HOME | DD

mayshing — Edepth animation opening wIP10

Published: 2007-12-24 05:23:16 +0000 UTC; Views: 15352; Favourites: 313; Downloads: 352
Redirect to original
Description Almost finished ver: [link]

Animatics: [link]

Anime for this manga: [link]

6 MB file, it might take a while for some.

PS: If you are using wireless, the sound is likely to be mis-matched to the sequence. i hope not...

Progress recording:
[link]



Updated with sound. Not everything match up the way I wanted, but this gives a better idea how it will look.



I like sharing unfinished animation.... because each of them takes so freakish long to finish. (This is almost like... sharing my comic sketches before they become official pages, but oh well, it's got very little story to it, no spoiler.)


Note: Some parts of the animation will feel too fast or too slow, that's because it's a WIP, the timing is still in progress too, trust me the finished version will be properly timed.


Flash 8-CS3

Time: 1 min 30 seconds rough out

Wip 1: 12/23/07 ---3 hours so far

WIP 2: 6-8 hours?

WIP4: 9/17/08--- lost count...

WIP5: 9/23/08- gah, I didn't know how to do missiles fire, had to research on youtube. I didn't feel like I accomplished much. Thankfully I finished None's 270 degree turn plus zoom out! (There's some stuff to fix, I will clean it up with pencil and paper.)


WIP6: 9/27/08- I finished 90% of the missile firing scene, (its still a bit too fast but) yay~~ Thank you Zoids. T_T It was easier than I thought though... so few drawings yet the speed can make it look so cool easily..... erm. I am not bragging. I hope.
None's cannon energy gathering and firing is a lot more trouble-some. I over animated.... right now it's.... barely working, I think that scene needs to be longer.
The hard part is a lot of the animation is too smooth...


WIP7: Animated a few of the last scenes before I ran out of steam....




WIP10: 10/18/08 Skipped a week, now it's WIP 10.
Animated the most troubling sequence this weekend.... Sc 09 where Ko grow his wings, and Sc 17 where None's arm gets cut.
Then fixing up more timing and subtle areas... There's still alot to work on.
GAWD they were HARD! It's not just the drawing, it took me a while to get the timing too. T_T

Right now I can say I am fairly satisfied with those two scenes, I still want to rework into Ko's growing wing sequence. (Flash rendered the sound off for some reason, but its WIP so i'll let it go.)




Music inspiration source:
God knows, Lost my music, from Hirano Aya
Hero, by Nickel Black
and Edepth theme composed by



Lyrics by


------------------------

"Don't Linger"

[piano]
I found your footsteps etched in the sand
and followed them here to a dry, thirsty land

I call your name, but (still) you turn away
Please, don't forget what I told you today

Open your eyes and awake to sunrise
Don't linger in (your) empty dreams

[guitar]
I traced your path to a dead, barren sea
and found a storm brewing all around me

The wind tears our voices away
You cannot hear what I say

[flute/lesley guitar]
f 10 Deeper and deeper, the whirlpool draws down
lg10 You, fallen prince, with your broken crown
f 10 Open your eyes and awake to sunrise
lg11 See me here calling, reaching for you (oh)

f 11 Where are you now? your image fades to black
lg 10 The world burns around us; the clock won't turn back
f 11 I've carried my words across all these years
lg 10 Look up and listen; tell me what you hear

[flute - closing]
f 9 open your eyes, awake to sunrise
f 9 let me see you reach out now for me
f 9 (oh) don't linger in empty dreams

------------------------
Related content
Comments: 315

Yukiko-berrie In reply to ??? [2008-04-30 19:25:17 +0000 UTC]

WOW! O_O that`s sooo awesome!!! i love how the girls face and eyes are, it looks like an interce (sp?) battle! you did awesome!!! keep it up

👍: 0 ⏩: 0

clayscence In reply to ??? [2008-04-29 19:51:33 +0000 UTC]

om,g.....that is totally amazing hun!! you did a wonderful job, the movements are great and the expressions... it must've taken a lot of time!!

