My first ever walk cycle. I have to give a great guys named Waytoons with help on learning how to nest feet inside symbols. There is a lot of room for improvement but just finally finishing one is a big step forward for me.
Mar
30
I was watching South Park last night and decided to try and make a little Cartman inspired Avatar as a first small animation test. I also wanted to set out and see if I could actually get .swf files to import into wordpress. They did, but it broke the validation of the site. I will have to figure out a work around.
(toon done in AS)
Mar
20
I have been a little burned out lately on 3d and decided that for the summer of 2007 to take a break, loosen up a bit and try my hand at some 2d. I have felt myself in need of something new and last Friday I discovered a program that was just that.
Following a random course of unrelated links I fortuitously ended up at Anime Studio. With a little time on my hands I decided to download and play with it a bit. WOW Is all I can say! I have not really been a big fan of 2d cartoons but this bone based software made it so easy and fun to animate that I couldn’t help but buy it.
The outcome of my first test with the software is a little on the annoying side (my fault completely for the voices), but it at least hits a little of the main techniques of the software (this is a personal study only, the tutorials are much better than this example). In about 30 minutes I was able to draw and animate a very simple lip sync and get the basic of the drawing tools.
I’m not worthy to giving a full review at this time, but lets just say that I have not been this excited in a software package in many years. The freedom from the complexity of 3d software is a nice change and I intend to explore this software in great depths over the summer.
If you would like to see the what this software is capable of in skilled hands just take a look at the Anime Studio Gallery.
Animation Test: “Yack” (00:03)