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jocarra β Swordplay test animation
Published: 2005-05-20 05:28:23 +0000 UTC; Views: 16383; Favourites: 479; Downloads: 2717
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RIGHT CLICK TO LOOPA little swordplay animation... Rotoscoping is fun... Yep.
Right now, it's only in its most crude form - I was going to make it longer, but I thought this was an appropriate place to end it. I hope to make this into a proper animation of Jayli some day. Y'know, properly drawn with colour and a background... *sighs wistfully* Oh well...
~6 hours. 65 frames rotoscoped. Drawn in Adobe PhotoShop 7.0, tested in Microsoft GIF Animator, presented in Flash. 20.
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Thank you kindly! Β I'm honestly not much of an animator, but I agree, it would be nice to have the chance to give it another go!
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Your so very much welcome! Keep working much more! Truly love the work you did here^^
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Have you thought about doing tons more action scenes?
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I don't have the time, honestly. Β I do artwork full-time as a job, so I don't get to choose what I work on, and once I'm done work, I don't want to do more art XD
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Yeah of course! Well if anything it's best to study other action sequences from others, reference left and right until you get better and better at it really~ I go to Sakugabooru to look up some decent cuts of animation to gain some ideas and such. Why not give that a shot?Β
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Heh, again, I don't really have the time :b Β Most of my artwork is paid work for other people where I don't get to pick what I'm doing. Β It's how I pay rent/bills/such, so I don't have as much time to do personal art.
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Ah I see. Ah well I tried to be encouraging. No worries~
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must, MAKE AN ANIMATION USING THE BASE!! May I?
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Sure thing 
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okay. maybe... i'm kinda nervous about displaying artwork, etc.
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You can always upload it to your Stash, where it's private
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Here is the link [link]
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Could I possible use this as a reference? I'll credit you and everything.
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this is really cool, looks like a pencil drawing. 6 hours? sheesh u got patience
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beatyfull you really have talent look at my animation urahara arival [link] and my art [link]
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Do you have any pointers/advice on animation?
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Unfortunately not! It's not exactly my forte - this for example was rotoscoping, which anyone can do - it's basically like traditional motion capture where you trace over a model's movement and then redraw it as the appropriate character.
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Rotoscoping? How would you trace over the captured video? Do you slow it down frame by frame and then work off the frames in a digital program?
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Yes, that's it exactly.
That's how Disney animators did the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, for example, in the first Fantasia movie. Got a dancer to come in, filmed her, and then had the animators trace over her and redraw her as a fairy, to make sure the dance movements looked good and were correct.
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Oh wow. Okay then. Any program suggestions then?
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For animation? I guess I'd recommend the usual Adobe Flash, for starters.
For something simpler, I use a free downloadable Microsoft GIF animator, which just links pre-existing frames you've made together to make an animated GIF. I used it and Adobe Photoshop to make my avatar, for example - made the individual frames in PS, and put them together in the GIF animator.
If you don't have it already, Adobe Photoshop is just kind of a standard for any graphics, although not necessary.
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Okay then! Where could I find the Microsoft GIF pprogram?
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Not sure, I always just Google for it.
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really nice!!!! Rotoscopy is veeeeery tiring.. I'll post mine someday... but your work is realy good!!! congrats!
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Thanks a lot! I always mean to actually finish this properly, but it's so much work O_O
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Oh yeah... it is hell on earth.. hahahah
but the move is perfect... that is where it became so much work, and also made it so good!
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Hard to explain concisely, but she's basically the female in these pictures: [link]
She's one of two main characters from a novel I've been working on since 1997.
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She's in my Tripartitus folder if you're interested, although of the art is on the old side X3
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That's just amazing. I love how you keep the anatomy right during all those different poses
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One word: Rotoscoping!
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Your work... just awesome.
I have a request to you, please. I draw a cartoon with my friends and there is a scene of battle. Can I use your work as the basis for one of the scenes? 
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