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Published: 2013-06-27 20:37:44 +0000 UTC; Views: 13083; Favourites: 435; Downloads: 192
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Thank you so much for all your comments and Favourites, you guys (and girls) are the best! I can't get enough of those. And of you.Tutorial >>Concept sketch <<
>>Still WIP (bigger) <<
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This is an entry for 's June challenge, the theme is water.
You can probably see the influence of The Secret of Kells and the music video of I Lived on the Moon by Kwoon.
Thanks to and our collaboration , I have learned many "useless" (according to me) digital animation techniques, some of which I have been able to implement here. I used and for this animation. It has been created in three steps:
Oh, and then exporting (CreaToon), putting the frames together (GIMP), optimising for GIF (GIMP) and putting it on dA (dA).
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This reminds me of a Japanese painting of the ocean, lol
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That's definitely part of the influence, only through 6 degrees of art Bacon. Things likeΒ The Great 
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This looks nice
Like some old ceramic illustration + steampunk cogwheels in animation.
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*googles ceramic illustration and saves it for later*
Thanks! That's certainly a feeling I wanted to approximate.
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I used this for a schools slideshow backround I hope you don't mind if you want to see it I will send the link privately.
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Nice.
As long as you credit me, I'm totally OK with that. And if you don't publish it, that's fine as well. If you put it on the internet, I appreciate a link, but it is not required, because you already credited me, right?
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Love it!!! 
''Okami''
When I see this! :3 <3 Beautiful
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Thank you! Both Okami and my inspirations for this animation were based on ancient illustrations.
But you're not the first to mention that game, I definitely need to check it out!
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That's gorgeous, it looks a bit like a background from The Secret of Kells or Song of the Sea!!
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Thank you! That means a lot to me, especially when it comes from you.
Those are two beautiful movies and this little masterpiece (I mean, according to the statistics, this is my most popular deviation) was indeed inspired by The Secret of Kells, especially when it came to the patterns on the waves. (Is it worrisome that I enjoyed going over scenes of The Secret of Kells frame by frame?)
Now that I have seen Song of the Sea 
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You're welcome! No, it's not worrisome at all, I do the same thing too with most animated movies! Hi five!!
Personally, I love CG animated films as much as hand-drawn animation as both methods have their own merits and shortcomings. That said, I wouldn't say no to a hand-drawn animation revival from Disney and/or Dreamworks, though! I live in hope.Β
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Ooooh that's gorgeous man, very nicely done. It reminds me of those books with paper constructions that unfolds when you open them. It's sad that I don't know how to explain it better. Pretty there a simple word for that too. Oh well
The representation of the wind is a nice touch.
The texture on the two big blue wave layers reinforces the "paper construct" feeling. It's ... relaxing
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You mean pop-up books? Oh, I'd love to do some real paper engineering! Thank you, that's a rather big compliment.
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Riiiiiight pop-up books!! I love those.
Now that I think about it, I have a young niece now, maybe it's time to learn how to make those ... could be fun, I'm gonna do some research.
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oh my this is just too amazing and fluid
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Haha, not the parts I did frame by frame! But thank you.
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.. Didn't you do all of it frame by frame?
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But the paper waves are pretty much the first thing I did frame by frame.
Details about how exactly I did all this can be read about in this tutorial .
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Oh I see
PS. I didn't know what paths were on Gimp before - will have to look into that [especially for fight scenes]! Right now I'm just redrawing every frame for my animations, which is the main reason I can't be bothered making them smoother. -_-
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So, basically, CreaToon spits out the animation (in single frame images or in a movie file) after you made keyframes.
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Oooh it even does movie files! That's great ~ I've been using a roundabout way to turn mine into a movie >_>
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Oh, one more thing: If you want to import animations into CreaToon, you have to do it frame by frame. So, with Open Ocean, I made a frame-by-frame animation in GIMP, then imported the single frames into CreaToon, then made one "Shader" with the first frame, then went to all successive time stamps to add each frame to each corresponding time mark. Then, I copied the time line as many times as needed for the loop. Then, at the end, I exported the animation as single frames again and compiled it into a GIF (and optimised it) in GIMP.
CreaToon is helpful, but you kind of have to know when to use it.
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Ah, I know what you mean ~ I sometimes switch back and forth between programs as well, but that's mainly for drawing.
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So why do you use CreaToon?But what I've figured is that CreaToon is sort of like β¦ Movie Maker mixed with Gimp or something? Does it allow more frames than Gimp without lagging, or does it simply make it easier to piece together an animation?I use CreaToon because it simplifies a lot of things. It kind of is a bit like Movie Maker and GIMP combined. It's actually more like Flash... and it doesn't "allow" more frames, it creates frames between given keyframes.
Here's how it works: You put in an image or part of an image and then you jump around in the time line (which is counted in the number of the resulting frames) and tell it how the image should behave. It then creates the frames between the first instance and the point in the time line you chose.
