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Published: 2006-10-14 03:23:52 +0000 UTC; Views: 3538; Favourites: 40; Downloads: 1363
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Description A little animation for my animation class. I finally got to rehoot it today (only took like...two hours...stupid camera....).

I'm still working on the end...haven't really worked on the settle like I've been wanting to.

So....yeah. Animation. Rock on.

Download to View! It's a quicktime file (.mov). Sorry, it's kinda small.
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Comments: 51

agent-elf In reply to ??? [2010-07-08 22:50:18 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! It was alot of fun to do. I wish I still had the patience to animate.

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AnnaCStansfield In reply to agent-elf [2010-07-08 22:55:01 +0000 UTC]

I likely never will! so you're ahead of me for having done it at all! lol! You're welcome!

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misanthropi [2009-10-22 09:34:21 +0000 UTC]

nice work
i love the sack <3

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ShikonSora [2009-08-23 07:33:49 +0000 UTC]

i get to do this too in a few weeks
:E looks really good

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SuperRamen [2008-07-29 19:43:50 +0000 UTC]

Holy cow! That's one of the cutest things I've ever seen. XD It's reallly smooth, and you did a great job on it.

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agent-elf In reply to SuperRamen [2008-07-30 00:59:20 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! The floursack is the funnest thing to animate...

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makeendsmeet [2007-12-16 06:12:05 +0000 UTC]

That is too cute...

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haffri [2007-09-23 14:52:20 +0000 UTC]

Wow, love it, good job. It's so cute and smooth

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crazeejax [2007-09-23 03:11:47 +0000 UTC]

So ADORABLE!!!!!!!!!
XD

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katikat [2006-11-10 08:08:27 +0000 UTC]

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kthxplz [2006-11-09 14:42:32 +0000 UTC]

Awesome smoothness, anticipations, accents, everything. I love this!

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agent-elf In reply to kthxplz [2006-11-09 23:45:16 +0000 UTC]

Thanks

(haha...your name is awesome...kthxplz... )

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kthxplz In reply to agent-elf [2006-11-10 01:46:26 +0000 UTC]

Whee, my first name appreciator~ XD

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agent-elf In reply to kthxplz [2006-11-10 02:28:42 +0000 UTC]

Yay, I feel special now!

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scrum-yummy [2006-10-18 17:20:28 +0000 UTC]

I don't have quicktime ;_;

it sounds so cute, too.

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agent-elf In reply to scrum-yummy [2006-10-18 23:34:17 +0000 UTC]

Bummer! Sorry! *hands over a kleenex*

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shidesha [2006-10-18 09:45:29 +0000 UTC]

The sack returns! Yay!
That looks terrific, is this for an animation course or something...?
I'd LOVE LOVE LOVE to learn how to animate in this way.. but I have no idea where to study it... do you have any suggestions or links or somthing?

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agent-elf In reply to shidesha [2006-10-18 14:35:22 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! Yeah, it was for an animation class (which is causing a lot of grief right now).

Hmm...I don't know any schools in Australia, but online stuff, there's Animation Meat: [link] . That's the only online place I know of that a great animation resource.

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shidesha In reply to agent-elf [2006-10-18 21:59:57 +0000 UTC]

Awesome! *gets over excited* yaaay That's a great start, I really appreciate it!
I want to spend alot of my summer holidays working on learning to animate (even if it's just in flash)

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agent-elf In reply to shidesha [2006-10-18 23:35:59 +0000 UTC]

Flash is awesome, especially with the "onionskinning" feature, which is rad. Yeah, animation meat rocks...what else...hm....just watch lots of animation, to get a feel for the timing and whatnot...and stopwatches are good, too.

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shidesha In reply to agent-elf [2006-10-19 03:24:31 +0000 UTC]

Do you do much animating in Flash?
I tried once to get a girls hair to blow in the wind and it ended up like her hair was cardboard LOL
Thanks again for the tips! I'll be sure to upload anything (if I do something that looks like its animating I mean LOL)

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agent-elf In reply to shidesha [2006-10-19 03:33:41 +0000 UTC]

Lol, a looooong time ago...before I had a really good tablet. I should try again...

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shidesha In reply to agent-elf [2006-10-19 08:23:02 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, I'd totally love to see that!

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agent-elf In reply to shidesha [2006-10-19 22:19:43 +0000 UTC]

It would be such good practice, cause you don't waste paper! Lol! I'm a lot more courageous in digital, cause I have an undo button. I make a lot more mistakes, but they end up looking better in the end because I'm taking risks. Digital rocks!

