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Phoenix-Cry — Animated: Breaking Point
Published: 2010-04-06 03:22:18 +0000 UTC; Views: 5119; Favourites: 80; Downloads: 79
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UPDATE: I said I was going to leave this painting alone...but I lied. I used my new found trick to smooth out the light effect in the restraints. I also added him closing his eyes! I'm so proud. He only does it once a cycle, so he only closes his eyes every other head dip. Enjoy this extra two hours of work!This is my last work up on this painting for a while. I tried to add sweat...but it was really creepy...so was the blood. So I just changed the sync of the head and breath. So enjoy this!
Working hard on my 'living picture' skills. I kept the other animation of Spock up cause I liked how subtle it was. I learned how to use a 'switch layer' to add some glow affect to the restraints. I may add animated sweat and blood (if I do I'll just update this one). I also changed the head motion to try and keep it from moving exactly like the breathing chest.
Anyway, Spock of Star Trek during a scene in my novel Treason.
Enjoy!!
Thanks to for pointing this animation program out out to me!
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That would be AWESOME!! this is already a scene from one of my fics, but I'd love to see someone eles's take on it!
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Oh cool, which one is it? I'd love to read it before I start my own 
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Well it is like 20 chapters into my second book 'Treason', starts with 'Exile'. If you just want the chapter I can hunt it down.
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If that's not too much to ask, I can try it myself if you're too busy?
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I'm sure I can hunt it down...it might not make much sense though being in the middle of a story.
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I was looking through your works for ages but I could'nt find it!
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Here's the chapter: [link]
Kirk got Shanghaied and ended up on Romulus, Spock (disguised as a Romulan) went alone to try to rescue him, but didn't make it very far.
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Thanks, I really appreciate it
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This style of animation is so cool. I love how painterly it is, and the motion is really beautiful.
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Thank you! It uses a program called Anime Studio and it physically warps different layers of the drawing to form a smooth motion.
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Wonderful! What program did you use exactly to draw and which to make the animations?
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I used Paintshop pro elements to draw and then Anime Studio 6 to animate where you have 'bones' in the drawing on layers so you don't animate frame by frame, but rather by warping the image.
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Fantastic. Never saw something like that before. Keep going.
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Thanks! I used a program called Studio Anime that has bones, so I have the moving parts on layers and then connect the bones and they stretch and warp the painting.
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Holy...! This. Awesomeness. Hard work. Fantastic colouring. Wow!
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Thanks! I took hours and hours and hours to get the original painting done and then weeks of work to make it do this. I'm pleased you noticed!
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No probs! You strike me as a perfectionist like myself. Spend hours and hours getting it just right...and then you tweak it just a bit more and then again! Fantastic.
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Heyyy!! It's me again!
I got anime studio pro 7
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Hmmmmm....I remember now. I had to make each layer into a clear gif and import them on top of one another to create the layers.
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LOVE! I'm so glad I found this. I've read your stuff on ff.net a while back (sailor vulcan) and rl took over and I haven't kept up, sorry! This is fantastic and sexy shiny. I totally wish I had a way to learn to paint digitally, I love the depth and subtle roughness of your paintings. Best DA random find of the month
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Sailor Vulcan! 
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wow. that's nice. I'm getting anime studio 6 right now 
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this is amazing. You hafta tell me which program you used to animate this. I want to do the same to my drawings. This is awesome. Is it easy to use after all?
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I used Anime Studio 6, it's only like 50$. You need to do your drawings on layers to make the 'bones' feature work. It is easy to use after a bit of a learning curve. I'm glad you like!
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This is so amazing. I can't stop to looking up to.
You have a great talent.
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Thank you so much! this is my all time fav animation, I don't even want to think about how many hours went into it.
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Thank you!! I am not drawing these animations frame by frame which is the traditional way (well, a few things in here are frame by frame, like the eyelid) I'm using a program called Anime Studio which allows you to attach transparent png files to 'bones' and warps them. It still takes a lot of time, but it makes for nice smooth motion.
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Thanks, Will remember that
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Every time you post this it becomes a touch more lifelike than the last! 
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I'm slowly working on perfection with this one. 
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That's cool! Yeah, thinking about it now it'd look a touch better if the shoulders and arms were going. Maybe the hands, too x3
But the EYES are awesome! The way that he's blinking looks like he's just absolutely exhausted.
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Yup, I'm going to mess around with it a little more to move the shoulders. I'm so pleased that the eye blink makes him look exhausted because that's exactly what I was going for. I wanted this to have a sense of true weariness.
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OMFG, this just TUGS my heartstrings like crazy! Poor Spock
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Pulling on heartstrings is exsactly what I was going for! Poor Spock, he's so tired.
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i know, where's a hug-a-character-through-the-screen device when you absolutely NEED it!?
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