So I wrote and animated this tutorial for people working on my short film Bothered, but I figured it would be useful for all animators, particularly beginners. I borrowed some of these concepts fromĀ this awesome packet done by Jon Hooper and Michel Gagne, which is also pretty great!
Tag: animating
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The whole film took me altogether about 5 grueling months (usually 10-12hours a day) to do. I often felt my butt was going to grow into the chair I usually sat at.Ā
Please note that this was simply my way of doing my film to achieve the soft-shaded style I wanted; there are many other ways of doing this and some are a lot faster with different results~! :)
- My film on DeviantArtĀ |Ā My film on Vimeo
- My film gifs on Tumblr
- You can see my storyboard animatic hereĀ (although the original had music, but like I mentioned, my placeholder music was by Joe Hisaishi, you know, Miyazakiās composer, so itās not really legal to upload it).Ā
This tut differs a bit from my dA version, because tumblr lets me put the combination of gifs and jpegs :D.Ā
Hereās a book that will really help you start animating:
hereās some books that are good for composition, storytelling and colours:
- Dream Worlds: Production Design for Animation
- The Art of Pixar: The Complete Color Scripts and Select Art from 25 Years of Animation
- Prepare to Board! Creating Story and Characters for Animated Features and Shorts
I hope these helped
I ask that no one removes the credit or source for this tutorial/guide please. thanks :)