Finally, after many months and several people asking me how I make my animations without the quality turning into a complete pixely mess. Thank you @/faeriekougraz for trading with me and letting me use my part to make this tutorial!!
I use Krita for all of my animations, but you can use any program(s) that can export gifs and has a transform tool that can be set to the nearest neighbor mode. I first started by using Paint Tool SAI for the drawing part and Gimp for the animation part.
I animate on 10 frames per second, as it allows for a smooth effect with less individual frames.
First, you need to have the base for your animation. Each asset has to be drawn on a separate layer, so that they are easy to manipulate. This is how I divided the drawing for this animation:
Generally speaking, you don't want to have a ridiculous amount of layers to work with. The process is already very time-consuming even without that.
Now that the drawing is done, time to make each part move. For that I use the transform tool set to the nearest neighbor mode, which keeps the pixels crisp. The assets are separately copied and animated for each frame. Transforming the same copy of the asset more than once will further degrade the quality of it, so do that with caution.
Depending on the desired outcome, I move, rotate and sometimes even stretch or shrink the asset, either whole or a part of it. I do that intuitively through trial and error. Sometimes I will redo the animation several times until I get it right.
I usually start by animating the body. The rest of the assets is then moved based on that, for example the head is moved for each frame so that it's still properly connected to the neck. I then duplicate the head layer and animate it with the transform tool; that way if I have to redo the animation, I don't need to start it all over from scratch, I can just duplicate the layer again.
Animating the limbs is usually the most difficult part. Instead of dividing the limb into even more layers, I use the selection tool to animate each part separately. The process is messy and often leaves "cracks" that I then fill in by hand.
And that's basically how I make my animations! For some additional details (such as a blinking animation) I will draw over the asset. For this specific example, I erased the parts of the tongue that are hidden inside the mouth.
Hope you will find the tutorial helpful! Now go create some animations and show me what you made!!
So here we have @golday41's Angry. I'm not sure exactly what she is beyond some sort of gryphon, but i really like her design, and I wanted to draw her again as a (quite late) birthday gift!
I recorded a time lapse video for this, but as things usually go, i only remembered to start it when i already had the solid colours and lineart done. I tried a lot to do some sort of lens flare effect, but i realised that's way beyond my comprehension of how light bounces around on glass, so i just used a GIMP filter instead, i guess that's not cheating =Þ, and messing around with the filter parameters gave me a good idea of how lens flare actually work, so next time i can do it by hand using fun layer blending modes like XOR to create colour banding. =)
I feel like my background painting skills are way above my character painting skills right now, and it boils down to me not having studied proper anatomy pretty much ever. But it also depends on the kind of background and even what kind of texture i'm working on. I don't have a very clear vision of what style i want to paint, my whole style is just an emergent property of the limitations of my skills while trying to represent subjects as realistically as possible (but not hyperealistically) in a manageable timeframe. Sometimes i long for a certain Impressionistic quality in my painting, but not as extremely sketch-like as Monet, Renoir and the likes. Perhaps more like Luminism, with a clear focus on how light works. Certainly like Peredvižniki/The Itinerants, a slightly softer realism than the western-european counterpart. There's already some heavy Art Noveau influence on my art (which is a way richer art vocabulary than the stereotype of drawing a circle and arcs around a character in Alfonse Mucha's style), and I also like some of the Early Flemish Painting movement, but neither is something i want to replicate, as i find doing that pretty pointless. I don't think i'll ever settle down in one style, and i guess i'm creating something of my own as i go and explore this amazing world of light and colours. In the end, the illustration and subject at hand are way more important than any rigid set of rules.
Okays I got carried away + I'm terrible at making these for some reason . Sorry it's ugly BUT..new commission thingy! For the first time in ..3 years. LOL. U can get NSFW NOW! awesomes. Unfortunately (fortunately?) I can only do furries! Humans are .. impossible for me to draw. I'VE TRIED!
Anything specifically you want? Plz just ask. And I know prices are vague, so imma type it out here:
For regular stuff, minimum is $30
W a background, extra $15
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For NSFW/Mecha/Extra Detailed or multiple characters min is $50
W a background is extra $15
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Any questions are welcomed but yes from here on commissions are open! ^^^
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