draw draw draw

continues screaming

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 14:45:00 -0500

*continues screaming*

This year I’m not home, so I can’t run at my mom...

Sun, 12 May 2013 17:28:00 -0500

This year I’m not home, so I can’t run at my mom with this while yelling “MOOOMMMMM!!!”

Happy Mother’s Day!

Jabberwocky assignment in character design! This class was a...

Sat, 11 May 2013 22:08:00 -0500

to me, the narrator is actually the hero's kid brother who pretends he's all-wise (and is right about the Jabberwocky!)

everyone in this village are required to wear bunny ear hoods.

Jabberwocky assignment in character design! This class was a blast and Daniel Krall is a super cool teacher.

Its done! But I can’t post it publicly yet. The last gif...

Sun, 05 May 2013 17:54:36 -0500

Its done! But I can’t post it publicly yet. The last gif is kinda how I feel about that.

oliviawhen: My lovely kohai Juliana (left) does all the work...

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 01:09:23 -0500

Juwana is da bomb.

oliviawhen:

My lovely kohai Juliana (left) does all the work for me, and makes my cute things cuter. Now to just add 5 squillion stars.

EEEEEEEE YAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYY!!!

Water study! (I ended up even more confused.)

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 16:32:20 -0500

Water study! (I ended up even more confused.)

Thanapat wanted to talk to me about drawing graphs, but we ended...

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 01:23:47 -0500

Thanapat wanted to talk to me about drawing graphs, but we ended up making this instead.

Saisho kara kimi whoa

Everytime someone calls me “kouhai.”

Sun, 31 Mar 2013 14:10:49 -0500

Everytime someone calls me “kouhai.”

Chompy Chompy Chomp!

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 20:54:00 -0500

Chompy Chompy Chomp!

Things to improve on.

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 10:00:54 -0500

Things to improve on.

Magical Bird Boys planning/doodling.

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 10:00:59 -0500

HENSHIN

GROUP POSE COORDINATION

figuring out style for comic. also red is very unobservant.

Panel test. I don't think I'm gonna go with the "rough" coloring.

will we ever see his face fully? ...no.

noooot sure if i want to include the first one as an actual design because i would hate to redraw him everytime.....

and then i redesigned like all of them

Finally happy with a design!

Magical Bird Boys planning/doodling.

Game fanart doodle dumpin’!

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 10:00:47 -0500

YOU'VE GOT THAT WRONG! SO WRONG ITS HILARIOUS!

Skies of Arcadia aka the jrpg with the happy protagonist from the 90's.

"go away zelos"

HOLD IT

listened to Vivi's theme on loop once.

THIS IS GONNA BE MY WEDDING

wow this is super old uhhh no sure if i'll finish this! D:

Game fanart doodle dumpin’!

please hire me.

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 10:01:01 -0500

please hire me.

A Pomeranian inspired violinist! Along with sketches.

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 10:01:07 -0500

A Pomeranian inspired violinist! Along with sketches.

that’s not funny, wifi-tan

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 13:45:28 -0500

that’s not funny, wifi-tan

OKAY BEFORE WE GO ON SOME NOTES: This is specifically for how I...

Sat, 09 Mar 2013 17:45:00 -0600

YEAH I CAN DO THAT

1) I use Photoshop for this because I can get certain effects with it, as well as it having a handy animation/timeline window so I can test my animation right away.

I imported my storyboard panels as a placeholder/for timing.

2) Draw the keyframes! Roughly draw them on new layers, turning on those layers for the frames they will appear in. (more in post.)

Keyframe rough animation

3) Time to do inbetweens! (more notes in post)

Here's what it looks like. Also note how I number my layers. Gotta stay organized or you'll get confused quickly!

Keyframes + inbetweens = rough animation.

4) Rendering the frames: I make a group of layers and draw in the stuff. Less layers is better. You also want to already know how you're going to animate it. More on that in the post.

Rendered frames. That's basically it but I'll explain how I export and stick them in Premier Pro, plus the final result. Keep reading if you're not bored!

OKAY BEFORE WE GO ON SOME NOTES:

This is specifically for how I make “Stay.” which I use Photoshop + Premier for reasons. This doesn’t mean this is the ONLY method on how to make this, or any animation! I can use Flash as well, but for this project I really wanted a specific look that I don’t know how to achieve in Flash. Basically, use a program that you know can cater to the look you want to achieve, and figure out how to make that happen.

