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| akiraoni | Oct 21 2006, 06:16 AM Post #2101 |
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May I request a more specific explaination? |
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| TheEYE | Oct 21 2006, 06:40 AM Post #2102 |
Lurys Fey Daemyt
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You need to install .mxp's through the Macromedia Component Installer. It comes with your flash installation. (Look in your Flash Start Folder.)
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| humbleego | Oct 21 2006, 06:49 AM Post #2103 |
Adam's Illegitimate Son
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In fact I think it works better than "real motion blur". I've seen a few modern cartoons (the new TMNT comes to mind) that actually motion blur frame on drawings and it looks like complete shit... I think it's because it adds a non-toony element, clashing with the drawings and taking you out of the moment. A good smear frame will be "invisible" to the audience. They won't see it, they'll feel it. With "real motion blur", the audience will typically be like "WTF just happened?" Edit1: Also, I think you need quick movements with less "even" timing... makes it lose impact, here's a quickie example: Very few drawings in this, pretty much keyframes (or extremes) and two smear frames... Also a little anticipation never hurt anyone..  Edit2: My arc is really shitty in these, so don't follow that lead...lol I literally spent maybe 5 minutes on it... |
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| akiraoni | Oct 21 2006, 09:54 AM Post #2104 |
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LoL! Nice smile in tween one
 Thanks for the advice everyone. I'm going to try installing that file at first chance. Also, once I get another chance to work on the file, I'll upload my results. I hope I can discover something that can work with my style. ;p |
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| Anghenfil | Oct 21 2006, 09:57 AM Post #2105 |
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Humble, I don't have words for how good I feel inside when you post.
Suddenly my life has validation. Nice example too. Edit: Here's something of mine. It has a million, zillion tangents, and some color problems (the record player in front doesn't read, flower child's hair blends into the couch, etc), but I guess it's worth showing for entertainment value. I'll be going over and correcting the tangents/colors in the next few days, so if you have a crit on any other part of the pic, now's your change to rip it a new asshole.  
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| humbleego | Oct 21 2006, 10:26 AM Post #2106 |
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First and formost, your perspective is all kinds of whack. I'm not sure if you're trying to go for a "toony perspective" or what, but it's not work for me. Sorry. Care to explain the piece a bit? Should there be a focus to the piece or is it like a "slice of life" sort of thing? I think if you tell us what you're going for, it'll be easier for us to tear you a new one. Off topic: BTW, I didn't get a chance to post in the Daily Animation, but your timing is divine! The acting is a bit misguided, but the actual flow and animation was glorious. Made me happy in my naughty art spot. 
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| Comlock | Oct 21 2006, 11:00 AM Post #2107 |
These are my leafs:
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:lol: Love all the different characters in that image. Lot's of things seems to be going parallel along with the frame. Even the framing object (recordplayer) That might make it look a bit boring. (This also makes it harder to get the perspective right I think, becasue the wall and window in the background wont show you any vanishing points or horizonline for you to use as a rough guide when drawing the other objects)  (And as you see in the grayscale version, you need to get more contrast on your tones to make it easier to read aswell) Here's a rough little suggestion for the layout (not that good, but I'll hope you'll get the idea^^)  I added even more framing objects here to make the focuspoint on the three people even more clearer. But ofcourse, the framing objects shouldent be overused or seem to obious either. And it probably is here. But so far you only have one in your image, and I dont realy think thats enough =) 
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| marko | Oct 21 2006, 03:43 PM Post #2108 |
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 Here's a Pic of Kratos from the excellent game God of War. Flat vector shapes were done in Flash 8 and the rest is Photoshop. And here's what I'm working on at the moment.  I like to use Sketch book pro 2 for the roughs There's more of this sort of stuff on my blog ToonHoon |
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| Calcifer | Oct 22 2006, 03:43 PM Post #2109 |
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The good lord has blessed thou, I have become a much more humble spiritual person in these days of detachment. |
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| Dazla | Oct 23 2006, 09:24 AM Post #2110 |
Something needs to go here...........
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Over the weekend I created my avator and this Picture Sorry about the whacked look but my mate only has an A4 scanner so we had to scan it four times and try to put it together as best we could in photoshop 6 basically this is no where near finished but it was something small but if you can zoom into the eye and tell me what you think it was draw all by pencil on A2 I got bored and went over it in permanent wish I hadn't tho.....  Also here is a close up of my avator but it looks alot better smaller cause then you can't see the flaws in it Blade Avator Please give C&C P.S. Juggz trying to work on my rotation thingy but have no idea what to do with the sphere, 25fps is way to fast tho, it's currently set at 12fps so tried 13fps looks a little smoother. Ideas????? anyone |
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| shanewaier | Oct 23 2006, 10:16 AM Post #2111 |
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you rely far too much on tweens, try doing a little fbf every once and a while  and i really dont mean to be harsh, but what is that up there?
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| Dazla | Oct 23 2006, 10:28 AM Post #2112 |
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Tween's seem to be the only thing that work for me at the moment as I have never used flash untill now and I am trying to learn as much as I can from other's.The thing above^^ um........????????..........I really do not have a clue, I drew this aswome eye and wanted to put something around it in a hurry, maybe I could make it walk or something. I have another thing that I put around the eye, which I spent more time on I will post it once I have photoshoped it together. Thanks for the advice but untill I get better at frame by frame without making everything look like it's jumpy it tween's for me Example MY SIG is frame by frame and have a look at the end sequence and how jumpy it is..... 
