justGoscha's

Quest for Animation Wisdom

[justgoscha]

And here's son fuzzy cats. I made brushes for RoughAnimator and playing around with them here.

[justgoscha]

All the other social networks are so stressful. Trying Tumblr again...

Here's a little scene I made in quill. Still working on it.

[justgoscha]

Starting daily sketches again. Need to improve anatomy skills. And my own abilities to see things as they are

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Study of casting shadows or light of the sun. 

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A fabulous yarrrnicorn!

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First try at animating with OpenToonz, the now free animation software from the Ghibli Studio.

...and Futurama!

The brush tool feels a lot like Flashs. The GUI is very ..uncommon.

[justgoscha]

Ultimate Walk Cycle Animation Pack

A pack compiled over the course of a year mainly consisting out of walk cycles (~90) and a few other looping animations (10+). All animations are hand-crafted frame-by-frame animations oozing with love for the craft. You get all source files (mostly Photoshop, some Krita), PNG sequences, Video files and GIFs. For detailed contents see here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6820973/README.txt. Watch the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7_QcOwva5M. How might this be useful? - Video production. - Reference & Inspiration. - Game Development / Sprite Creation. - Learning Material. - Spice up your posts on your Blog or Social Media with a looping GIF. LICENSE. Please, don't re-sell my unmodified work. Use it for whatever you want otherwise, commercial or not. When you use it, you don't have to mention me, but it sure would be nice. Here's something you could mention, if you decide to: justGoscha (my online alter ego). www.justgoscha.com. twitter.com/@justgoscha. gumroad.com/justgoscha

My “Ultimate Walk Cycle Animation Pack” now available on Gumroad!

Get 100 animations. 90 Walk Cycles. 10+ other looping animations. 

Every one as PNG sequence, VIDEO & GIF

Also source files for all the animations. ~70 PSD files and ~30 Krita files.

Get inspired by the animations or use them however you want. Quickly animate sprites based on them for example!

[justgoscha]

Here’s a video summarizing my #100DaysOfWalkcycles challenge. 

You can also buy all the assets for just $20 and use them for whatever you want! 

On gumroad https://gum.co/walkcyclepack

[justgoscha]

Peace…

Something I did in Photoshop. Took pretty long (~7h). Been Experimenting a lot with, masks and layers, brushes and techniques.

[justgoscha]

Peace...

Something I did in Photoshop. Took pretty long (~7h). Been Experimenting a lot with, masks and layers, brushes and techniques.

[cartoonbrew]

Toonz Software Used by Studio Ghibli and 'Futurama' Being Made Free and Open Source

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!

[justgoscha]

Awesome

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Coming soon!

My Collection of Walk Cycles

on Gumroad:

For updates follow me on https://gumroad.com/justgoscha

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Running Colossus

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Horse

Legs to long

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Walking Box

[justgoscha]

How do you upload the animation using Krita :0 I want them in a gif form but the export doesn't seem to have that option.

You have to click on “File>Export Animation” and then choose PNG as file type. It will be saved as a PNG image sequence. Then you convert it in another program to video or GIF. 

Here are some to try: 

http://gifmaker.me

http://ezgif.com/maker

http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php > here’s a tutorial: http://askubuntu.com/questions/43763/tool-to-convert-a-sequence-of-numbered-png-files-to-an-animated-gif

[kalidraws]

Today I gave my students a quick presentation on some of the basic considerations for composition, which I am now sharing with you! I’ve given them separate talks about color and tonal value/contrast, which are also super important compositional concerns. (I’ll be sharing those presentations too once I properly format them)

I personally love learning about different compositional techniques. It’s fun to think about the ways that the brain views & sorts images, and how we can trick it into feeling a certain way or looking at certain aspects of an image first! It’s easy to fall into compositional ruts (which I am also guilty of) because a lot of art gets by with mediocre, though serviceable, compositions. If you can generally understand what’s happening in an image then it’s generally fine. However, it’s the truly great compositions, where everything in the whole image has been considered and ‘clicks’ together, that bump up an illustration to a visual slam dunk. NC Wyeth is one of my favorite artists for this reason: his compositions are rock solid, varied based on the image’s intent, and always enhance the mood or action he is depicting.

For extra reading, some online compositional resources that I’ve found helpful or interesting include: Creative Illustration by Andrew Loomis (download it for FREE. Such a great book all-around.) Gurney Journey (check out the “Composition” tag, but really everything he posts is great) The Schweitzer guide to spotting tangents Cinemosaic (a blog by Lou Romano with some truly WONDERFUL compositions captured from various films) Where to Put the Cow by Anita Griffin

Happy composition-ing!

[artmodelsphoto]

Fooling around with pose photos in an editing app is one way to practice composition.