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The Bad Guys 2/Lego Monkie Kid/Moon Girl/Rise TMNT/Lackadaisy <3
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I need a proofreader like yesterday
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can't*
jfc
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Clarity is more important than believability* damn
I mean it's both, it's really both, but I tend to favor clarity cuz they can believe what they don't understand y'know
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FUCK yeah! Glad to hear it!
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Also damn looking back I was SO picky and technical about my volumes and 3D rotations, no wonder this shot took forever. Experience paid off, I'm definitely faster (and a tad bit sloppier) nowadays while achieving similar effect-- but this is all on 1s! What a slog that was.
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Learning these things is important to understand why people rely on convention and when you want to have a specific effect that convention is important to understand so you know where it is and isn't needed. But it's always just effect. Squash and stretch isn't required it simply feels a certain way
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You can see the full rough animation here.
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So that's the choice that I made in order to try and preserve that! Anne's run was the primary action, I didn't want the audience to lose focus. And though it didn't pan out, I find it much more interesting to make choices like that just to see what would happen. We're in control of reality here!
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Sometimes what reads in roughs won't read as cleanly in color, and I suspect that's what happened here. Nevertheless it's something I think about a lot. Sprig's body is just a smear here, it'll read regardless, but Anne's leg might get lost in the action and I didn't want that to be confusing. (2/3)
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thanks Erika :)
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I'm not gonna lie, I struggled so much to think in the creative space rigged animation requires that these shots were really frustrating to me and I didn't show it off anywhere like-- ever! But looking back I'm really happy with what I did, time heals all wounds and all that :)
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aye, keeping it simple also kept it from taking longer than a few hours-- it's a good testament of time in not always equaling quality out
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god it's awwwwwwwful! On one of my all time favorite shots too :'(
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holy fuck I am so sorry about the shitty audio I have no idea what caused that, it's a silent video on my computer but bluesky has this really loud click going on. Anyone else hearing it?
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I saved both of these because I wanted one on each of my two monitors at work, I figured it made for a cool wallpaper 😌
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just digital hand drawn. Except for the bandanas, which are looped and then pegged to move around (with masking so it's not distracting from the characters during review)
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Harmony toon boom!
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It's because, in order to avoid animating them throughout the whole scene, the mask ribbons are on a loop! And then it's easier to keep them looping and not have to worry about them than it is to track them against the frame of the camera and guess when they'd be visible
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ngl I got really anxious that *this* was the shot that would define me no matter what else I did because for a couple years I literally could not legally post anything else so this was all that I had to show from 2020-2022
But then more stuff got released I could share huzzah~
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yeah, you said it boss!
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And if I'm being real I don't even think she would have cared. I didn't know her much more than just as a cool person to hang out with at work parties, I really just did that for me. Rare to be able to make cathartic art at work, I've only gotten one other chance and you'll probably never see it.
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Feels weird to honor someone's life in the subtext of a brief shot in a children's cartoon ngl, but that's just what we do innit? It's a real emotion, we work with what we have. Mine just happened to be fresh. It's not even a scene long enough for it, it mostly shows up in that subtle final squeeze
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Just as I was about to start this shot I was told that an old coworker of mine had passed away. I thought about how tragic it was that someone so young could just -blip- not be there any more, how unfair that was. And I channeled those thoughts of wishing she was still around into the embrace here
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thank you, I know everyone on the team was incredibly proud of what we did with it :)
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ftr we don't normally get the opportunity to add specific gags in anim, that's usually done in the story stage, so I'm always hella proud of that "donnie bending the stick" joke that I threw in on that last shot lol
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thanks, I'm really happy I was able to find a compromise for myself in order to post them!