👍: 0 ⏩: 0

Sol-Guardian-Kilo In reply to ??? [2008-04-29 19:51:21 +0000 UTC]

this is gonna be one heck of an animation when you finish

👍: 0 ⏩: 0

pchanpiggy In reply to ??? [2008-04-29 15:51:15 +0000 UTC]

This looked really cool when it was loading slow with my dial-up, very nice job.

👍: 0 ⏩: 0

LillithMalice In reply to ??? [2008-04-29 14:52:19 +0000 UTC]

ZOMG this is so awesome, I mean so cool, I mean aww man!

👍: 0 ⏩: 0

nightdragon In reply to ??? [2008-04-29 14:22:30 +0000 UTC]

Whoa, that's already amazing! I can't wait to see what else you do with this!
You know, you're only making me want to make a None plushie even more. . .

👍: 0 ⏩: 0

Klipiec In reply to ??? [2008-04-29 14:00:57 +0000 UTC]

i think that it'll make better impresion if you add some sound

👍: 0 ⏩: 1

mayshing In reply to Klipiec [2008-04-29 15:19:32 +0000 UTC]

yeah, I will ask someone to make some music for me. lol~

👍: 0 ⏩: 0

palp In reply to ??? [2008-04-29 13:40:41 +0000 UTC]

i like to see the end result... u seem to have improved

👍: 0 ⏩: 1

mayshing In reply to palp [2008-04-29 15:15:43 +0000 UTC]

I have more time to tween when I am not working under a deadline. XD Thanks.

👍: 0 ⏩: 1

palp In reply to mayshing [2008-04-30 16:25:12 +0000 UTC]

i understand... tats y they call it DEADlines...

👍: 0 ⏩: 0

Joku99 In reply to ??? [2008-04-29 10:36:22 +0000 UTC]

Wow very nice animation.You are very good to make animations

👍: 0 ⏩: 0

ebba In reply to ??? [2008-04-29 09:37:05 +0000 UTC]

so far so good, look forward to see it finished, or even more wips tbh
trying on some 2d animation myself now for a short gametrailer, for the very first time, so its nice to see how others do to get a hinch of how to do

👍: 0 ⏩: 1

mayshing In reply to ebba [2008-04-29 15:28:03 +0000 UTC]

One thing I didn't show on this wip is the use of Guidelines, we also call it path.

[link]

I also use guidelines for zooming, characters moving in and out, people usually won't see guideline layer or I will erase them. Sometimes I apply them right from my mind... so that's a part of it that's not easy to observe in my rough.

👍: 0 ⏩: 1

ebba In reply to mayshing [2008-04-29 19:34:42 +0000 UTC]

thanks for the info and link

👍: 0 ⏩: 0

Flying-Dragon In reply to ??? [2008-04-29 07:25:50 +0000 UTC]

looks good, i'd be interested to see what happens

👍: 0 ⏩: 0

fireball528 In reply to ??? [2008-04-29 03:20:29 +0000 UTC]

That's really cool. I noticed that the hair flows very well and seems very soft and mimics how hair really flows in the wind The motions of the characters seem very fluid as well.

👍: 0 ⏩: 0

MasterLilith In reply to ??? [2008-04-29 02:37:15 +0000 UTC]

Pretty cool! ^^

👍: 0 ⏩: 0

VernHoudini In reply to ??? [2008-04-29 01:15:08 +0000 UTC]

Wow! This is absolutely terrific! I'm just curious, but did you have a specific song you thought of when you were doing this?

👍: 0 ⏩: 1

mayshing In reply to VernHoudini [2008-04-29 01:19:06 +0000 UTC]

yeah, several of them.
God knows, Lost my music, from Hirano Aya
Hero, by Nickel Black...
and a couple of other rock hard songs. XD

👍: 0 ⏩: 1

VernHoudini In reply to mayshing [2008-04-29 01:23:49 +0000 UTC]

Oh wow, that's awesome. XD Hard rock is always good.

It sort of matched the song I was listening to. o.0

👍: 0 ⏩: 0

SonicEdge7 In reply to ??? [2008-01-15 00:31:13 +0000 UTC]

You gotta make the Anime for this series, it is just to cool!

