns of crossing dots on two levels of paper with a back light to make those sparley oceans so nice, but this is a little different.
If you think of a leading edge of some cloud forms you are kind of '
I'm going to think of how this can be achieved simply, but using Flash is different from a camera. You might be able to make some kind of '
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SHIT ALMIGHTY!
I just remembered something that might have layered up your animation better! It's something you can add later, but would have been very nice to the audience at UH:
MOOSH MOOSH
It's a Sam Raimi term for added levels of intense movement and action in the camera, usually close, that give extra perspective and will occupy the viewer's eye without a lot of extra effort. Many film makers miss that level; leaves, or dust blowing through in front of camera, lights, light effects, blocking objects, camera movements that distract the viewer or complicate the scene enough to fool the viewer into thinking they are seeing or feeling more than the budget actually allowed paid for, and so on.
YOU can use some panning water droplets/cloud mist and some light effects. Glossy, bright, transparent orbs of light expanding, rotating on spires of radiating light, etc, etc.
If you add any of these later they will be relatively easy work. Even the light effects won;t be hard to do with FLASH, but might take time to work properly and not look odd.
The thought came from a reflection on your boards in my mind: you used a lot of middle and background images, but foreground was left out unless the character was in foreground, in which case middle ground was left empty. I always thought it best to use all three levels as much as possible in animation, so there are 3 levels with information occupying the viewer's mind and elevating them out of simplicity or static, easily digested information, unless that effect is desired.
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Howdy Sir!
Good to see some stills
Hope all is going well with the animation, and best of luck! May it make many a hamster happy!
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oh my god... I'm so excited you're making a film. this really makes me very very excited.
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i paint clouds lots, it's nice to see how differently other people do them...
yeahhhhhh
well, i look forward to seeing this finished : )
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Since starting this film I've been painting clouds pretty differently in comparison to a lot of my other works. Must be because I'm using Photoshop to make them rather than Painter.
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this is soo good!
reminded me a bit of "My beautiful girl mari" [link] .
but in your very unique style.
Can't wait to see your short :3!
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the no line thing is a reaaaally good option
at least its pretty graphic
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It's an utter arse to animate though, I have to draw everything with the pencil tool in flash, which is like trying to draw with bendy straws.
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hΓ©hΓ© yup,but can't you cheat sometimes
I got a friend who used this technik in a little short made in one month
don't know if this can help but here is the link
[link] 
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Oh man, you know this guy? I've had his blog in my bookmarks for ages now.
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well actually we were in the same school at different times but yay we met drank pints have a few peanuts and talk about yuasa
hΓ©hΓ©
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[link]
Pf3trD31has
facking emoticon
I cutted the link
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I want to see this right now! It looks fantastic.
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I can't wait to find out all the crazy places she's going to go!
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Hooray :D
Can I safely assume that it is going amazingly?
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It looks amazing!! Can't wait to see the whole thing
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The deadline is the 12th of May, which is MY BIRTHDAY
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Haha so the animation is kinda like a birthday gift to yourself!
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Ha, mine is the third, I'm older than you by 9 days and (negative)several years >:D
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Nice ^^, I suggested that, canΒ΄t wait for the finished product 
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Hehe keep it going
looking forward to it mang!
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lookin awsome from that one shot. will it be animated at 12fps or is it higher then that?
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25fps, at 720p (1280x720). Who on Earth animates at 12fps?
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people who dont focus on timing do, or those who cant be bothered to change the default frame rate in flash.
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I don't know for sure if you were serious in that statement, but pretty much every traditionnal cartoon is animated at 12 or 24 fps. This said, this looks promising indeed!
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The film plays at 24 and the animator works on 2's you mean?
That's true, but animators tend to work on varying speeds throughout.
Running on 1's and walking on 2's for example.
Anyway, just clarifying.
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Yup you're right, that's exactly what I meant to say.
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The framerate of the video at 25fps, the timing of each frame for the character changes constantly though.
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Aaah I see now. UK uses PAL system and North America, NTSC. That explains the different standards.
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a girl in the sky! how curious.
good luck with the project! these things are a bitch to finish.
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I quite like how her shorts are like the sky~ And it's good to hear you'll be doing more animatinggggg
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Not good that her shorts blended in with the sky, I've fixed that now!
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question.. are you starting at the beginning and working slowly through it all the way till the end?
Because if so, that would give me some idea of where you're at.
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