Animation - Blog Posts

After making my previous animation I wanted to make more so here’s another one for you

I’m real proud of this one

Here’s this silly little Undertale Yellow animation I made out of boredom

small animation

Animating in gacha real.

Help idk what I'm doing 😭😭😭

STAR TRAVEL!! 🌠✨🌌⭐

I love making low poly models, I did a lot of experimenting in the shader editor for this one I hope ya'll like it :D making the galaxy hair was so fun

Bird!

Modeled and animated in blender

Textured in blender and ibisPaint

Hat Wiggle!

I drew this in ibispaint and animated it in blender

My friend @catmintrose made me this amazing new character his name is Franko and when I got him I just knew I had to animate him waving his hat in the air many thanks to Cat for the adorable character design!

Here is a still frame so anyone that wants to see the texture a little better it was a really fun experimental art style change that I might open commissions for in the future

15$ Wing animation YCH

.* ݁ ˖𓂃.☘︎ ݁˖

Payment after sketch through PayPal!

Lineart changes may cost more

Sparkle Dog?? 3d model Artfight ATTACK!

I love this character it was such a blast to design them with @catmintrose and I had such an awesome time modeling, texturing and animating them in blender I can't wait for art fight next year this year was so much fun thank you @catmintrose for letting me attack you

Sleepy Raccoon Artfight Attack

I really enjoyed making this attack @ohbuguser I adored being able to make you silly gorl she's amazing

GAHHH I LOVE ITTT SJFshghskfkdshfklHKJDHkjds :"DD they look so freaking cute and the tail animtion sis so smoooooth AAAAAA I love it so mcuh thank youu

🌸ARTFIGHT ATTACK

🌺for @fruitzapple !! :D

(Sorry if the gif quality is shit i’ll try to fix that)

🧩my artfight! : https://artfight.net/~CatMint_Rose

You've Got Mail

I made this as an artfight attack for @stabberghost It was really fun I adore their character so silly cute and so fun to draw GAAAHHHH it was a blast to make this

A new art fight attack!

artfight.net

Art Fight

An art trading game

Pondered the egg y'all? Consider their sadness?

They are happy you have pondered

Alright men (affectionate to audience gender neutral) I did it again I made more GOOD OMENS content

It's for a multi animator project run by: @kittygirl2210 they are amazing and I am so excited to see the final project

We are reanimating the first scene in good omens season 2 "Before the Beginning" this animation is part 98-99

I drew the stills in ibisPaint and animated them as planes in blender with an armature adding lighting to make it yummy

Snakes can't see stars Crowley has snake eyes

My bad guys didn't mean to make angst it just kinda fell out

Well I'm going to continue to be very uninterested in the work of art that is good omens and definitely not make anymore fanart ever again in my life /this is strong sarcasm I have so many things planned and I'm very obsessed

Made some pixelart of Kemmiiii

Lofi puppy

Pixel art animation

Pixel art animation

Some spinning gifs I've made

I suck at anything related to animation but the hug at the end was cute so I thought it was worth posting

Sleepy Pony

This is my oc :3

A little animation I made for an art contest

Turned another one of my ocs into a pony ^0^

I also have a raffle for one of these animations up on my toyhou.se

hecate

GENERAL FANARTIST APPRECIATION POST

we love yall! you’re doing so well with whatever you’re working on! don’t feel pressured to churn out work for other people!! let it flow naturally!! and if it takes like a month or more for the creative juices to get flowing again, who cares!! write/draw/animate/CREATE for you, take a walk outside, call a friend, we’re all so happy with what you’ve created, and we can all wait until you feel like posting again ❤️❤️

websites:

Animation World Network

Animation Backgrounds

Animation Magazine

Animation & CGI

Animator Island

Anime News Network

Cartoon Brew

Character Design References

On Animation

Reference! Reference! (free database for animation)

11 Second Club (monthly character animation competition)

tumblr blogs:

animationart

animationforce

animationtidbits

aspiretoanimate

calartscharacteranimation

disney-moments-sketches (Allen Ostergar’s blog, animator at Walt Disney)

drawingforsuckas

fuckyeahconceptart

storyboardresources

theanimationarchive

theartofanimation

wannabeanimator

resources/tips:

Animation schools: 1 / 2 (Top 50 USA) / 3 (Top 100 international)

Which animation school is right for you? (Ringling vs. CalArts)

Don’t want to/ can’t afford art school? you’ve got other options.

Animation Mentor: The online animation school

Art school exercises!!

51 Great Animation exercises

20 things you can expect as a traditional (2D) animation student that they never tell you

A Survivor’s Guide to Life Inside an Animation Studio

Animation basics: The art of timing and spacing

Animation Notes From Ollie Johnston

Animated chart of the basic principles of animation

10 Second tip: Always Anticipate

book: Animation: Learn How to Draw Animated Cartoons by Preston Blair

book: A System for Planning and Timing Animation by Glen Keane

book: Timing for animation by Harold Whitaker and John Halas

book: Gesture Drawing for animation by Walt Stanchfield

Basic 3D Animation Terminology

Digital pencil test!!

