LimeKiller Posted March 8, 2014 Share Posted March 8, 2014 I might have mentioned this before, and it's under my interests section of my profile page, but I like to make animations in my free time. In the last year, however, I slipped away from that as I got distracted by less productive things. (Team Fortress 2) This year, however, I made a resolution to put out at least one video a month. So yeah, I guess I'll keep posting. January - Still Alive Animation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOkJ9SQTqSs February - "Shovel the Walk" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AOnSllD-aI March - "Don't Drink and Drive" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpBM5bUrhGU April/May - "Sharkbait" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGkvsn96qAc June - "Febreze Commercial Parody" Arthuriel, Fluffy Cupcake, The Ace Railgun and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fluffy Cupcake Posted March 8, 2014 Share Posted March 8, 2014 Haha, nice! I love them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Ace Railgun Posted March 8, 2014 Share Posted March 8, 2014 -video- This is Colorado weather in the winter... Also, nice animation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tracker Posted March 9, 2014 Share Posted March 9, 2014 That last one was somewhat appropriate where we live. We just had our one-every-12-years-every-fire-truck-ambulance-police-unit-every-tree-on-every-line ice storm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LimeKiller Posted April 3, 2014 Author Share Posted April 3, 2014 Updated post. Another video. Yay. Don't drive under the influence of alcohol. I hear he's a pretty persuasive guy, might influence you to do stuff you wouldn't otherwise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arthuriel Posted April 4, 2014 Share Posted April 4, 2014 The latest video was great . I liked it. Now replace the characters, objects etc. with things from Rock Raiders and call it "A usual work day on Planet U" . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McJobless Posted April 4, 2014 Share Posted April 4, 2014 These are pretty cool. Out of curiosity, do you key/chart these up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LimeKiller Posted May 28, 2014 Author Share Posted May 28, 2014 Updates, updates, everywhere. Like I said, I'm not a huge fan of this latest one, but whatevs. Out of curiosity, do you key/chart these up? Embarrassingly, I'm not quite sure what you mean. Care to elaborate? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LimeKiller Posted July 6, 2014 Author Share Posted July 6, 2014 Another video. I like the concept, but I should have been more careful with the actual animations. Oh well, it's still pretty good. Yajmo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McJobless Posted July 6, 2014 Share Posted July 6, 2014 Out of curiosity, do you key/chart these up? Embarrassingly, I'm not quite sure what you mean. Care to elaborate? This is a keychart. It's a technique created by Disney animations, and it used by almost all professional animation studios (including Pixar/Dreamworks, those people who make short animations on YouTube, anime studios etc etc). A really good overview is here: http://www.brianlemay.com/Pages/animationschool/animation/lipsyncbook/timingcharts.html Basically, they're guide to help you know exactly how many frames you need to draw for a smooth animation. There are three types of animation (the pipes represent frames): 1) Linear |-------------|-------------| 2) Ease In/Accelerating |---|---|-----|-------------| 3) Ease Out/Decelerating |-------------|------|---|--| Linear means that a motion remains constant. Ease In/Out is the start or end of a motion. Basically what you do is you draw a chart on top of each frame you draw. You draw the start and end of a motion (the key frames), and you add these keys as big lines to your chart (name them A and B). You then add an in-between (the middle frame), and you put a smaller line in the center of your chart (name this one C). Then, in order to help the audience see the direction of your work and add flow, you add keys that either ease-in or ease-out. You add small lines for each one, and continue to name them in alphabetical order. If you like, I can show you an example I made. The Ace Railgun, Yajmo and I Am Not Here 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LimeKiller Posted July 6, 2014 Author Share Posted July 6, 2014 Yes, that makes complete sense. I knew about most of that, for some reason it just didn't register correctly in my head. Pretty much, yeah. The program I use has this built-in, which I use to calculate the movement of different objects. However, some of it is automated so it's a lot more simplified than the examples you gave. I've used other programs as well, which were much more similar to frame-by-frame, traditional animation. When working with these applications, sometimes I created a keychart to help me, sometimes I just kind of made it up as I went. It was all just for practice. McJobless 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LimeKiller Posted July 30, 2014 Author Share Posted July 30, 2014 A new one. I didn't know where I was going with it when I started, so the results are... rather weird. But I think it turned out really well, pretty proud of it. And by the way, Kevin MacLeod = Genius. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LimeKiller Posted September 30, 2014 Author Share Posted September 30, 2014 If you haven't noticed, there was no post in August. That's because I got Flash, so I spent that time learning to use it. Luckily something came out of that, though,so I have an animation to post for September: "Contact!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42qEXx2lpaI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Ace Railgun Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 "Contact!" Hah, I was expecting aliens Looks good. LimeKiller 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LimeKiller Posted November 1, 2014 Author Share Posted November 1, 2014 Spooky scary skeleters are visiting you this Halloween. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mcpeNe9TTQ thank mr skeltal The Ace Railgun 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LimeKiller Posted December 5, 2014 Author Share Posted December 5, 2014 Uh yeah almost forgot to post this. So sorry. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_pp1-HHfhU grappigegovert 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fluffy Cupcake Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 Spoilered because animation is recent: Ummmm, okay. I can't say that kind of humor appeals to me. Btw, where did the clothes go? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LimeKiller Posted January 14, 2015 Author Share Posted January 14, 2015 Hmm. Yes, I'm not sure about the clothes. Tough one. Anyway, this is my last animation. I actually made it for one of my math teachers, and got extra credit. Hooray. (Kinda boring though ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPO1oOMQO4Q I don't plan on continuing this into 2015. I will probably keep animating here and there, but I probably won't post it here. I plan on starting another project long-term that the site may hear about if it turns out well but I won't say anything yet because I can't make any promises. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yajmo Posted January 14, 2015 Share Posted January 14, 2015 le717 would lIke this! As would the illuminati.... I'm interested in seeing how your big new project goes :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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