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Mikeinel β How I Made 'Draw with Me'
Published: 2009-04-10 03:28:17 +0000 UTC; Views: 270829; Favourites: 5799; Downloads: 7536
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I don't have much to show, but, I want to give a lil gift as a 'thank you' for those who reported the art thief in Newgrounds...It's not really useful, but, I just hope i'm able to show some things for people to learn... It's recommended to know how to use Photoshop and AfterEffects first before looking at it...
I've also added an animated gif showing how a scene was prepared element by element... (Click 'Download'... 6mb tho)
Video: [link]
Edit:
'Kay, i tried counting and the total frames are approx 964... (that excludes the frames for non-animating elements)
Edit2:
Due to sudden changes DA implemented regarding GIF files with preview image, I decided to remove the gif to make the tut show up again
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la historia es muy linda, me encanto el video!...
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thats like a novel >.>, how gonna know all of that?
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I love the animation, watched the video 9 times... And i can't drawn this
I love I love I love...
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Did your girl friend like it? Its kinda sad and if my bf made this for me, Id be thinking 'so we will never be together? will we always be seperated inside? does he rly love me or not'?
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I made this following your tutorial:
[link]
Thanks again for explaining your process!!
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Thank you for making this tutorial!! ; ^ ; <333
Just curious, what tool do you use to make the "darkness on the sides" of the frame?
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I have a question. Is the MOV file transparent that you can layer the animations? The girl and the boy are on different layers. Or do you have to filter out the background colour?
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That was the cutest thing I think I have ever seen. I hope your gf loved it, cuz that would be the coolest present ever. Well done!
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Amazing animation and great tutorial~! I'd love to see some more about elements- like how to animate the foreground, middleground, background.
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Thanks 
by the way I Loved your video very much ^^ ..
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*sniff sniff* oh my gahd its so cute D':
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umm i saw your animation today while going around youtube
it was the best animation i've seen before and when i tried looking
for it on deviant i found it i think and so i found this and started reading it
and it looks hard to animate this
How long did it took you?
and one more thing the gift tht she gave him was it his arm or her arm?
cuz i was thinking maybe it got cut off and landed on the other side of the glass
where she was and she tossed it over or did she do the same thing and gave
him her arm. can u plz answer ty
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She had her arm removed and gave it to him, which is why at the end of it all, he has a pink/yellow arm rather than a blue/purple one.
and also, he said how long it took in the artist description here on dA..
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Where did you get the music for this? DA seems to be really strict on having music in animations.
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you are soo epic and amazing and that video is adorable and... just awesome. 
this is a bit confusing (*mostly because I don't use Photoshop. I use gimp...because it's free and i haz NO money.) But it does show how much work you put into the video and it's beyond words impressive.
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thanks for the guide i love this style of animation and i always wanted to do one but i didn't know how to but now that i do i am going to go make one
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This video was actually the thing that made me come to DA XD I was at my friends house and she said "Wanna see something really cute?" and I watched it and I loved it so much XD I think its so cute you made it for your GF Thanks for being the inspiration for me joining DA :3
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That girl better freaking MARRY you for how long and complex that looks!!!
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p.s. can I use your idea for colours and backgrounds? I think it's genius
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I love u story, I try to make my own... I'll send u if I finish of course if u want
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Your so sweet. Amazing video.
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I really liked that video! It's nice of you to let us know the process. Thanks a lot!
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THIS WAS AN AWESOME VID~
btw, i wonder if they could just fly all the waaaaaaaaayyy over the glass >.> but then its meaningless
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well-like-
use a contraption or something.. >.>
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So after making all those scene how do you put them together? with another program or...?
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Thanks so much!
I'm an art student majoring in animation and this helps a bunch!!!!
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Its official. I've looked at three exceptionally well done animation tutorials, but none of them make sense to me. Perhaps I'll just stick to flip books and hand-drawn animation...
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I saw the video...and...I love it!^^
You worked really much at it and the story is incredible...
After you know the entire process you can realize that only people with patience,talent and dedication can do this!OoO
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wow!!!
I"M a fan of you mr. mike inel!!!
are you a filipino too??
you're drawings are surely great!!!
PLEASE!
tell me how to create good stories like your DRAW WITH ME....
^^
i'll be happy if you'll teach me!!!
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a question.....do you make the frames on layers, or you just draw them on a white layer???
or - do you fill the layers before you draw on them??
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This is simply awesome. Keep it up!
All of this is inspiringβ¦
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what the fack you created that animation!!!! what the fack what the fack i love it man i really really love it so much that i really cried when i was watching it, damn it your good man your pretty damn good damn it damn it daMN IT!!!!!!!!!! =A=
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I LOVED that animation so much! My boyfriend showed me a link to is and I cried so much (happy tears though). VERY good job on it!
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oh i loved this so much 8D i liked how patient are you XD
i have a question, do you think i can make a good animation like that using adobe flash ???
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but you'll be one very soon !! if you want to !!
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You could try making a large animation in Flash by first setting the canvas size and then create the animation either by using Flash's timeline, and actually drawing the thing in Flash, or by using Flash's timeline but making the actual drawing in another vector drawing application, like Illustrator. No actionscripting is really required, but bone tool requires Actionscript 3.0 to be in use. The document can be switched to Actionscript 2.0 later on, if needed (but that requires poses made using bonetool to be flattened and made non-dynamic). If you haven't already, you should also check Flash's Motion tweening abilities.
A bit time since your original message, but I'm pointing this message to all the ones reading this page. Including Mike, if he's still using *cough* Photoshop to make his animations (I hope he's not). No offence tho, the final result of "Draw with me" was superb IMO, it's just that... To me, making a long animation mostly in PS is like... stabbing yourself in the name of hard work.
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I've used adobe flash to make a small animation after i wrote you this ^^ but i couldn't learn all it's secrets and it wasn't that advanced program but must learn as a start! and i've tried useing bone tool but it didn't give the result i needed so i made all the drawing "traditionally" . this discussion was one of the worst one I've ever made cuz it took me ages and the result was really bad!! but gotta fail at first time .____.
thank you for replying and i'll work harder and start learning After effects ^^
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I'm glad if I helped even a bit.
I haven't really used After effects - I should, but I haven't - so it's kind of hard to say anything about that except I guess it's awesome.
But still, if you want to tease yourself with more professional (defined by a) features b) price) software, you might want to check Toon Boom Animate as example. As said, I'm not an animator, that was just the first Google result I got, and it looked kewl.
Official website: [link]
Youtube channel (and related playlist): [link]
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yes I know toom boom they said it's one of the greatest 2D animation software, and am really excited to learn more about it . thank you so much 8D am not an animator as well but animation is great >w<
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iv never tried doing a animation before ill think ill try it
abusolutey love your vid by the way
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...Ok I gotta know, what did he do with her arm?
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I cried at your animation. It was very touching.
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that animation was lovely. <3 although, slightly depressing. hahah! but i think that makes it more touching. this is a very great tutorial! thank you!
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