tanuki scoot scoot

    So I finally went back and finished the overlapping action. When I started this clip weeks ago I was still using my tanuki character but I didn't finish adding details on him. This time I only did the tail and the wink frame by frame. I made the actual tanuki on the scooter move by using the key frames. I was honestly going to frame by frame everything but I changed my mind and decided to experiment with more options. I'm so surprised how it turned out. I honestly wish I did this in more than a few days because after experimenting with it, I was impressed and excited to do more. I guess that's for another time.

 

Dialogue

 So I got a good amount of my dialogue project done. I was hoping to clean it up more but this is as far as I got. Its supposed to be a friends scene but I think he looks more like me than Chandler lol.

Weight

     So this one took FOREVER. I didn't separate the limbs to different layers and it made drawing this HELL. Definitely learned that the hard way. Between the legs moving and the feet shifting, I had to redraw frames over and over. Luckily the bar was a sperate frame so I was able to animate that relatively easy. If I come back to this, I'll have him drop the bar but for now I'm glad he got it up lol.

Run Cycle

I'm actually pretty ecstatic about how this turned out. Wish I separated the sword on another layer though, I could have kept its shape far easier if I did. Based this run off a Megaman walk cycle and used one of my OCs as the character. My OC usually wears a short sleeve jacket though, so it going back and cleaning it up I had to remove it. If I had a bigger tablet, this would have been way easier to put details like that and hair on. It's ok though, for now I'm glad it's moving.

Keeping up is hard

     Keeping up with this Blog is harder than I thought. I've been working on a lot of commissions lately and trying to keep up with school work but usually when I'm animating I make one mistake that I just have to make work sometimes which keeps me working on things way longer than I should. Been feelin really discouraged lately.  Supposed to be finished with this logo for a podcast by next week and the medallion is for a flyer that luckily is now due in January. Either way, this is just some personal work I've been doing.

Hair Flip and Head Turn

Note to self: Long hair is not fun to animate lol. I got lost in the hair that volume and consistency went by the wayside. At the very least, I got more in betweens this time than last time. I think maybe 3 more frames would make this solid. I actually will redo this one, because I actually enjoyed this project more than the others. When I tell you the sense of accomplishment from seeing the full turn, even limited, was the best part of 2020 lol I mean it.

If you notice the girl I was drawing for Digital Drawing practice was the design I wanted for this character. Maybe if I figure out how to draw on Toon Boom better, I can accomplish that.

 

Sack Boy Waving

So this was really had to animate because I kept trying to just copy the sack boy and editing it, but every time I did that it would change every frame of the character. I eventually started redrawing it in every frame just to get this. It was so time consuming and terrible. I since learned to use the timeline FAR BETTER. This just taught me how much in betweens are important. I do not want to do this kind of thing ever again lol.

 

Keep Forgetting to Update

 I keep forgetting to update this blog, which is sad because I actually enjoy doing this. Anyway, here's some stuff I was doing to practice Digital Drawing lol.

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.