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Pan-Pan [2006-10-16 03:41:39 +0000 UTC]

Lookit you with all your comments! You did awesome ^^ I like the way he's like "oooh, should i go? should I go?" and the fall ^^

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agent-elf In reply to Pan-Pan [2006-10-17 00:23:24 +0000 UTC]

Lol, I need to draw out the fall part a little more, in fact, that's on my to-do list for this week...

Thanks, the Shannonator!!

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MattJWood [2006-10-16 02:34:59 +0000 UTC]

ha ha, that's awsome. great movement!!

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agent-elf In reply to MattJWood [2006-10-17 01:58:08 +0000 UTC]

Thanks, Mattman...

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blindsyte [2006-10-15 22:26:09 +0000 UTC]

good acting, way to go. do more!

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agent-elf In reply to blindsyte [2006-10-17 00:22:27 +0000 UTC]

I'm workin' on it!

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Cataclysm-X [2006-10-15 18:34:19 +0000 UTC]

Haha aww that's so adorable how he touches with his 'foot' the rope. Great animation, good job .

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agent-elf In reply to Cataclysm-X [2006-10-17 00:22:07 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! And thanks for the fav!

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noakrank [2006-10-15 14:39:24 +0000 UTC]

but my teacher to do a pillow! a flour sack it so much cooler

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streboradnama [2006-10-14 22:25:20 +0000 UTC]

that is so cute! you did a wonderful job on it.

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agent-elf In reply to streboradnama [2006-10-14 22:29:29 +0000 UTC]

Thanks.

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Falcolf [2006-10-14 17:19:36 +0000 UTC]

Wow, it turned out great! (The flour sack is sooo cute ) The timing is sooo smooth. I bet you'll get a very nice mark!

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agent-elf In reply to Falcolf [2006-10-14 20:01:22 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! Honestly...now that you mention it, I don't know what I got on it.

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AngelCrusher [2006-10-14 13:31:48 +0000 UTC]

wow! I love it! The way you have drawn the sack and the timing is excellent. In my animation uni, we recently animated the 'sacks', but we did them jumping over a cliff, but giving two sacks different characteristics. I'll have to post it some time after we finish colouring it.

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agent-elf In reply to AngelCrusher [2006-10-14 19:55:26 +0000 UTC]

You color yours? Wow...fun! Yeah, post it and let me know! I want to see!

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AngelCrusher In reply to agent-elf [2006-10-14 23:29:31 +0000 UTC]

Yeh, we use a program called Animo to colour it. The pain is that my sack animation is 32 seconds long, then I have a week of clean-up and colouring. Clean-up is gonna kill me, even if it is sacks, because I got 500 drawings altogether. :s

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agent-elf In reply to AngelCrusher [2006-10-15 03:36:13 +0000 UTC]

Ouch...that's a lot of work...good luck!

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MrOzer [2006-10-14 06:56:02 +0000 UTC]

nice job. That looks good.

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Kobb [2006-10-14 05:05:21 +0000 UTC]

HAHA YES!

That's awesome - I like the little testing thing it does... "Will it hold my weight? Maybe... no seriously, will it hold me?! Am I really going to try and walk on a string??!?! ...why not? here goes..."

And its balancing walk looks great, with a solid feeling of weight throughout.

In short: niiiiiiiiice.

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agent-elf In reply to Kobb [2006-10-14 19:52:14 +0000 UTC]

Lol, thanks. I glad it comes across that he's thinking about it. Flour sacks is so cute *pinches cheek*!

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blueitiger [2006-10-14 04:59:00 +0000 UTC]

gtreat job. whats the end goning to be?

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blueitiger In reply to blueitiger [2006-10-15 04:42:00 +0000 UTC]

It would be cool if it blew up at the end but that would be a lot more work than you might want to do. The squash and strech looks realy good.

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agent-elf In reply to blueitiger [2006-10-14 19:46:07 +0000 UTC]

You saw it...it just needs tweaking.

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colorchrome [2006-10-14 04:21:08 +0000 UTC]

I want to do a floursack! it seems like everyone gets to do them!

alas, we don't ahve animation classes.

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agent-elf In reply to colorchrome [2006-10-14 04:22:07 +0000 UTC]

Do it anyway! Flour sacks are wicked fun to animate!

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kristaia [2006-10-14 04:16:52 +0000 UTC]

it looks great! i never got to do a flour sack in school *jealous*

if you want a critique, i'd say maybe space out the timing a little so it's a bit slower when he tests the line and a little bit of a hold before he falls..but i know it can be a pain to re-time the stuff and sometimes you just have to move forward....so it looks great!

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