Eternal sunshine

c o r a l i n e ... the missing scene

'Chigurh's ride', A short preview

Hi, here's a first little sequence including a simple soundtrack. It will be part of the scene 2; Chigurh driving his stolen car...

Ian Worrel

two animations with a nice 'hand drawing' feel.....just for inspiration/motivation :]

http://ianworrel2.blogspot.com/

http://ianworrel3.blogspot.com/

and their maker's blog

The BBB Train is about to depart!!!

Hello everyone, The Beeld, Beweging en Beleving ( yes, Image, Motion, Experience you know...;) is starting again, and we are ready to dive into the world of animation and storyboarding!
Here below I post again some tutorials that I found useful to get the basis of what animation is about. They help you in starting on the right foot instead of ending up tearing your hair out in desperation...so download the tuts at the links below and enjoy!
ps: one link is for photoshop brushes that may help you draw more wicked characters ....


walkcycle3-4.zip
walkcycle.zip
stop frame animation.zip
photoshop.brushes.zip
make lip synching easy.zip
character_anima.zip
animating scenery in after effects.zip
animatic in after effects.zip
animate a character in after effects.zip

Walter Brouwer: Shawshank Revenge

Gwen Huisman: 'Blade Drooler'

Final(ly) Movie Uploaded

The final movie can be found on YOUTUBE!!

"leave no Groom behind"
inspired on:

Tim Burtons, Corpse Bride


if link does not work..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWkrXon2C1w

Enjoy!
Kind regards Hylke DUinsbergen

Walk cycle 3/4

Another simple walk cycle, this time seen 3/4 view, the character is just drawn in Flash, may have been influneced by this neighbor kid next door, a bit of a bully, anyway, if you think is something you can use in your animation, please download the .fla

enjoy! :)

Walkcycle

Here's a basic walkcycle, I thought some of you have a character walking and this is a good start to tweak it for your own animation, please download my .fla

The left arm has a texture, a piece of clothing grabbed from a texture library, that is then masked inside the symbol, in this way you can also create your body parts, just an idea..;)

If you want to move your character across, say from left to right, you can select all the frames and then right click on the highlighted frames and 'copy frames', then make a new symbbol, f8, and then 'paste frames', after that you can drag your symbol on the stage and animate it...

Also for the people working in after effects is possible to animate your character in Flash and then import the .swf into your AE project for the rest of the animation...

Flash animation sample

Some of you have asked me to upload a character animation I showed last week in class, here is the .fla which you can download and study. This is just to give some ideas on how to organise your assets in Flash and prepare the animation.

Please keep in mind that this is only one way, ( and probably not the easiest), to approach your character animation, but it can give you a jump start in getting started. All the elements, face, eyes, etc, were drawn in Illustrator and then imported in Flash, Ctrl-Cmnd r.

If you prepare your visuals in Photoshop you have to save each element as .png format with transparent background, then import it in Flash.

Any questions, post them here!

The size of your animation

Important:
The size of your animation needs to be 1050 wide x 576 high. This is the wide screen format,(sexy!), in After Effects you will find it if you make a new composition and choose under the presets menu PAL D1/DV Widescreen Square Pixel.
In Flash you just need to chnage the stage size in the properties panel.

Any questions, just post them here...:)

Lego Rocks!

Who needs 3d when you can do it with a box of lego and stop motion animation??

Gorillaz fan

Thank you all for showing your work yesterday, is getting exciting!, i will post more tips and comments later about the planning, in the meantime this Gorillaz fan video is interesting for our project because it combines hand drawn lines, photoshop color retouches to the characters, and a simple use of architecture backgrounds to make the animation less static....even if you don't like the music, the way the animation is set up, drawings in photoshop then imported in after effects with few animated elements and masks, the result is quiet charming and effective..:)

Say Fuggy fuggy!

This animation is great: a simple theme, basic storyline, endless variations, easy to draw=easy to animate...;) enjoy!
Here is the link