👍: 0 ⏩: 0

HeroesDaughter In reply to ??? [2008-01-05 00:48:02 +0000 UTC]

It's incredibly cool! I really like the way you make the clothes move, it's quite professional.

👍: 0 ⏩: 0

becuze In reply to ??? [2008-01-03 18:55:06 +0000 UTC]

Oh wow, im blown away, so cool! ^-^

👍: 0 ⏩: 0

lenoir-whittlethorn In reply to ??? [2007-12-28 18:58:35 +0000 UTC]

Wow it looks like it'll be a wicked animation! I can already imagine music with this! Very lovely!

👍: 0 ⏩: 0

mrcontroversial In reply to ??? [2007-12-27 14:50:35 +0000 UTC]

I know we talked last time about frames per second (thanks so much for educating me, I really appreciate it. ), so I had to ask: Do you still do 24 fps in Flash as well? Or do you decide to change it up a bit? Like leavin' it at 12 fps?

👍: 0 ⏩: 1

mayshing In reply to mrcontroversial [2007-12-27 18:51:33 +0000 UTC]

I have done 12 fps, 24fps, but now I work mostly on 30fps, because music tend to be on 30 fps, if I want to match the music speed I need to work on 30 fps.

👍: 0 ⏩: 0

kidokaproject In reply to ??? [2007-12-27 08:11:53 +0000 UTC]

awesomeness!!! *_*!!!! i can't wait for the finished product
wow... wow... AAAAAAH you have really inspired me but my tablet pen's broken so i can't do anything about it T_T

👍: 0 ⏩: 0

123Omega In reply to ??? [2007-12-26 20:02:37 +0000 UTC]

I can't wait to see it when it's finish. Even though it might be to early to think about it. Have you thought of any voice actors for your animation? This piece has revive my love for animation. I wish you the best of luck on your work.

👍: 0 ⏩: 1

mayshing In reply to 123Omega [2007-12-27 18:49:43 +0000 UTC]

voice actors.......... I thought about it. There are two ways to go about it: Online audition or offline audition.
Selecting a correct voice that can act matching up to the characters will be a challenge.

👍: 0 ⏩: 1

123Omega In reply to mayshing [2007-12-28 15:43:24 +0000 UTC]

It was a challenge for me when I was making my Sonic Rock band claymation. Even though I only have a few characters, the only characters that had the right voices was Tails and Omega, and it was all thanks to my friends little brother for voice Tails. If he didn't do that I propably wouldn't be as proud as I am today about my first claymation. I hope you won't go through to much frustration finding the right voices for your characters.

👍: 0 ⏩: 0

Joichiroll In reply to ??? [2007-12-26 16:39:13 +0000 UTC]

Not really Evangelion although most fans would assume that... i think Escaflowne came to mind at once when Chris sprouted wings, and sweet Angel was like Hitomi and then this song came to mind: [link] it's really cool so far, i can't wait to see it when it's done XD

👍: 0 ⏩: 1

mayshing In reply to Joichiroll [2007-12-27 18:50:41 +0000 UTC]

I was listening to Hero- Spider man, and God Knows- Haruhi when I did this. XD

👍: 0 ⏩: 0

blingyeol In reply to ??? [2007-12-26 14:08:52 +0000 UTC]

It looks really great, just like a real opening ^^ You're very skilled with animation!

👍: 0 ⏩: 0

redcherry123 In reply to ??? [2007-12-25 22:52:35 +0000 UTC]

Sweet! Keep up the good work. I can't wait to see the finished product.

👍: 0 ⏩: 0

kristi-chan In reply to ??? [2007-12-25 07:44:51 +0000 UTC]

This is incredible! I enjoy seeing unfinished works, it gives me an inside of how the artist sees their work and how they go about bringing it to life. ^^ Splendid job, Miss Mayshing.