That sounds unnecessarily complicated. Here's an example:
I have drawn a car. I import it into CreaToon. I put it on the canvas, on the left. We are currently at the times tamp 0 (which will be the first frame). Next, I go to another point in the time line. I choose "40" (which will be the 41st frame). I will now move the car where it will be in the last frame: on the right.
I click on play. The car moves from left (0) to right (40) smoothly.
I can now decide that the car needs to move slower. So I take everything that's on "40" and move it to "55". Now there will be 55 frames of this car moving smoothly from left (0) to right (55).
CreaToon can move things, it can rotate them and it can resize them. It also has some sort of z-axis, which means you can rotate or move things away from you, which allows me to make simple 3D animations such as this Rubik's cube .PS. I didn't know what paths were on Gimp before - will have to look into that [especially for fight scenes]![I look forward to those!]
Paths. Usually, paths are found in vector images. I'll just assume that you need an explanation for this as well.
What you usually have, a photo, a drawing on your computer, a scan or a GIF animation, is a raster image. With pixels. Which means that if you zoom into a raster image, you get to see the pixels. Doesn't look good.
A vector image is built differently. With... math. Let's say you have a point in the middle of the image. From this point, you have a curve going in both directions. Everything below that curve is black, everything else is white. Zoom in and the curve is still a mathematical and thus smooth curve, resulting in a great zooming experience.
Here's an image to illustrate it.
In GIMP, paths are saved in a specific window/box/tab and will be saved along with the image in the XCF raw file. This is a great thing, because this way, I can reuse selections. Also lines, but I use selections rather than tracing the paths.
Let me know if there's anything more I should explain. I can tell you how to use paths in GIMP. Or maybe one of my explanations needs some refinement.
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Woah, thanks for the awesome explanation! I think I'm definitely going to check out CreaToon - I've been wondering if there was a program that did this sort of thing. Saves having to create the separate frames every time!
So what if you were doing something that is more than rotating/moving/zooming? What if the object pretty changes considerably, like the dragon's wings in my avatar, does CreaToon somehow morph these for the in-between frames?
Oh, I see, about the paths! I'd thought they were some kind of 'motion function' on GIMP, but it turns out they're selection tools. That's really helpful when colouring!
[Well I've started this fight sketch animation , am trying to root up the motivation to finish it. 
Ahhhh once again thank you so much for putting in the time to write such a detailed explanation
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One thing about CreaToon - it's made for Windows XP and below. Which is why I also wrote a tutorial on how to install it on Windows 8.So what if you were doing something that is more than rotating/moving/zooming? What if the object pretty changes considerably, like the dragon's wings in my avatar, does CreaToon somehow morph these for the in-between frames?No, unfortunately not. What you can do is making lines (straight lines that don't bend) as an image that will be manipulated (stretched, rotated, moved) and use it as reference or base. There also is a built-in tool that works on the basis of paths which would allow you to use those as lineart for the animation. The problem with that tool is that it makes the program crash a lot. Um... I don't use it a lot, but here's a test I made with that tool , in that case I made planes with the curves and filled them with a colour.
Oh, I see, about the paths! I'd thought they were some kind of 'motion function' on GIMP, but it turns out they're selection tools. That's really helpful when colouring! They are neither. I think you get the point, but I only use it as a selection tool. It can easily be used as a motion tool: Duplicate the path and change the curves slightly each time and you have more frames.
[Well, that looks complicated! Good luck.]
No problem. I always like to help with this kind of thing.
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Ooooh damn. I have a Mac ~ I just searched it up, and it doesn't work for Mac. 
The tool must be intended for simpler animations, then.
So the GIMP paths are sort of β¦ guidelines that you can save?
[Thanks
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Ah, I could have told you that!
Yes, it was advertised as a "cut-out animation tool".
Yes, paths are guidelines if you want to use them like that (but the automatic trace function takes care of that), a bit like a savable lasso tool as well. Depends on how you want to use them.
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.. whoa.
.. erm, is it okay for me to use this as my desktop background? o-o
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What you have on your computer is your business.
It's if you want to use it anywhere you can share content with other users that you have to ask. And in that case, the answer would be in the license: Do whatever you want with it, just credit me (Also known as the CC-BY license).
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you're like the one person in this group (TheSlowestAnimators) who's professional compared to everyone else ;;
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Haha, not at all.
First of all, I can't be professional because I don't earn money with it. Sadly.
Also, some of my animations may look great, but when it comes to actual skill, they only reveal my tech affinity and (at least so far) my unwillingness to seriously try out traditional animation.
Furthermore, even though I let the computer help me make the animation, it takes an eternity to finish anything. TheSlowestAnimators is definitely the right group for me.
Besides, I've seen rather good animation in the group.
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aaaaaa
by professional i meant like, really really really good! uwu !
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wow that's awesome!
also it's really really calming to warch it for a while - just what I needed
great work!
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You telling me that really means a lot to me. Thank you so much!
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