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cartoonbrew

Studio Ghibli’s animation software will be made available via open source this month.

That’s right…💯% free.

Read more on CartoonBrew.com

kithandqin-deactivated20220918

This is a BIG DEAL, folks.

Animation software is, by and large, very expensive and out of the range of most people seeking to get into animation. As of March 26th, this software will become open source and available to all prospective animators!

Spread the word!

sillydrifloon

WHAT??? This is the best thing ever!! @cutepegasus @doomcat-exe

#software #freeware #industry

courtdraws

testing out new gif animation styles with some inspiration from kim sunggyu’s mv for kontrol, day and night versions

#animated illustration #q

What program do you use for your drawings?

Photoshop but with the aid of Kyle T Webster’s brush sets. Particularly the gouache and watercolours. Also behind the scenes there’s a ton of pencil sketches and thumbnails and chewing the ears off of nearby friends about anatomy.

naokiaraiza

#fx #gif #2d

phantom-labyrinth-blog

#animated illustration #gif

ddesignimator

One bright dot. So much x-particles. So peeerrttyyy…

https://vimeo.com/clementmorin/onebrightdot

#3d #short film #fx #one bright dot

ca-tsuka

Commercial animated by Jeremie Moreau for Angouleme french comic book festival.

#2d #commercial

benjybrooke

black and white gifs from 2015

#gifs #loop #gif

littledigits

TOONBOOM TUTORIALS for you - for frees

ok so , tumblr .. I need your help. Well ill post this other places too because I really want to make this accessible but

one of my goals for this year is to film toonboom harmony tutorials - I’ve worked with the program for years and have taught it for a year in a college as well. There are tutorials out there but as an animator that likes more of a traditional look I find theyre a bit limiting in what you can do with the damn thing.

here are some examples of the stuff i’ve done on my own in harmony with rigs ive made myself

1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 and heres my resume - I’ve worked in animation for awhile and I love sharing tips and tricks and help people get past the technical parts so they can start experimenting and having fun.

THIS IS MY PROBLEM : where the HELL do I start….

Theres a lot to the program , and I could start at the very beginning and go through the different things and show how to do camera moves and..show what z’d depth is and how to use drawing mode and all of that. But then part of me goes - wait , well , I’m best at animation so maybe I should just skip that part and go to animation stuff. I’m not quite sure how long or short I should make them.

so this is where I need your help

What would - YOU - prefer ?

It would help me AMAZINGLY if I could get some feedback on what people would like. Wether they prefer long tutorials of me animating whole scenes, or shorter ones based on easier questions to answer like ( how do you handle doing head turns ) or something. OR BOTH. I want to know where I can be of the most help since I dont want to add to a whole sea of tutorials that may already be out there :) I want to fill in the gaps ! . Animation with rigs is mostly what I want to focus on though so ..if you ask me questions about composting and lighting I wont be able to provide that. But you can also suggest things about animation in general…thats always a possibility regardless if its toonboom or not !

I also would like to know if a monthly poll would be good - I want to do at least one tutorial a month ( although it will probably be more if they’re not long ) , if so everyone can vote on what idea they think is the most useful at the time. So my tutorials will always be driven by what most people would like to see. But thats just an idea ! ( if thats the case i would start a new toonboom specific tumblr as well )

If you could respond to this or send me a message with your thoughts It will help a lot. Its really something I want to do for 2016 and share my knowledge as much as I can :) !

#toonboom

blancamz

So this is a little something I’ve been working on-and-off for about 1.5-2 months now.

A little while back I drew my Steven Universe gemsona Spinel. I’d been thinking of animating something with her for a while, but couldn’t really think of anything. But while talking with Joe about Gem fusions and dances and sich, I decided giving her a dance would be cool.

I am not much of a dancer, or musical or whatever, so the choreography for Spinel had been taken from a quite talented dancer / dance studio I found on YouTube. It’s the Ukranian studio Dance Centre Myway and the choreographer is Oleg Kasynets (the red-headed gent in the video). And may I say he’s an absolutely fabulous dancer. This particular bit of choreography is set to Rihanna’s Where Have You Been (0:35-0:43).

Dang, Spinels little leg and arm wraps are tricky to keep track of when animating.

Animation was done in Toon Boom Harmony 12 (Advanced).

