Elle's Blog

14 yro artist and aspiring animator. Enjoys stories. worldbuilding, videogames and cute animals. My art is tagged as "ampersand"

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Reblog if you like others reblogging your art!

Although we’re small now, @artist-promos aims to reblog all the art on tumblr to reach a wider audience! Check out our blog for your daily dose of art made by all the wonderful and talented artists here on tumblr! Reblog this post and we will reblog your art!

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5 centimeters per second + blue

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Bee from Bee & Puppycat!!

Thanks to @etherealmagicia for helping me out <3

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HAPPY NEW YEARS! 

Let’s all try our best in 2017!!

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Onwards to 2017!

What a wild ride, 2016. What a wild roller coaster ride. I'm so glad you're finally over. For any and all new followers I've gotten in the past 6 months of this blog being on hiatus, welcome! Perhaps it's already the new year for you or you're waiting anxiously like me, but I'd like to take the time and say thank you for following! This blog is currently going through the process of getting revamped, and it'll be alive and kicking. I'm still trying to figure out an upload schedule, but once I get that down expect more art!!! I'm also going to be helping @mellowcayke with her animation series, Project Soul and @xthe-creative-cookiex with her webcomic Misfits, so expect promotional art for both of them along with original projects!! Here's for a good 2017!!

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For the ZP Secret Santa!

I actually follow the person whom I was assigned, I hope you have a happy holidays and I think you’re p cool!

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*GAAAASSSPPPP*

OH MY GOOOSH YOUR STYLE IS SO MAGNIFICENT AND PRETTY I LOVE IT!

THANK YOU! OMIGOOODDDD

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Ahh I'm so glad you like it!! ^^

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For the ZP Secret Santa!

I actually follow the person whom I was assigned, I hope you have a happy holidays and I think you’re p cool!

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If you are:

too busy to produce content

not mentally or physically up to to producing content

anxious about posting your work, unfinished or otherwise

shy/anxious about interacting with others

that’s okay

you’re not doing anything wrong.

it’s okay.

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Recent SOS arts.

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Getting ready to teach a bit of 2D Animation, and having an animated performance in story boarding for the coming fall. First time I’ll actually be leading a class - honestly I just want to see people grow from it. More info to come.

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Tagged by Char

countries ive lived in: United STates languages you speak: english, greek, a little bit of spanish favourite film of 2016: ZOOTOPIA!!!!! last article you read: Library resources shuffle your music library and put the first three songs here: THE VIRUS - TOME ost

Rainbow Factory - Oliver

Green groves of peace - TOME ost

last thing you bought online: A tablet :’) any phobias or fears: WASPs, feces, vomit, candles how would your friends describe you: mom friend/dad friend, momther, el, ellie-- oh wait thats nicknames

im very gay and i cry and im paranoid, mom friend, likes to throw mmes, loves hugs how would people that don’t like you describe you: sensitive, paranoid, ig temper, ignores those she dislikes, an asshole and an hypocrite who would you take a bullet for: all of my friends, my family, smol animals, innocent people, 

anyone who isnt an asshole

if you had money to spare, what would you buy first: a nw lptop/desktop, my laptop lags this typing as i type tag some people you want to know better: anyone who wants to do it

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Art dump! The first three are color pallete challenges,

the cute plant kiddo in the middle is Boosh. @iggys-underpants child. On the sides of them are Cheryl (left) and Athene (right)

The there’s Yellow, King Hunter, and my Marx gijinka,

then there’s my two old kirby characters

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An Orig Species I’m currently developing!

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websites:

Animation World Network

Animation Backgrounds

Animation Magazine

Animation & CGI

Animator Island

Anime News Network

Cartoon Brew

Character Design References

On Animation

Reference! Reference! (free database for animation)

11 Second Club (monthly character animation competition)

tumblr blogs:

animationart

animationforce

animationtidbits

aspiretoanimate

calartscharacteranimation

disney-moments-sketches (Allen Ostergar’s blog, animator at Walt Disney)

drawingforsuckas

fuckyeahconceptart

storyboardresources

theanimationarchive

theartofanimation

wannabeanimator

resources/tips:

Animation schools: 1 / 2 (Top 50 USA) / 3 (Top 100 international)

Which animation school is right for you? (Ringling vs. CalArts)

Don’t want to/ can’t afford art school? you’ve got other options.

Animation Mentor: The online animation school

Art school exercises!!

51 Great Animation exercises

20 things you can expect as a traditional (2D) animation student that they never tell you

A Survivor’s Guide to Life Inside an Animation Studio

Animation basics: The art of timing and spacing

Animation Notes From Ollie Johnston

Animated chart of the basic principles of animation

10 Second tip: Always Anticipate

book: Animation: Learn How to Draw Animated Cartoons by Preston Blair

book: A System for Planning and Timing Animation by Glen Keane

book: Timing for animation by Harold Whitaker and John Halas

book: Gesture Drawing for animation by Walt Stanchfield

Basic 3D Animation Terminology

Digital pencil test!!

