At 1/14/08 12:32 PM, Xeptic wrote: Since this thread seems to have been revived I might as well showcase something too! This is a try-out for a new animation I'm working on. I'm focussing on the backgrounds at the moment because I plan to rotoscope the characters once my tablet arrives (any day now). It's also the first time ever I've used bitmap fills in an animation. I really like them so far, they give the entire thing a darker grittier feel.

I'm loving it too. Somehow the entire style feels kinda gta-ish. I like how you can see the materials clearly with the bitmaps

At 1/14/08 12:32 PM, Xeptic wrote: Since this thread seems to have been revived I might as well showcase something too! This is a try-out for a new animation I'm working on. I'm focussing on the backgrounds at the moment because I plan to rotoscope the characters once my tablet arrives (any day now). It's also the first time ever I've used bitmap fills in an animation. I really like them so far, they give the entire thing a darker grittier feel.

Looks really nice and can't wait to see it finished. Looks really nice and fluid....though it moved abit slow for me...not sure if it was planned that way or not.

The zooming is quite slow, so that might be it. There's going to be a pretty long dialog in that scene, so I'm not sure yet what I'll do with the camerawork to fill up that time. I think I'll have a few random characters moving about in the background, trying to keep things interesting.

Thanks for the comments though guys!

Turns out my college only has a trail version of Safari so i cant upload things. Oh well, here is my self portrait.

At 1/15/08 08:16 PM, 23450 wrote: Turns out my college only has a trail version of Safari so i cant upload things. Oh well, here is my self portrait.

That's a pretty neat art style there....You know...if the shirt was white, and had a disgusted scowl on the face, you'd look like the Angry Video Game Nerd guy. That was my first though when I saw the image. I don't mean that as an insult in any way, and not calling you a nerd :)

http://cinemassacre.com/AVGN/Nes_Nerd.ht ml

At 1/16/08 02:51 PM, Sneakers wrote: That's a pretty neat art style there....You know...if the shirt was white, and had a disgusted scowl on the face, you'd look like the Angry Video Game Nerd guy. That was my first though when I saw the image. I don't mean that as an insult in any way, and not calling you a nerd :)

Besides me being a little leaner then him, i'd have to agree. Not that im not a nerd, just not to the extent of him. lol.

This is for my megaman flash a little scene

something I made in like 20 minutes :X

Neat pictures...look forward to the Mega Man Flash movie.

At 1/17/08 02:26 AM, Kwazy wrote: This is for my megaman flash a little scene

Yes, i like the litle blur on the arm. Gives it some depth at least.

I'm a manga artist wannabe here is a picture of the main charecter at the bottem of screen I sorta messed up, I'm a lot better with paper and pencil. Hope u all enjoy it.

At 1/17/08 02:26 AM, Kwazy wrote: This is for my megaman flash a little scene

Looks like he has an ! on his head.

Haven't seen this thread in a while - here's a screenshot from a movie I just started so it can stay on the first page a little longer.

At 1/19/08 12:14 AM, ConAir wrote: Haven't seen this thread in a while - here's a screenshot from a movie I just started so it can stay on the first page a little longer.

Wow....that's pretty slick looking.....bet the movie will be worth the wait.

My character Talis

At 1/21/08 09:26 PM, Sneakers wrote: My character Talis

wow this is a long living thread, and your still here?!?! geez

anyway, your good at art, i suck at it, it might be because I can only use my mouse though...

At 1/19/08 12:14 AM, ConAir wrote: Haven't seen this thread in a while - here's a screenshot from a movie I just started so it can stay on the first page a little longer.

Connor you have some of the best staging around. I'd go so far as to say it's on par with Luis. Genius work. Can't wait for the toon!

I havent upload a image anywhere in ages, hope i do it right.

