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Published: 2007-04-19 23:44:03 +0000 UTC; Views: 3985; Favourites: 44; Downloads: 1534
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and my second-year final animation is finished! woohoo! (now I have to get cracking on the essay, projects and test-studying that I've been putting off for weeks... >>; )but anyhow. we all had to choose a proverb from a list and run with it, and mine was originally 'fools rush in where angels fear to tread', but it just got too complicated and long so I had to switch and pare it all down
still hey, I'm really happy with this, I feel like I've improved and learned a lot this year technique-wise, and the music was a last-minute addition so I'm really pleased with how that turned out too. hope everyone likes! 
sucky, tiny, soundless version uploaded here. I heard that dA is picky with background music and such for some reason, so I didn't upload the original version here. go here to see the real version: [link] it takes less time to load anyway, it's such a big file
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Wow. WOW! It's amazing! You're so good ^_^ I love the swans, they're so pretty! And the little one is cuute
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that was awesome! I have a final 20 second animation due soon and its barely started haha I am screwed I hope mine turns out half as good as yours lol or at least finished... hahah
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LOL I'm sure you'll do a great job! Your characters have so much life. I want to see your animation
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haha thanks so much! I just posted part of my final but its just a one liner haha Its all I have done so far the rest is due wednesday and I have four scenes to do still hahahaha SOOOO SCREWED I AM!
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Niiiice! I think it's just awesome... the animation's frames are really smooth and crisp, especially considering you did them all on paper (right..?) ESPECIALLY the ...duckling... tern... jester's cap (LOL) ... loved it.
BTW, I read somewhere about having halos... on the swans...? I was thinking.... would it be possible to draw one halo, cut it out, and keep moving it along?
... but that's just so me, I just love taking the easy way out
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haha of course! and shot the old way too >
....HAHAHAHAHAHA. so sorry, but knowing how the process works, that is absolutely ridiculous and way more trouble than it's worth. xD
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Yeaaaaah, old-fashioned animation's the way to go 
Well you're the art undergrad... I'm just a bum/slacker, so whatever I say doesn't really matter.
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...are you talking to the right person?? What projects? O_o;
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That is seriously amazing. You've totally made my day! Man, you're talented!
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MAN, the animation was so smooth, I mean, it looked like Disney 2d animation.
the little joker duck (if that is what you want to call it) was so cute,
shame that he was rejected by the swans at first.
the swans are such stuck ups.
This is going into my favorites.
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The swans weren't meant to be stuck-ups so much as just.. different from the duck. They prefer things being calm and peaceful and pretty and so when a little duck comes along wrecking their peaceful morning it's just annoying to them. Can't really blame them, I think xD but then I'm sympathetic to all my characters (even the MONSTERBIRD. poor guy just wanted a snack. xD)
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Wow that is soo adorable! Your animations are soo smooth! How do you do it!? Gosh i wish i could animate like you!
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it's alllllllll in the in-betweens. that's all I can say. >D my teacher is awesome and he taught me so much this year.
and hey, you're a good animator yourself
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lol! I normally just go through frame by frame, i should really try starting with keyframes though, then my animations may make more sense lol! Do you use a lightbox when you are animating?
Thankies! More coming soon XD
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Keyframes are good not for making sense - I animated my first film mainly straight-ahead, and I like to think it still makes sense - but for consistency. Keyframes and inbetweening help you make sure your characters look the same and make for much smoother animation
yes I do
yay!
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Yeah o-o; my characters shrink with every frame... I probably should work on that =3. Like the animation i just uploaded, the anthro form is smaller than the quad lirl, that was not supposed to happen X.X
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oh I clicked the think...that little duck thing is so cute!
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*cries* I couldn't see it! it only downloaded in a size smaller than my pinky nail..I could only just make out a swan
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LOL, I did post in the desc about why I uploaded the tiny sucky version onto dA xDDD it takes forever to upload it onto their server, too xP glad you liked :3
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Aww, that's so sweet!! You're amazing at animation... and I love those character designs, too!
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thats cool !!!!!!!
'tis the first time i saw one of your animations... i wasn't able to see your first one but really well done!!! *patpat*
can't wait till you make a feature film, should you get the chance
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aw man! first one is here: [link]
I'm actually still proud of it o.o
ahaha, heh. it takes so much more than just one person to make a feature film o_o; but I hope to help with the things someday
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haha, i also like the first one
i could def. tell you enjoyed doing this.
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I love that duck! And the animation is amazing, Swift n.n
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That is terrific! That little duck is the cutest thing I've ever seen. I love how you interpreted the proverb into it, with the fool's hat. Ker-mazing! I'm so envious. :3
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I am SO GLAD you caught that :3 I loved it too much as a part of his design to scrap it, even after I changed my proverb. so yay.
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I watched the full version. That was awesome!
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OH SO COOL! I love your animations they are like gummyworms/hounds/sex all rolled into one. I like the little duck LOL so cute. XD I love the music too.
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HEEHEE NOW I KNOW WHAT YOU LIKE >D
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eeee, so glad you like :3
and NO, HAHA. that was artistic license. I figure swans don't really have curly wings and ducks don't have jesterhats growing out of their heads, so a hugeass MONSTERBIRD that preyed on swans might exist in that world too xDDD
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SPIN DOCTORS! *giggles uncontrolably*
I love it. It's almost like the ugly duckling story, but...not. The style you did the swans in was so perfect, and the little birdie's adorable. ^.^
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YES SPIN DOCTORS.
so glad you like!
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Aweeeesome, i couldnt imagine doing an animation in anything other than flash.. seems like it would take foreverrrrr. Really great work though, nice and smooth and at least you can tell whats going on, i've had some crazy nonsense animations spring up before XD
Fun fun, hope you got a good grade on that
And i lovethat little jester hat type head on the duck XD
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LOL aw, it doesn't take that long xD it's just drawing after all, so it only takes forever if you take a long time putting a new sheet of paper on top of the old one 
heehee, the original proverb that inspired me was 'fools rush in where angels fear to tread', so I based their character designs around that :3 the swans originally had halo-type markings on their heads too but that was too annoying to animate x3
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Really? Well i draw, dogs anyways, a lot better on the computer than on paper for some reason... I should try animating on paper... But you'd have to scan it all in afterwards? And then what program would you load it onto?
Ah well, you did a sweet job anyways <3
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*is slow at replying to comments* x_o;;;
scanning it in yields the best results, since you can clean up and tweak each individual frame in photoshop or what have you. you can also cut out the characters and put them on another background. For this project I used a camera connected to Adobe Premiere to 'shoot' my film, which automatically makes it a QuickTime-compatible clip. Much easier and less hassle, but you'd have a harder time editing the footage (heck, I don't even know how I'd go about doing that!). One of my friends developed a method using a tripod for her digital camera; she takes a picture of each frame and saves it, thus giving us the advantages of both: simple to import into the computer, and easily editable. I need to try that out when I get home
Programs depend on which method you use, though if you were scanning or using my friend's method, photoshop or whatever you were opening it in would be fine. Adobe ImageReady would probably work for compositing the frames (though I don't know how); I personally use Adobe After Effects since it's what I was taught to use and I know my way around it fairly well.
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Haha its okay.
Both ways make sense i guess, though they still seem like a pain... oh well! i'm sure i'll end up using them at some point or another
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Haha! Oh man! The little duck is the cutest thing ever! And the swans are so pretty!!! Very awesome animation!
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