Keys to Emotion in Animation

Lessons from Disney’s Zootopia

Model Sheets central

The importance of Acting in Animation by Segio Pablos

Printable exposure/dope sheet

Phoneme Chart

Recommended reading for animation students and enthusiasts

The 5 Types of Animation

The Know-How of Cartooning 

The Unofficial Truth about The Animation Industry

Why Disney Sends Its Animators To Life Drawing Classes

Walk/Run Cycles reference

What is Pixar looking for in Animators? (scroll down)

Portfolio Advice for The Disney Animation Internship

What is Rigging?

3D Rigging Terminology

3D Modeling Terminology

tutorials:

Animation for Beginners: Where do I start

Animation Physics (Video tutorials on physics for animation artists)

Animation tutorial part. 1 AKA “the secret of animation”

Appealing Poses in Animation

Background & Movement in TV

Blinking tips

Breakdown tutorial (middle frame between to keys)

Drawing & Composition for visual storytelling

Drawing for Animation

Drawing a Likeness

Animation fundamentals + tutorials

Filmmaking: Composition and Framing

Getting Shape Change

How to animate using photoshop

How to animate Characters in Perspective

How to Animate Head Turns

How to Draw Gesture

OpeenToonz tutorials masterpost

Overlapping Action and Drag

Portfolio tips / Making A Successful Portfolio

Lyp Sync tutorial

Line of action

Basics of good cartooning 1-12 by Sherm Cohen

Squash & Stretch tutorial

Squash and Stretch 2

Storyboarding tutorials by Sherm Cohen

The Illusion of Life: 12 Principles of Animation

Tilt, Flow & Rhythm

Underlying Structure When Animating Expressions

TVPaint tutorial: Uploading and Coloring Scanned Animation

supplies (traditional animation):

10 Essential Art Supplies for the Traditional Animator

How to Use a Light Table for Animation

Making a Simple Animation Lightbox

Peg bars, Animation Disk & Desk

softwares:

free

Blender (3D creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline: modeling, rigging, animation,etc)

Emofuri (animate using .psd files)

Google Sketchup (

Live2D ( animation/drawing software

OpenToonz (Studio Ghibli’s open source animation software)

Pencil2D (create traditional hand-drawn animation (cartoon) using both bitmap and vector graphics)

Renderman (Pixar’s free 3D rendering software)

Sculptris (Free digital sculpting tool by the makers of Zbrush

SculptGL (Online modelling program)

Synfig (2d animation using a vector and bitmap artwork)

paid

Zbrush (digital sculpting sw by Pixologic)

Mudbox (digital sculpting sw by Autodesk)

Cinema 4D (digital sculpting sw by Maxon)

TVPaint  (2d animation)

animation studios:

Aardman (Bristol, UK)

Blue Sky Studios (Greenwich, USA)

Dreamworks (Glendale, USA)

Fox Animation (USA)

Imagination Studios/CN (Burbank, USA)

Industrial Light & Magic (San Francisco, USA)

Laika (Hillsboro, USA)

Luma Pictures (USA / Melbourne, Australia)

Nickelodeon Animation (Burbank, USA)

Pixar (Emeryville, CA)

Rise FX (Berlin, Germany)

Studio Ghibli (Tokyo, Japan)

Sony Picture Imageworks (Vancouver, Canada)

Sony Pictures Animation (Culver City, CA)

Walt Disney Animation (Burbank, CA)

Weta Digital (Wellington, New Zealand)

inspiration: worth watching short films

Coda by and maps and plans

Contre Temps by the Contre Temps Team

Duet by Glen Keane

DOG ENVY by Olivia Huynh

Fallin Floyd by  il Luster

French Roast

Gravity by Ailin Liu

In Between by Gobelins

Jinxy Jenkins and Lucky Lou by Michael Bidinger and Michelle Kwon

My Big Brother by Jason Rayner

Night Light by Qing Han

Nephtali by Glen Keane

Nocturne by Kari Casady

Historia de un Oso by Gabriel Osorio

Home Sweet Home  by home sweet home the film

One Bright Dot by  Clément Morin

Stickboy by Giant Ant

SOAR by Alyce Tzue

Tsunami by The Animation Workshop

Thought of You by Ryan Woodward

Vagabond by  The Animation Workshop

5 Gobelins Shorts That Pay Tribute To Women Animation Pioneers

happy halloween!! 🎃🎉

just wanted to do something silly and play around with retro effects (thats why basil is holding a camcorder)

anyways i hope u like it :]