LAYERS refer to your layers panel, and that is where you are drawing your stuff.
FRAMES refers to the animation/timeline window, where certain LAYERS can appear for a duration of time. You are not drawing anything here…because you can’t.

I animate with 0.1 seconds, and I export at 12fps. This is wholly up to you, though.

1) My document size is 5000x2813 at 300dpi, because I’m paranoid about losing quality ahhh ha haaa. My final short is only 1280x720. See? Paranoid.

2) To animate in Photoshop, treat the “layers” as if they were sheets of paper, and the “frames” are the ones that will be viewed. You can choose which layers to appear and what not. It can record if you shift an image up, down, left, right, but it will not remember if in one frame you rotate it 90 degress, because that alters the pixel data directly. Instead, you should copy that layer, and rotate it there. Here’s an example

There’s a magic plug-in that makes animating in Photoshop like animating in Flash, what with onion skinning and stuff, but my lazy-ass hasn’t installed it yet so I will show you how I do things my barbaric way.

3) Lower the opacity of the previous and next frame. This is called Onion Skinning, and is the same thing as if you were drawing animation on a lightbox.

I render my frames basically the same way I do most of my art. I paint a base layer, then I use clipping masks to color/detail it. Once again, this depends on your own taste: our styles may be different, so you need to figure out how to draw your own frames efficiently. Don’t make one frame 500000 layers, though, you’ll only want to kill yourself! Keep it simple.

OKAY NEXT PART

Doing the background. Yeah. …..yeah. So now it looks like THIS

I think I’m done, so its time to export the frames!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Though if you want to know how I make these GIFs:

6) Go to Image > Image Size, and make it smaller. (mine are at 400px). GIFS should always be small. Then go to File > Save for Web and Devices

Make sure its set to “GIF.” I usually to “selective” to make it smaller, if its a very short animation, “perceptual” is the best quality setting. Play with the settings and you’ll get a feel for it yourself. When you’re done, hit SAVE (done doesn’t do that), aaaaaaand you got yourself a little GIF to show off.

(don’t forget to go back in your history and change the image size back!!!! Don’t accidentally save it as the small size, I’ve done it once and I cried for a long time.)

NOW FOR EXPORTING

7) Go to File > Export > Render to Video.

MAKE SURE THE SIZE IS AT DOCUMENT SIZE. I think the default Frame Rate is 15, but I change it to 12. When you’re done, hit “render.”

8) Now that you got yourself a folder of your done images, open up your video program and import it in!

WHOOOOA WAIT, my thing was only 21-ish frames! That’s more than 21! That’s just how Photoshop will export it. If I have a frame that was held for 1 second, it will export that frame multiple times to that it will equal 1 second. You can just delete/later the frames here. (which I do, because my animation came out longer than expected.)

In Premier, I like to make a new Sequence and put those files in, then put that sequence into my main movie file. Then I do some video-y things.

Lookit that.

OKAY when its the way I want, I go to File > Export > Media, make sure the settings are what I want, then hit export. And voila! A movie file that hopefully exported right. Then I watch it 10 times for a quality check so I can go back and fix something, or I’m actually done.

Here’s the final thing:

(uh wow Youtube way to make a creepy preview image)

And that’s how I make a scene in “Stay!” Hope this helps.

Thanapat’s bday gift, who also got to watch me struggle...

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 10:00:41 -0600

Thanapat’s bday gift, who also got to watch me struggle with this and helped me solve my problems with the grass.

freakin grass

ifyougiveanartstudentabucket: Any day now. What would you do...

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 19:31:26 -0600

ifyougiveanartstudentabucket:

Any day now.

What would you do with a bucket?

oliviawhen: I had the most helpful crits & comments ever...

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 02:09:00 -0600

oliviawhen:

I had the most helpful crits & comments ever today, so I decided to start my credit illustrations, starting with my wonderfully awesome roommate Juwana.

EEEEEEEE!

At least my name is right in the credits. (everyone go shower Olivia with loooove)

Special thanks to Boone for providing his voice at the last...

Sat, 23 Feb 2013 10:01:00 -0600

Special thanks to Boone for providing his voice at the last moment!