Sack Boy Gestures

  OK. OK. OK. So I loved this lol. I kinda wish I made more of them. It was not easy using a flour sack but I tried. The order of actions from top left to bottom right are: Neutral, Drinking, Sword attack, Thinking, Anger, Sleep, Startled, and Run/Walk. This was a lot of fun bc it reminded me of when I use to doodle chibi OCs in class when I was bored. I could literally do this all day. Like LITERALLY lol. The only one that really got me was the sword one and the drinking one. For drinking it was hard to use the top of the sack as an arm to hold the cup from that angle but I think if I rounded the top more and pushed it back it would have worked better. The sword one was hard because he was supposed to have his back to the screen but it still looks like he has his front to the camera instead. (yes its a mini Buster Sword lol) Part of me wants to have it switched to him facing forward but the action seems to broken to me. I think thats the biggest problem going from humans to sack though lol.

Animating a Ball

 

        I told you I was struggling lol. But yea, I'm not too happy with how this turned out. I was trying to figure out how to make the ball fly in fast by stretching, but I wasn't really sure how much was too much or too little. I found a cool screen shot of the Flash from the justice league and he was literally a giant red blob in like 1 frame so I kind used that as reference. But also keeping the balls form was hard. I'm really not use to drawing digitally on a tablet, but I'm also not use to toon boom yet, so there was a lot of inconsistencies with the ball and my little Tanuki got difficult to animate and break too. I felt pressed for time so I made it a rough gif, but I plan on going back to it once I learn more. Or I might use it to experiment and learn more about the program itself. 

Trash Panda Introductions

 

   So this is a late post, but things happen I guess. Covid has made literally everything a struggle but we push though. I'm Kareem and I'm an awkward guy trying to make people laugh and stuff. I've never really had a blog before, other than my instagram accounts, but we learnin new things every day. My hustle game is ON POINT! I actually like the idea for a blog as participation more than interacting in class all the time, it feels performative sometimes. Like I love critiques, but sometimes I really have nothing to say other than "that was cool" or "I can tell you worked really hard on that" but I feel like my grade depends on me saying something all the time. PLUS, now I can post about cool animation things I've seen recently to document things. Like I saw the trailer for Urbance recently and it was so cool to look at, but I'm also a sucker for the Urban Pop Art graffiti vibe. A dream would be to make a animation series one day, but honestly I'd just love a job where I work in design and can do animation stuff on the side. I feel like I've been in love with animation my whole life. My first memory is playing Chrono Trigger and drawing the characters in action poses. I've been a Square Enix stan since I was like 3 years old, lol. If there was anything that made me want to do animation it's probably a combination of those japanese animation tricks where they would make really detailed animation that are re used like Sailor Moon transformations, Final Fantasy 7 and Chrono Trigger attack animations, and basically everything in Mob Psycho 100. I've never really done any animating before but I'm really enjoying it, ToonBoom makes it SO EASY. I'm still not use to digital painting and drawing, but I'm learning it as I go and I think I'm getting more and more comfortable with it. Hopefully when this class is over I can be animating little attack animations for my OCs. OH and dances! Kpop dances would be fun to animate too. (probably hard af too lol) 

    I'll figure out how to make this blog look nice (I hope) as the semester goes on, but I'm gonna keep it simple for now. When I do though, it'll probably be tanuki themed with some graffiti stuff. I use to do a decent amount of graffiti like any neighborhood degenerate lol. But with how little I sleep, the bags under my eyes make me look like a racoon, and honestly am I much different from a racoon? I just thought Tanukis might be a bit more palatable than a racoon.