1. Ah Fai was a chief animator for McDull’s animated features. He’s super cool. Ultimate senpai.
2. Previous post on breakdowns right here
Some thoughts on acceleration and force
I presented this in the order of how I slowly understood the trick of delivering force - first an abstract concept of impact taught by Ah Fai, then a more complicated discovery on the acceleration pattern, last back to a more abstract concept of breakdowns.
Like I’ve previously stressed, 2D animation is everything but one single approach. There’s no one rule that rules them all, but interchangeable ideas with math, or physics, or music, etc. There’s no “perfect” animation either, but what is perceived as organic and dynamic. E.g., using the Fibonacci numbers to animate didn’t bring me a perfect animation! On the other hand, a tiny change in the pattern could already make the feeling of force so much more powerful.
Not so much of a tutorial than a personal experience. I hope you find this interesting hahaha
This one got reeeeeally wordy. EYES ARE HARD TO ‘SPLAIN. I hope it helped at least a little though ;u;
Once again this is far cry from a legit ‘tutorial’- but I guess you guys are finding my quick, roughed-out tips pretty helpful since I keep getting asked for more!
Other “Tip” posts I’ve made (LOTS OF READIN, BEWARE.)
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fatima aamer bilal, from moony moonless sky’s ‘i am your mould, but the shape of you is true absence, leaving me purposeless.’
[text id: and is this not treason? / my soul belongs far more to you than it does to me.]
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the software is similar to emote/emofuri, a little more complicated though, with modeling, texture maps and set up is different, but at least it’s in English! with an extensive how to manual and dozens of sample models to play around with
there’s free version you can download
I picked up this program almost instantly, after struggling with emofuri all day (T^T I’ll try again another time), I really just wanna jump into this style of animating
I stumbled upon a website that allows you to blend any colors evenly no matter how opposite on the spectrum they are.
sharing the knowledge
very helpful art resource
Stay Dead is a 17 second horror film about a girl that’s tormented by something in her home that won’t stay dead. It definitly gave me the creeps. (Source)
Draw ‘em all, or have someone send you a character and a number… it’s your wonderland, Alice. Reblog, add your own. Have a good time.
hasn’t slept in 48 hours
tasted something gross
in a long, slow line at the DMV
listening to blind date talk about their ex
reading YouTube comments
favorite song just came on
song they hate just came on
had their favorite show spoiled
just fell in love (a.k.a. “Dreamweaver face”)
saw a wasp
had a fist fight (they won)
had a fist fight (they lost)
food coma
hello darkness, my old friend
“was that Batman?”
forgot what they were about to say
“oh no, they’re hot…”
their best friend’s cooking is not as good as they think
brainfreeze!
texted the wrong person
check out this box of kittens/puppies/bunnies/ducklings/whatever’s cutest to them!
their favorite TV show character dies
having an increasingly awkward conversation with Bob of Modus Operandi
parent/guardian is showing their baby pictures
stepped on a Lego
stepped on an Eggo… you know… the waffle
102 degrees indoors and there’s no A/C
watching the end of The Iron Giant… or maybe the opening to Up… or w-when Shadow is stuck in Homeward Bound…??
woken up out of a dead sleep
nailed it.
(some suggestions were lovingly crowd-sourced from kayzig samwisedamgee marianascosta geekysideburns briandanielwolf sarahfu and indigoats.com!)