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| The Inevitable Flour Sack Thread #1; Beginner - Traditional / Flash [All] | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Nov 12 2005, 08:15 AM (4,944 Views) | |
| TheEYE | Nov 12 2005, 08:15 AM Post #1 |
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![]() Love to animate but just arent good enough to enter the Forum Comps? Want to animate, but dont know where to start? Well then you are in the right spot! ![]() Almost every classically trained animator has their share of horror stories about our 'lil friend the infamous flour sack. For many years he has been used to teach the basics of the 12 principles of animation, and now he has arrived here in Brackenwood for your learning pleasure! The Flour Sack Thread is NOT a contest. No winners will be announced, and no banners awarded. This thread is here to help teach you the basics of animation only. There will be no strict deadlines for you to post your work, Do it at your own pace, in your own time. Newbies can start here at thread #1 for the basics and move on when new exercises are posted. (Which should be every few weeks-ish). [size=7]Exercise #1 Character Model Sheets.[/size] For the very first exercise we need to get our sack set up as a usable character for animation. This of course means we need a character sheet. Character sheets are a visual "synopsis" of what your character looks like, most often they will include a front, side, 3/4, and rear view of the character in a standing position. I would highly reccomend refreshing your memories of character sheets from Daves KickAss Illustrator Comp here: http://s7.invisionfree.com/Brackenwood/ind...?showtopic=3739 As well, there are many examples of character sheets available in the Animation Resources section of the Forum, or at my site http://www.eyeeffex.com. So break out the pencils, or your trusty computer and begin sketching up your very own "flour sack"! Keep it pretty basic for now, just the sack itself. As the thread progresses we will be adding more features to our 'lil sacks. For now however, the less detail the sacks have the better... after all, we will be animating these suckers shortly! ![]() So there you have it... your first Flour Sack assignment. I will be following along with you all through these exercises, and when we have enough character sheets posted we will move on to the basics of animation! Enjoy the ride, and thanks for taking it with me!
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| ryanaz | Nov 12 2005, 08:24 AM Post #2 |
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Ryan :D
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haha...finally so nice clean animatin' fun...
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| thepeve | Nov 12 2005, 09:44 AM Post #3 |
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![]() Character Sheet#1 ![]() Character Sheet#2 ---------------------- |
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| TheEYE | Nov 12 2005, 09:58 AM Post #4 |
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Nice action sheet Peve. Two things stand out though.... #1) The sack is wayyy too detailed right now. When we move into the animating of the sacks you are going to have alot of extra work having to add the level of detail you have going now. ![]() #2)Your primary character sheet should basically consist of four poses. A full frontal view, a side view, a 3/4 view, and a full rear view. A fantastic example of a great primary model sheet can be seen here: http://www.humbleego.com/media/roach1.png (Courtesy of our very own Humble!) Otherwise you have created a terrific supporting action sheet, nicely I might add!
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| ryanaz | Nov 12 2005, 11:35 AM Post #5 |
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Ryan :D
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pretty damn cool man....but id like to see the one thats in your sig too... PS by the way i have to say this again these little puppys are awsome ![]() ![]()
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| -NL- | Nov 12 2005, 12:37 PM Post #6 |
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hahaha i remember the 'ol flour sack took me forever to animate it falling off a counter for my gravity thing .... never did finish it but lost the file cuz i had to reformat ... should be in my photobucket but i could just make a new better one
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| Comlock | Nov 12 2005, 09:14 PM Post #7 |
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These are my leafs:
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Tada:
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| Rubberhead | Nov 12 2005, 09:17 PM Post #8 |
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Looks great mr. Comlock man Nice to see you drawing on paper more *edit* Rubber latex bags mmm?
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| songspinner | Nov 13 2005, 12:57 AM Post #9 |
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Oh I remember this thing
I wanna have a go! ![]() I forgot the back pose. Oopth. Rubberhead: yours looks so squishy! It's great! Comlock: really nice twists in some of those poses. Peve: detailed, but there's great use of weight in him. |
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| Comlock | Nov 13 2005, 01:28 AM Post #10 |
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Haha, latex bags! awesome Rubberhead^^ Nice drawings songspinner. That "flour smoke" was a great idea. oh, and that flour-fart fart too! Btw, are you a girl? Those drawings doesent look like it was made from a guy somehow.. |
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| streakofpiss | Nov 13 2005, 01:48 AM Post #11 |
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It would be good if people could post character sheets of their OWN characters, and go through the exercises using characters of their own...? |
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| the shaaade | Nov 13 2005, 02:19 AM Post #12 |
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i'd say the thought is to keep it easy in order to learn the basics…and the character sheets are for getting familiar with the shape of the sack… |
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| NOOB! | Nov 13 2005, 05:44 AM Post #13 |
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great stuff guys! |
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| KiWi | Nov 13 2005, 06:10 AM Post #14 |
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Good practice before I start my animation project. I found the challenge in this pillow now, it is hard to show emotion, so you have to use body language. Oh yea, 1 question, when is the next assignment going to be up?![]() EDIT!: Made a half step thinging to get the feel for him. http://img207.imageshack.us/my.php?image=p...alkcycle2pv.swf |
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| TheEYE | Nov 13 2005, 07:25 AM Post #15 |
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Great stuff so far guys! ![]() Based on the fact so many of you have gotten going I think I will whip through mine today and get it posted, then we can move on to the second exercise. Tommorow too soon for ya guys?
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| KiWi | Nov 13 2005, 09:03 AM Post #16 |
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Tomorrow would be awesome. |
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| SnipeR | Nov 13 2005, 11:44 AM Post #17 |
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not sure bout the shading...
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| -NL- | Nov 13 2005, 11:55 AM Post #18 |
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i've done better, this is just a rough though i havent taken it into PS for the rest of the coloring eaither but its still not too shabby
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| songspinner | Nov 13 2005, 12:15 PM Post #19 |
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Comlock: Cheers. And yes Imma girl Eye: Tomorrow's good! |
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| streakofpiss | Nov 13 2005, 09:34 PM Post #20 |
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| clayt | Nov 14 2005, 03:09 AM Post #21 |
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I'm not crazy... ask my toaster!
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My Model Sheet. |
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| Bussman | Nov 14 2005, 01:06 PM Post #22 |
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FLASH GENIUS (I wish...)
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Holy Shit Cow Batman!!! Those are some ammmmmmmmazing sheets my friends! |
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| mrgarbage | Nov 14 2005, 05:50 PM Post #23 |
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Well here's mine I always wanted to learn animation, thanks EYE!!!! Im going to do this with good ol pencil and paper. Cant wait for the lessons!!!!! YEOW!!!!! |
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| TheEYE | Nov 14 2005, 10:28 PM Post #24 |
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Sorry guys, ya gotta give me one more day to get the next part up. I got called into work last night, so my plans of doing up #2 were waylayed by earning money instead! ![]() |
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| -NL- | Nov 15 2005, 06:58 AM Post #25 |
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haha in your shoes i think we'd all do the same no worries Mr.Eye sir
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