Keys to Emotion in Animation

Lessons from Disney’s Zootopia

Model Sheets central

The importance of Acting in Animation by Segio Pablos

Printable exposure/dope sheet

Phoneme Chart

Recommended reading for animation students and enthusiasts

The 5 Types of Animation

The Know-How of Cartooning 

The Unofficial Truth about The Animation Industry

Why Disney Sends Its Animators To Life Drawing Classes

Walk/Run Cycles reference

What is Pixar looking for in Animators? (scroll down)

Portfolio Advice for The Disney Animation Internship

What is Rigging?

3D Rigging Terminology

3D Modeling Terminology

tutorials:

Animation for Beginners: Where do I start

Animation Physics (Video tutorials on physics for animation artists)

Animation tutorial part. 1 AKA “the secret of animation”

Appealing Poses in Animation

Background & Movement in TV

Blinking tips

Breakdown tutorial (middle frame between to keys)

Drawing & Composition for visual storytelling

Drawing for Animation

Drawing a Likeness

Animation fundamentals + tutorials

Filmmaking: Composition and Framing

Getting Shape Change

How to animate using photoshop

How to animate Characters in Perspective

How to Animate Head Turns

How to Draw Gesture

OpeenToonz tutorials masterpost

Overlapping Action and Drag

Portfolio tips / Making A Successful Portfolio

Lyp Sync tutorial

Line of action

Basics of good cartooning 1-12 by Sherm Cohen

Squash & Stretch tutorial

Squash and Stretch 2

Storyboarding tutorials by Sherm Cohen

The Illusion of Life: 12 Principles of Animation

Tilt, Flow & Rhythm

Underlying Structure When Animating Expressions

TVPaint tutorial: Uploading and Coloring Scanned Animation

supplies (traditional animation):

10 Essential Art Supplies for the Traditional Animator

How to Use a Light Table for Animation

Making a Simple Animation Lightbox

Peg bars, Animation Disk & Desk

softwares:

free

Blender (3D creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline: modeling, rigging, animation,etc)

Emofuri (animate using .psd files)

Google Sketchup (

Live2D ( animation/drawing software

OpenToonz (Studio Ghibli’s open source animation software)

Pencil2D (create traditional hand-drawn animation (cartoon) using both bitmap and vector graphics)

Renderman (Pixar’s free 3D rendering software)

Sculptris (Free digital sculpting tool by the makers of Zbrush

SculptGL (Online modelling program)

Synfig (2d animation using a vector and bitmap artwork)

paid

Zbrush (digital sculpting sw by Pixologic)

Mudbox (digital sculpting sw by Autodesk)

Cinema 4D (digital sculpting sw by Maxon)

TVPaint  (2d animation)

animation studios:

Aardman (Bristol, UK)

Blue Sky Studios (Greenwich, USA)

Dreamworks (Glendale, USA)

Fox Animation (USA)

Imagination Studios/CN (Burbank, USA)

Industrial Light & Magic (San Francisco, USA)

Laika (Hillsboro, USA)

Luma Pictures (USA / Melbourne, Australia)

Nickelodeon Animation (Burbank, USA)

Pixar (Emeryville, CA)

Rise FX (Berlin, Germany)

Studio Ghibli (Tokyo, Japan)

Sony Picture Imageworks (Vancouver, Canada)

Sony Pictures Animation (Culver City, CA)

Walt Disney Animation (Burbank, CA)

Weta Digital (Wellington, New Zealand)

inspiration: worth watching short films

Coda by and maps and plans

Contre Temps by the Contre Temps Team

Duet by Glen Keane

DOG ENVY by Olivia Huynh

Fallin Floyd by  il Luster

French Roast

Gravity by Ailin Liu

In Between by Gobelins

Jinxy Jenkins and Lucky Lou by Michael Bidinger and Michelle Kwon

My Big Brother by Jason Rayner

Night Light by Qing Han

Nephtali by Glen Keane

Nocturne by Kari Casady

Historia de un Oso by Gabriel Osorio

Home Sweet Home  by home sweet home the film

One Bright Dot by  Clément Morin

Stickboy by Giant Ant

SOAR by Alyce Tzue

Tsunami by The Animation Workshop

Thought of You by Ryan Woodward

Vagabond by  The Animation Workshop

5 Gobelins Shorts That Pay Tribute To Women Animation Pioneers

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@supersonicstarchild for ur dream, friendo

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1. Ah Fai was a chief animator for McDull’s animated features. He’s super cool. Ultimate senpai. 

2. Previous post on breakdowns right here 

Some thoughts on acceleration and force

I presented this in the order of how I slowly understood the trick of delivering force - first an abstract concept of impact taught by Ah Fai, then a more complicated discovery on the acceleration pattern, last back to a more abstract concept of breakdowns. 

Like I’ve previously stressed, 2D animation is everything but one single approach. There’s no one rule that rules them all, but interchangeable ideas with math, or physics, or music, etc. There’s no “perfect” animation either, but what is perceived as organic and dynamic. E.g., using the Fibonacci numbers to animate didn’t bring me a perfect animation! On the other hand, a tiny change in the pattern could already make the feeling of force so much more powerful. 

Not so much of a tutorial than a personal experience. I hope you find this interesting hahaha 

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Recent arts!

The top three are developments for a future short film I might do,

then there’s revamps of my charas Terry Wilson and Voxis Corpus,

A drawing of an adorable adopt @icycayke​ made, which now belongs to @creativecookiedragon​

And a painting of my character, More.

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I got your back, cousin. Just head over to Havocscope.

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