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| Deleted User | Oct 23 2006, 05:04 PM Post #2113 |
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All you have to do is set your frame rate per second high at first, say 25 , and then u just have to animate more frames, but it runs much more smoothly. |
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| akiraoni | Oct 24 2006, 12:25 AM Post #2114 |
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Here it is, updated with smear (plus vcam. ^_^) The introductory shot is something I did in an hour, and while it was planned I would still like to know what I can do to improve it. c&c please! |
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| Cwork | Oct 24 2006, 08:09 AM Post #2115 |
SpongeBob
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diggin' it dude. major improvement. |
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| Sweaterjon | Oct 24 2006, 12:46 PM Post #2116 |
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Howdy, here's something I brewed up for a animation I am working on thats just in early preproduction. These characters are fairly limited in this stage.  This guy is like a dino born in the water and making his way to land.  And him as a full out dinosaur. C & C welcome, i kinda suck with lighting so the light source might be wack. |
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| PharoahsRaiment | Oct 24 2006, 02:56 PM Post #2117 |
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hey guys just joined yesterday so I thought I might as well dive right in! This is a final sketch I made for a project and I want to continue it to a final piece. Any crit would be appreciated! Thanks a lot.  [/IMG]oh yeah Sweaterjon: great character designs for your animation. I can't wait for the final project. I think you're lighting is fine in these models. I think it goes well for cute look of the dinosaurs. I think though that you might want to add a darker shade underneath them (under the fins or the belly) since you have the light source hitting the top of them. well anyways great job man! |
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| Ravenseye | Oct 24 2006, 03:01 PM Post #2118 |
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nice work on the clothing. Looks like quite a bit of detail in there! |
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| akiraoni | Oct 24 2006, 03:03 PM Post #2119 |
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Thanks. However I've heard in some places that seeing it is difficult because of the tones of grey, however while I'm somewhat decent with color theory I'm not sure how to color it appropriately. I'm considering toying with blues, also need to play with light sources. Any suggestions or reference materials? (I've had alot of trouble in the past finding urban resources). Oh, and PharoahsRaiment, please forgive me as I've nowhere near mastered your sort of skill, however something seems off about the positioning of the character's right foot. The rest of the pic looks great, it's just that one piece that looks painful. Did you do that from scratch? |
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| Dazla | Oct 24 2006, 03:04 PM Post #2120 |
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Your light source in this is excellent bro. On a side note: The background just kinda distracts me. I don't really like how the cloud thingy is formed. And the rainbow gradient just doesn't do it for me. But they are personnal opions but I think the guy and car look fantastic and like I said the light source is just fantastic because it is all coming from the left and the shadows are basically very realistic (meaning how they should be) |
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| CLiNK | Oct 24 2006, 03:11 PM Post #2121 |
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I agree with Daz, I also think the dude and car just seem like they've been pasted over the background so they seem to be floating but very good drawing skill and shading.
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| PharoahsRaiment | Oct 24 2006, 03:15 PM Post #2122 |
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thx a lot dazla, yeah I was having trouble over what colors I should use. I went for the rainbow theme to kind of have an 80s look but not sure if that is successful
 Do you think that if I lowered the saturation of the background it wouldn't be as distracting? I'll play around with it in photoshop and see how it looks...oh yeah thx akiraoni for the feedback. haha that foot does look twisted. I only used a reference for the clothing (cause i suck at drawing fabric) so that's why my figure is ackward. I see if I can have it at not such a severe angle. Thx man. |
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| Dazla | Oct 24 2006, 04:13 PM Post #2123 |
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80's look  You kinda have that with the style of clothes and car etc....The background yeh maybe lower it cause it is a bit bright that is why it's distracting, also I agree with clink there is basically very little depth in the BG becuase it kinda looks like the BG layer is just there with the guy and car just dropped onto it. Suggestions: Try to make the background more 3D, like maybe add a very dark road or something going back to the top left. Tone down the colour's and give them some depth like maybe make the colour's darker at the bottom and lighter at the top but still with the tone down on them. These are just suggestions Your drawing is excellent with the guy and car tho  Very good indeedJust one crit with them the light source on the guys face maybe could be moved around abit more towards the middle rather than right on the side. Ask comlock cause he has alot more knowledge with light source etc...... But just a few crits from me. Very good work, glad to see another artist has arrived
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| Deleted User | Oct 24 2006, 04:37 PM Post #2124 |
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I think the foot is fine, it does look awkward but maybe only coz you drew it wrong, if you try to do that with your feet (stand up u lazy bastard :lol: ) it is quite easy and not really uncomfortable at all. Maybe you need to draw his pants going a bit mor down his shoe, and it wont look like such a harsh angle, or just make the show heel higher ,( so that the foot is more straight |
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| Dazla | Oct 25 2006, 11:49 AM Post #2125 |
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Sorry for the quality but don't have a scanner. So I had to take photos did the best I could tho All done in graphite on A2 paper these were done quite some time ago but don't know where to go with them. I want to make the caracter from the death one into flash and do something but dont know? Anyways C&C's please!!!! Volcano  Goblin (sorry about the red, got rubbed against something)  Deathy one (This is my Fav thing I have ever drawn)  So yeh tell me what you think |
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