Sketch Animation

[astarothathros]

Originally Posted by foxmaster5

Wow, didn't expect my simple suggestion to get everyone so riled up :P

And to the artist, there was no mistakes. What I said was in no way negative feedback. You clearly have a good basic understanding of animation and will only grow from here. What I pointed out was a suggestion to make the animation more polished and appealing to a bigger audience.

I'm not going to say I work as an Animation Supervisor at a certain big name animation house in Los Angeles, I'll just leave it at that. I can't draw very well, but I do know how to tell my artist how to improve their work.

Heck if you wanted to go further with this animation break the growth into three spurts each with its own hold. Then incorporate additional eye and mouth movement, every time the character is about to say something or react in a bigger way in regards to the growth, FHWOMP another spurt. Gives the viewer more to see and increases the length/impact of the animation without adding to many extra frames.

If you ever want or need any direction or feedback let me know.

Nah, I didn't get any negative attitude from your suggestion at all.

And the main reason that all of my animations so far have been short snippets is that it's hard for me to pick up an animation after leaving it, so I try to do the work in one sitting when possible. But I'm really liking the idea of doing a sequence of several growth spurts. Something with breaks built in that I can still come back to later. also growth spurts in general are a very good thing

[Comicbookbabe]

If you prefer to do it in a sitting have you thought about doing close ups in a sitting and piecing them together to make a full growth animation with specific emphasis on your favorite actions?

Or is going back and compiling all of those animations ruining the one sitting idea?

[astarothathros]

Originally Posted by Comicbookbabe

If you prefer to do it in a sitting have you thought about doing close ups in a sitting and piecing them together to make a full growth animation with specific emphasis on your favorite actions?

Or is going back and compiling all of those animations ruining the one sitting idea?

I was trying to say something similar in my previous post, yeah. I just might not have worded it properly, oops. But yeah, once I clear some of these commissions off my plate, I want to try an animation that's a little bit bigger in scale than what I've been able to do so far.

[RedJack]

Originally Posted by astarothathros

Yeah, I'm definitely glad he suggested the fix. I'm no master at art, and less so with animation, so I'm bound to make mistakes like this.

I'm really happy people seem to be enjoying the animation, too!

No one is really, but it was great even before the addition. So you need to pat yourself on the back, because Hell, any form of animation is a pain to do :/ Just remember detail is key in anything. Also it's no surprise everyone is enjoying so much, given how well it's been done, even before the add.