#loop #gif dance

greyannis

Some random animation for myself when not doing animation for work. The stuff for work is all stiff and geometric so it’s nice to do something like this.

#q #short clip #2d #rough

piraticoctopus

For anyone who wants a free pose-able human reference for drawing

The other day I came across this awesome program by accident (I don’t even remember what I was actually searching for, but on the several times I’ve looked for a program like this I’ve had no luck). It’s cool enough that I wanted to share it.

It’s called DesignDoll (website here) and it’s a program that lets you shape and pose a human figure pretty much however you want.

There’s a trial version with no expiration date that can be downloaded for free, as well as the “pro license” version priced at $79. I’ve only had the free version for two days so far, so I’m not an expert and I haven’t figured out all of the features yet, but I’ve got the basics down. The website’s tutorials are actually pretty helpful for the basics, as well.

Here’s the page for download, which has a list of the features available in both versions.

There are three features the free version doesn’t have:

Can’t save OBJ files for export

Can’t download models and poses from Doll Atelier (a sharing site for users; note that the site is in Japanese, though)

It can’t load saved files

The third one means that if you make a pose, save it, and close the program, you can’t load that pose/modified model later. You have to start with the default model. I found that out when I tried to load a file from the day before (this is why reading is important…). Whether saving your modifications (and downloading models and poses) is worth $80 is up to you.

But, the default model is pretty nice and honestly if all you’re looking for is a basic pose reference it should work fairly well as it is. Here’s what it looks like:

There’s a pose tag that lets you drag each joint into place and rotate body parts. The torso and waist can be twisted separately, and it seems like everything pretty much follows the range of movement it would have on an actual human.

Even the entire shoulder area is actually movable along with the joint! See, like how the scapular area of the back raises with the arm:

The morphing tag is one of the coolest features, in my opinion. It lets you pick and choose from a library of pre-set forms for the head, chest, arms, legs, etc. It has some more realistic body shapes in addition to more anime-like ones. Don’t like the options there? Mix a few to get what you want! Each option has a slider that lets you blend as much or as little as you want into the design.

So you, too, can create beautiful things like kawaii Muscle-chan!!

The scale tag lets you mess with the proportions and connection points of different joints. This feature combined with the morphing feature not only allows more body shape variations, but it also means that you can do things like make a more digitigrade model if you want. (The feet only have an ankle joint, but for regular human poses that’s all that you really need, so whatever.)

Or you can make a weird chubby alien-like thing with giant hands and balloon tiddies if that’s more your thing.

The ability to pose hands to the extent it allows is far more than I could have hoped for from a free program. Seriously, you can change the position of each finger joint individually, as well as how spread out the fingers are from each other. Each crease on the diagram below is a point of movement, and the circles are for spread between fingers.

And to make it a bit more convenient, there’s a library of pre-set hand poses you can pick from as well, and then change the pose from that if you like.

In both versions, you can also import OBJ files from other places for the model to hold, like if you wanted to have them hold a sword or something.

Basically, this program is awesome and free and you should totally check it out if you want a good program for creating pose references.

thebookskeeper

I just wanted to add a little more to this. If you have trouble figuring out how light sources work in your drawings this also allows you to choose where to have a light source.

That shaded ball on the left is your light source. You can see how moving the point changed the shadow cast.

Oh and all those other nifty looking things in that bottom bar there, yeah it’s what you think. You can change the model color to one of these presets or even customize your own palette.

Plus for all you lovely people who want something a little more simplified to use as a pose reference

You can turn your model into the classic wire frame.

nick-nocturne

Why reblog this? Because for more visual creators, this will be like the lumberjack discovering chainsaws. “Reblog to save lives” as the saying goes.

princesscupcakecarnage

@ravesinthesky

ravesinthesky

Yesssssssss thank you @cupcakesandfucks

#ref #art ref #resource #Resources #posing

bouchet-loup

25 dessins pour décembre Dessin animé de Noël co-réalisé avec Loup Bouchet. Tous les copains et copines de l’EMCA qui le voulaient ont créé et animé leur petit personnage de Noël. Merci et bravo à tous! I directed this Christmas short with Loup Bouchet. We invited our classmate from the EMCA of Angoulême to create and animate in their own style a little Christmas character. Thanks a lot to them! Joyeux Noël à tous! Zorionak!