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Inkthinker — rain of arrows - WIP
Published: 2007-02-22 12:34:12 +0000 UTC; Views: 9171; Favourites: 191; Downloads: 2856
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Just messing about when I should be sleeping, or working, or doing anything EXCEPT fiddling with this sort of thing.Still, it's more fun than clipping toenails.
Easytoon (as usual). 80 drawn frames, 25fps, tablet drawn.
Mostly this began as an expiriment in the sort of ramped motion that's utilised in the initial cut. I think I was still too linear with it, and you can tell I got tired of all the arrows pretty quickly. Still, it'd be fun to do a full-blown scene like this.
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Had the same thought. Inkthinker, you should send this stuff to the makers of naruto, LOL!
But, seriously, with this kind of skill, I bet you can get a job anywhere in the world.
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o yea. inkthinker's shorts are reminiscent of those dynamic movements found in cartoons like naruto, dragonball, yuyu hakusho, G Gundam, and others alike. He's really sitting on a goldmine with these ideas
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CHRIST. this is so badass. something about the sense of movement... you should animate for fighting games!
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Nah. Those guys get paid bupkis.
I really would like to animate fighting action for TV or film, but it doesn't seem to be something anyone wants to pay me to do, and so I kinda have to put off the fun I have animating this kinda stuff in order to make a nickel and pay the rent.
But if I could, man, I'd totally make a fighting anime that would kick ass clear through the top of the head.
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At first I thought it was more then 80 frames, do you do it on 2's?
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Always! There are selected frames on ones, but I animate on twos as much for most everything.
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So do you do key frames first (like 1-5-9 etc) and then inbetween, or do you go straight through?
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Both, but most often I key first. More often than not when I use Easytoon I'm never sure how many tweens I'll need... I just ballpark it and then add/remove as necessary according to playback. But on the average I throw down key or a breakdown ever 3-7 frames.
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try adding SOUND its already awesome like that but with the right sound efects itll be just bone shivering!! even tho its just adoodle..
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Pfft. There's a trick.
You could do it, dude. You're digital, and your drawing skills are there. You just have to practice to learn timing.
Oh, any you have to be willing to draw largely the same thing again and again from every concievable angle.
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I'm having some trouble with the key points and as well filling in areas. How do you do that with all the dots?
The key points I sometimes don't know when to do few steps and when to do more. Like I'll put in way to many frames from one point to another, and it'll end up looking to slow, maybe it's in the way that the movement is drawn? not sure.
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Yeah, picking out keys is all about timing, and timing is at the very heart of animation. Practice makes it easier, as over time you gain a sense in your head of what exactly 1/15 to 1/30 of a second will look like. I can actually pick out individual frames of animation when I watch TV now (and THAT was a weird transition, I don't mind telling you). I oughtta try playing some of the old frame-specific fighting games again.
Here's a good rule of thumb: if you go more than 3 frames, there should probably be a keyframe or a breakdown. "Keyframes" are those... well, key frames, the key moment that defines the action. A "breakdown" is a sort of lesser key... it follows the action between two keys, but also fills it out.
So for instance, in a walk cycle you might set the keyframes to fall on the points where both feet are touching the ground, but the breakdown would go to the point where a person is halfway through the step... one foot firmly down, the other foot up at the halfway point in mid-air. Then you tween betwixt the keys and the breakdown as needed to establish timing (guesstimate 2-5 tween frames from key to breakdown to key, for a total of 5-9 frames per step).
It's hard to do timing wrong per se... even unintended timing can look good. The task is in learning to control it.
If you really want to learn to animate, even loosely, then Richard Williams book The Animator's Survival Kit is a very visual, thorough guide to the craft.
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Thanks for the tips, I'll definitely be looking that book up.
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The most awesome kind of awesome.
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good god man. you are one kick ass artist. i don't know how you do these animations the way you do, especially with easytoon. i tried, and it looked like crap
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It's just practice. It never looks great at first.
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....Cool. I love the shots of the arrows when you first see them coming. It makes it look really in depth.
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Awesome movement on the guy, but that momentary stall during the hangtime of the arrows is brilliant work.
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Probably the first best "rain of arrows" scene I ever saw was in Hero. I expect another great one in 300.
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Dude, you are made of God ans Win...
Your animation style is always too cool for school!
-Vlad D.
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amazing as usual
the arrows when he's dodging them in mid flight are a lil awkward. But totaly bad ass overall! I love the inital entrence of the arrows from the distance!
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Woahz @__@
The arrows were amazing
Especially at the front where they appears as dots then woooooosh! *really bad at describing things*
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Wow! Very fluid very fun, some niceuse of cammera angles to convay motion too. You need to start on a some high Wuxwa anime, or your own show like [link] pleeeeeeeeeze?
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I hadn't seen that... it's very neat.
In some respects I am working on "my own show", being the lead animator for HTF Studios I have a couple of projects on the burner all the time. At least one of them (Joe is Japanese has begun appearing online in small bits, and I animated large chunks of a short film that just went to Slamdance and is headed to the SxSW film festival next. But I can't talk about my work in public, because it risks violating non-disclosure rules, so I rarely mention those projects here.
Though it's not really fair to call those "MY" own shows... I'm responsible for a lot of the visual result, but it's not all under my control, so it's not entirely my own. At the same time, I have about as much input into those works as any other animator gets, unless they're Hayao Miyazaki.
I'd like to do something that was entirely my own, someday, but these darn bills keep piling up.
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Making all those arrows must have been incredibly annoying. It's still kick-ass.
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It wasn't so bad at first, and it might not be so bad doing 'em for clean, but yeah... at some point I was just like, "okay, point made, I'm sick of this now".
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That's awesome! I always love watching your animations, an this one is particularly dynamic and exciting!
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reminds me of the Animatrix scene, very nicely done.
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Was there a rain of arrows in one of the Animatrix films?
I was thinking more of the ones in Hero and 300 while I was on it, but it's been done in anime more than once before.
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Amazing.
How do you get them so clean? I can't get proper motion down without drawing the messiest sketches.
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I do a lot of messy sketching.
The thing here is, there's not a lot of detail, and I'm cheating a good bit by making the ninja a silhouette. And if you looked at the individual frames, you'd see that the arrows are pretty rough... they're just never on long enough to notice.
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yup, you are my animation guru indeed.(like it or not since i look up to ya) See this is so great beacause to you its just "messing" I cant wait to see your work on tv, or dvd.
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The insane movements you make your character perform are amazing. There is some really nice timing on those arrows. Overall great job!
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