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DTfox In reply to Astralneko [2018-07-10 02:47:11 +0000 UTC]

I think you can learn to animate, it just takes a bit of patience.

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Astralneko In reply to DTfox [2018-07-10 02:47:58 +0000 UTC]

Yes...
I love that term in relation to digital art... ._.

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DTfox In reply to Astralneko [2018-07-10 03:01:13 +0000 UTC]

If you really are interested in pursuing animation, I'm sure you can achieve it. Don't give up before you start. Anything is possible if you put the time into it, as long as you're not physically handicapped.

I can give you some help and advice if you're willing to put the effort into it.

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Astralneko In reply to DTfox [2018-07-10 03:03:54 +0000 UTC]

If ya want...I mean, really my biggest problem with practicing animation is literally having not enough time to do it...I always forget to finish art and things that take me more than one day to do...

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DTfox In reply to Astralneko [2018-07-10 03:15:12 +0000 UTC]

I know that it's hard to tell from the finished product, but art is not easy for me. I just put a lot of time and work into it. Making art isn't easy, but as long as you keep working on it whenever you find some time it will get done eventually and you'll have something to be proud of. Don't think of it as something to do later on, you can start right away. Think of a simple idea and just start drawing, something simple like a blinking animation.

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Astralneko In reply to DTfox [2018-07-10 03:17:33 +0000 UTC]

Well that's easy, the character barely has to move
I mean things like this where the character physically moves their body around
Stuff that I've wanted to learn for a while, my first attempts at animation were supposed to be DS-era Pokemon-style sprites...

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DTfox In reply to Astralneko [2018-07-10 03:29:01 +0000 UTC]

Talking about the DS, if you have a DSi or 3DS there's a great program on it called Flipnote Studio which is good for learning to animate.

The way to animate moving objects is to draw a few different pictures, called keyframes. Three of them is probably enough for a simple animation. Once you have keyframes, it's not hard to look at two frames and draw what should go between them.

This tutorial is really good at explaining animation. It says it's for flash, but what it teaches works well even for traditional hand-drawn animation.

Since the tutorial is made in Flash you won't be able to see it on a phone or tablet, you will need a computer to see it.

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Astralneko In reply to DTfox [2018-07-10 03:30:18 +0000 UTC]

I have a 3DS...and I've seen some of the stuff made in Flipnote...but I can't use my 3DS right now for reasons I don't wanna get into...thanks for the help though...

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MviluUatusun In reply to HyperMedic [2018-03-30 09:14:02 +0000 UTC]

I was about to say the same thing.  The loop is almost perfectly seemless.  DT must be a professional animator to do this animation that good.

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HyperMedic In reply to MviluUatusun [2018-03-30 09:15:18 +0000 UTC]

yes definantly!! OwO

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DTfox In reply to Mimikyu-in-Disguise [2017-07-31 22:38:37 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!

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DTfox In reply to The-Freezer-Fox [2016-07-24 08:13:16 +0000 UTC]

Yes, I did.

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The-Freezer-Fox In reply to DTfox [2016-07-26 20:57:16 +0000 UTC]

That's cool! Good job on getting rid of some of the visual noise from the animation before this. I'm trying to figure out how to get rid of that myself. Keep up the good work!

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DTfox In reply to The-Freezer-Fox [2016-07-26 22:32:41 +0000 UTC]

Noise? If you're referring to the graininess, that's nothing to do with Synfig, the GIF file format has a limited amount of colors, so if your picture needs a lot of colors to look good it will look grainy. You can't get rid of it unless you save in a different format than GIF.

Synfig doesn't have settings that let you choose the color palette for the GIF file, so I export the animation as a sequence of PNG files, then open in Photoshop and choose an indexing style that results in the best appearance given the color limitations.

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The-Freezer-Fox In reply to DTfox [2016-07-26 23:00:32 +0000 UTC]

That's really clever. Thank you for sharing.

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