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AngelCrusher — Timmy Trix Wand animation
Published: 2006-11-30 17:38:38 +0000 UTC; Views: 2500; Favourites: 22; Downloads: 66
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This animation was part of my final major project in my first year of animation university. The project was to animate a cartoon character doing several traits and walks. This was the first character animation I ever did in this type of detail, so be kind.The coloured illustration of the character can be found here. [link]
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I used a pegbar, yeh. Makes sure the pictures stay where I want them too, and doesnt let my animation jump all over the page. they are cheap, its the pegbar hole punch thats expensive.
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The pegbar is cheap, £3-£5 for a plastic one. A pegbar hole punch is about £500-£1000 or something crazy like that. Best thing to do if you wanna make one at home is get a ruler and glue two raised bits that is the same width of a normal hole punch. the camera operating system and software can cost around £500.
check out this website if you want. Its like an animation art shop. [link]
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awwww poor Timmy XD Life just isn't right for him is it? He looks good though, nicely animated!
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Nah, life aint grand for poor timmy, dont think the magic career will ever take off. Thank you though. its not nicely animated, it sucks, but thanks for being kind.
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oh shush, you animate better than I did in first year...I didn't learn how to cushion animation until 2nd year XD
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i say you lie! your animation was great back then and brilliant now. i got lots to improve on.
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you're well on your way to being great
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Yay! ^_^
Thankies. You is silly.
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Hey! I saw this in the glammies.Its really good animation.
Did you win?
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Thank you. 
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great animation. hope you did well on the overall project. i bet so because this rocks!
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cheers buddy, yeh I did well, I got a nomination for best animator of the year out of about 40-50 people. Cant complain, my work was shown in a cinema infront of people from animation industry.
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wow! comgratulations on that! that will really help you once you graduate i bet
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Hey this is great. I t runs real smooth and everything. LOL I Love his expression at the end as he fails miserably, aha. Good stuff
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Thanks alot buddy, glad you like it.
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Wow, very nice animation man!
I don't think I'd have the patience to draw each frame.
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thanks alot.
Its not bad. Just think, how would you prefer spending school/college/uni time, isndie boring lectures, writing essays, or drawing all day and then seeing your character animated.
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you're welcome.
Hehe, definitely drawing all day! I hate writing essays with a passion...even though the teachers like them for some odd reason
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Thanks very much buddy.
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Heheh, pretty cool; you did a nice job animating this. I hope that you are well graded for it.
Keep up the nice work.
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Thanks man. I received a Pass with Distinction for my character work and was nominated for most promising first year animator. Only 4 people were chosen, and I was the only 2d traditional animator out of the bunch, so that was cool.
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Awesome; you truly are one with great talent, my friend, and this is proof of it.
^_^
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heh, thanks alot for the kind words man. I'm just glad that I am still improving, but I know I love animation.
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Nice job here, dude. He sure knows how to work that wand.
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Cheers dude. Well, since it goes floppy, I wouldnt say so. lol
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hey, man this aint bad compared to yur last ones
this one's incredibly smooth
bout how many frames?
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cheers dude, the next ones get better than this though. As for frames, man, we're going back some for this lol The drawings on the video say 53, nearly 7 seconds long, so that would be about 175 frames including all holds, we shoot on 2s anyway, but yeh, some holds pan it out, as does reusing drawings like for the blink maybe.
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yea, yea. i learned to reuse things. im workin on an animation, but it jes takes SO long
good shidt, man
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cool man, well cant wait to see it, although I couldnt watch your other animation cos my comp doesnt play gif files which I think it was. Its a long process, but its worth it. I start making a film january. :s
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i made like a teaser trailer when i was bored one day, an people told me to finish it :S
[link]
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looks good man. Vary the spacing on the fall, looks to even. He should be accelerating and getting faster with the drop. Also when he hits the floor, to really push it, do a frame before the pose that is squashed slightly, as in lower his height, expand his width. The drawing will look weird, but when put together it will give the impression of great impact. Something to think about and try.
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thanks a lot, man. Ill overhaul that scene a lot
got any tips for mouth motion
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as in lip sync? best thing is to find tutorials if you dont know how to do it. Best to always break down sound before animating so you know when the lips should hit at what frame. Just google or search on dA lip sync and you should find a load of lips that match the sound of each letter thing.
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Nice job, I remember seeing this when nosing around the submission folder, good job and don't worry about anything you consider a flaw, we've all been there and I could have certainly done better if I'd tried harder from the start, how did you submit this one? If in Flash what settings did you use? If not then what sort of file is it? I'm up for submitting some of my line tests but past attempts have only looked really pixelated and unclear.
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yeh its flash. Just went import video and chose the final selection which said something about swf but reduces sound quality. I then changed the canvas size to 320x256 and set the frames per second to 25.
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*sigh* at the new IE not letting me see animations, videos, chatrooms and all the other cool things
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Grr. Does the settings say allow animations? If it does, just downlaod firefox. Thats what I did when IE was being a tool. I use it all the time now.
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Yeah, I would already have firefox, but I still cant afford my own computer and my old man refuses to have it on here. He seems to see it as some sort of hole in our security
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i find firefox more secure than IE, and I was very iffy about downloading new stuff, so know where he is coming from.
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WOW REALLY COOL I'D LOVE TO BE ABLE TO DO THAT SOME DAY
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Thanks alot man. Its not really that hard to do, you just gotta have the patience. Get a start and get practicing. I dont intend to be that good until I reach mid 20s at least.
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