[IMG]http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y2 71/volcumhabitat182/BurnCarbsGamePlay2.j pg[/IMG]

[IMG]http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y2 71/volcumhabitat182/BurnCarbsGamePlay.jp g[/IMG]

Game im doing art for, 2nd pic is napalm gernade fire (looks better in animation, by alot)

these were sent through pain =/

if this doesnt work i look preety stupid

Well both of those images are napalm gernade fire, oh well.

At 1/21/08 10:45 PM, NG-Unit wrote:

At 1/21/08 09:26 PM, Sneakers wrote: My character Talis

wow this is a long living thread, and your still here?!?! geez

ain't it though? :) And yep, still here...was gone for a long time, and just grew majorly while I was away.

anyway, your good at art, i suck at it, it might be because I can only use my mouse though...

I drew that picture with a mouse too. Just takes practice to get used to drawing with a mouse.

At 1/19/08 12:14 AM, ConAir wrote: Haven't seen this thread in a while - here's a screenshot from a movie I just started so it can stay on the first page a little longer.

That's pretty cool stuff.. How did you get the windows to look like that? With a jpeg?

At 1/22/08 12:26 AM, DarkHabit wrote:

Game im doing art for, 2nd pic is napalm gernade fire (looks better in animation, by alot)

these were sent through pain =/

if this doesnt work i look preety stupid

Reminds me of Alien Hominid<sp?> but a tad different. intresting looking game.

At 1/21/08 11:08 PM, MRat wrote::

Connor you have some of the best staging around. I'd go so far as to say it's on par with Luis. Genius work. Can't wait for the toon!

Woah, thanks! I dunno about being on par with Luis, but if there's one thing I ever learned from him, it's the importance of presentation. I'm keeping my characters a little more loose in terms of drawing/animation in this one, but I'm doing the backgrounds in all photoshop so it's a little different from the whole "draw in flash then import it" thing I'm used to. I hope I get to see more of your stuff this year too, you're getting better and better every time I see something new from you.

At 1/22/08 10:39 AM, AloneInTheDark wrote: That's pretty cool stuff.. How did you get the windows to look like that? With a jpeg?

Uh, it's a little complicated now that I think about it but I'll try to explain it the best I can. The background's completely drawn with the photoshop brush tool, so I basically just zig zagged with blues until I got the windows to look like the door does now. After that, I brought it into flash, cut the windows out with the lasso tool (if there's one thing I'm grateful for in Flash CS3 it's the addition of the polygon lasso) and put those on a layer below the photoshopped background. In between those two layers I drew a big puffy cloud type thing with a big white brush on 75% alpha, and afterwards I just put some big blur on it - probably around 30 or 40. So basically that cloud slowly moves while the credits come up so it looks like clouds moving in the reflection of the glass.

At 1/22/08 12:26 AM, DarkHabit wrote: Game im doing art for

The art of the character looks really good, but I think it might be a little too different from the background in terms of quality. I'd redraw the background to look a little more crisp like Alien Hominid's background with the dark outlines to match the characters style. Va-JJ apartments - I'm sure you had a field day coming up with the building names haha, I know I would.

yay, flashing again :)

is that the city movie you showed me that one time in 1934?

At 1/23/08 02:37 PM, AloneInTheDark wrote: yay, flashing again :)

It looks amazing man, I loved the other screenshot as well, when are you planning to release it?

At 1/23/08 02:37 PM, AloneInTheDark wrote: yay, flashing again :)

cool :)

At 1/23/08 02:39 PM, Luis wrote: is that the city movie you showed me that one time in 1934?

Yeah. I planned to work on it sooner, but *cough* a certain collab *cough cough* came up that i really wanted to be in *cough*.... Nah j/k :)
Thanks Xeptic and sneakers too. I don't know when it will be released yet, I'm working at a much slower pace as i used to, but i think it'll be worth the wait :)

At 1/23/08 02:54 PM, AloneInTheDark wrote:
Thanks Xeptic and sneakers too. I don't know when it will be released yet, I'm working at a much slower pace as i used to, but i think it'll be worth the wait :)

Cool....got a title for the movie yet? Looks like it's going to be pretty good.

I really love those statued AITD!