👍: 0 ⏩: 0

porcelain-doll-016 In reply to ??? [2007-12-25 05:28:33 +0000 UTC]

ahh...wow! I have no proper word to expresses how cool this is...I would love to know how to animate something! This is awesome it's great that you are confident enough to share your unfinished work. It looks great!

👍: 0 ⏩: 0

AngelicEmpyress In reply to ??? [2007-12-25 00:39:25 +0000 UTC]

animation is so much fun even though it takes forever! I never thought to post my WIP on the one im working on... heh..

Yours looks wonderful and i see all the effort going into it keep it up!

👍: 0 ⏩: 0

squirrelmafia In reply to ??? [2007-12-25 00:06:10 +0000 UTC]

pretty cool, look forward to seeing the finished piece, right now i'm certainly confused as to what is going on but i know its not complete yet. I also am not fond of the way you animated the mech's head moving and his eye glowing, it was too mechanical. I guess i'm just a huge hater of motion tweening, but look forward to seeing it complete.

👍: 0 ⏩: 2

mayshing In reply to squirrelmafia [2007-12-25 00:41:47 +0000 UTC]

I think it's reasonable to use motion tween and mechanical animation for the mechs to keep the parts steady. I will see to add more details to the motion later.

this one is not to tell any particular story, its more like an reqular anime opening with clips from the original manga story I made.

👍: 0 ⏩: 1

squirrelmafia In reply to mayshing [2007-12-25 02:50:21 +0000 UTC]

ah ok, so it's more so to just get you interested in the series or to give the fans of it something. Cools, it works then. Yeah I mean to each their own, i just hate the way motion tweens look unless they are really subtle, say a cloud in the bgd for instance, generally i just hate flash haha. I'm all for after effects and pencil + paper myself.

👍: 0 ⏩: 1

mayshing In reply to squirrelmafia [2007-12-25 03:15:20 +0000 UTC]

ha ha.

Actually, flash isn't so bad once you get used to it, ^^ It's good for rough animation test too when you don't get access to studio space.
I just draw roughs in flash to save time for scanning.

👍: 0 ⏩: 0

squirrelmafia In reply to squirrelmafia [2007-12-25 00:08:33 +0000 UTC]

haha just noticed how bad that sounded, too "mechanical" for animated a "mech". But to clear up what I mean best I can is it lacks that feel that the rest of the animation has, where it feels fluid and alive rather than overly smoothed out and (wow the only words I can think of are synonyms for mechanical haha) uh well I can't think of a word to put my thoughts into but I think you know what i mean

👍: 0 ⏩: 1

mayshing In reply to squirrelmafia [2007-12-25 01:47:52 +0000 UTC]

I think that's an animator's comment. XD Something only us animators would be picky on. ha ha.

I will see what I can do to unify it. Maybe using more key frame and doing parts of the claw, or simply make that slower, if I don't get over worked that is.

👍: 0 ⏩: 0

BlackStar-okuz In reply to ??? [2007-12-24 20:25:25 +0000 UTC]


This is awesome!!!
it's amazing! <-----(see I fainted)

👍: 0 ⏩: 0

ch0copudding In reply to ??? [2007-12-24 19:54:00 +0000 UTC]

wow! did u use flash? it looks really awesome for a wip!!

👍: 0 ⏩: 0

Desertfire In reply to ??? [2007-12-24 19:25:03 +0000 UTC]

Wow, this is so awesome!!

👍: 0 ⏩: 0

neosuicune In reply to ??? [2007-12-24 19:21:08 +0000 UTC]

Cool!

the final product will be awesome!

👍: 0 ⏩: 0

LossingFeathers In reply to ??? [2007-12-24 19:19:46 +0000 UTC]

you are really starting to get good at this animation stuff! I guess with time it will become faster and easier, na!

~Becca

👍: 0 ⏩: 0

Yunsildin In reply to ??? [2007-12-24 18:28:47 +0000 UTC]

*represses urge to hug* So...AWESOME!

I love it when you share unfinished animation. You do such a wonderful job. I'd say more but I just can't seem to find the right words without sounding like such a spastic fan.

👍: 0 ⏩: 0


<= Prev | | Next =>