how did it take me THIS long to realize that Tails watching Sonic get launched out an escape pod and "DIE" is supposed to mirror Shadow in the escape pod watching Maria DIE???
Sonic even asked Tails to do something for him, a final wish to protect
the Tails and Shadow parallel has been there since the beginning
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i rlly rlly super lauuuff ur animations, i take inspiration off of it!!!! if u mind, can u give me any tips?? well it depends on what app ur using, i use alight motionn lalalalala
okay anyways I use alight motion too haha! You didnāt really specify what kind of tips so Iām just gonna talk about whatever (pls maybe be more specific next time ok??.?. Anyways Iām very bad at explaining things tho so like..haha)
⢠āto learn is to bullshit aroundā - me it really helps if you just experiment (more like play around) with effects, graphs, keyframes ect. I would sometimes just bullshit around w my am and that leads me to finding out new techniques and new ways to edit and new effects and other stuff!
⢠tutorials..? Okay personally I donāt watch tutorials I just figure it out myself but if youāre absolutely helpless I suggest searching them up,, my friends reported that theyāre very helpful ! All the good tutorials are on tiktok tho haha
⢠references, If your aiming for a specific animation then you should probably use references like a ref animation! Like how you said you take inspiration off by animations (eheheksjdh) you can also use it as a reference!
⢠references part two, okay this is specifically for tweening- if you want ārealistic movementsā then please donāt hesitate to use your own body as a reference I do it alot it helps a lot ! It helps u figure out what limb goes where and how move what yk? Okay sureeee itās kinda cringe to admit that I act out the animation memes irl š but um.. to be cringe is to be free?? Haha? Also it helps like ALOT!
⢠note of the thing I said earlier: ok I know I said ārealistic movementsā but like it actually doesnāt have to be realistic at all! Well- if your aiming for more to a cartoony tween style then yea but also it doesnāt have to realistic at all all!
⢠donāt use the same graph for everythingāok um depends on what ur doing though, if your tweening it would be nice if you use the same graph for all the keyframes but if you use different types of graphs you get a more expressive(?) type of animation! So test out your graphs
⢠donāt forget about overshoots existence. The overshoot graph is useful asf pls donāt forget about it, you can access it by clicking the graph button and pressing the 3 dots in the corner. In the last select you will see āenable overshootā, I donāt know how to explain overshoot um figure it out haha- tbh for overshoot i just do anything till I get it right,, Anywyas! To disable press the same button, but the graph will have to stay in its original lane for it to disable so donāt forget to do that
⢠keyframe placement. (for tweening) okayso this depends on what kind of graph your using. Like. It would be mostly preferred if you just line them all up but thatās mostly if youāre using ease in ease out and overshoot and the repeat graph whatever itās called,, however! If your using the elastic graph (the bouncy one my favorite ever) then keyframes placement.. doesnāt matter ! Ok it kinda does but you can set two keyframes (from different layers) they can be really far away from the other and it willl look perfectly fine! If not better!! I totally encourage doing this when u use elastic graph eheh
⢠donāt let premium discourage you. Okay um this kinda doesnāt apply to me bc Im a chud who payer for am premium butttt. Sometimes id see people avoid using premium effects because of the ads youāll need to watch after. DONT DO THIS!!!! Sure the ads are annoying asf but the premium effects are the best thing you got ! Itās worth watching a short ad over :p
⢠null is your best friend. Abuse it as much as you can. Thatās all I gotta say- ok but anyways but for some reason the null makes the layer itās patented to tweak out if you try to move it or add effects. So. When you wanna parent a layer to a null make sure you already added the moving keyframes or whatever itās called and only add the effects AFTER you parent it to the null
⢠speaking of parenting! Parenting is your second best friend ever, while tweening it is VERY recommended you use it !
⢠the lag. Alight motion is LAGGY ASF. For everyone- no one can escape the am lag! Unless u have a really good device I guess.. but to reduce the lag avoid making the whole edit/animation on one project! It will cause insane lag- ok um letās say your making a tweening video so what I suggest if you do the tweening in one project then export it to the other one with the editing + effects nd whatever ! It helps reduce the lag by a lot
⢠green screening okay this is kinda related to the one above but usually when people finish a tween to export to the other project they add a green screen and then remove it (using chroma key) on the other project,, while this is a good method is not really that good bc sometimes youāll like see green outline remains or whatever so what I prefer to do is 1, set the backround to a transparent one 2, press on the export button, then the little arrow > next toā videoā then switch it from Codec H.264/AVC. To H.265/HEVC and it will then automatically export without a backround! :D
⢠many hidden features for some reason am has just a bunch of features it doesnāt really tell u about- like. If you go to move and transform then click on the scale thijg then click on the chain looking thing on the top you will be able to separate the x scale and y scale! And if you go to color and fill and press āselect mediaā you will be able to replace the image layer you put which is like super helpful when needing to replace like letās say faces. Also the ui like idk why it took me forever to figure out that you can stretch the layers thing to give you a more clear view of them also thereās a little button next to the screen in the right side where if I drag it down ur screen becomes bigger and more clear haha(this is on ipad tho idk abt yall phone users)
⢠shapes do NOT overlook the shapes they can be actualy really helpful you can morph them into stuff and whatever- this can be helpful when learning how to use vector and or for backrounds/transitions and whatever
⢠backup copies okay um sometimes while ur editing there could be a moment where you test something or do something risky that your half sure ur gonna undo later if it fails. When you feel like u wanna do that I recommend making a backup copy of the original project- like just in case letās say you wanna undo but it crashes before you do and then u cant undo yea um thatās not rlly ideal so backup copies would be really helpful just in case things go wrong!
⢠practice, yes I know everyone hates hearing this one like ok whatever but itās trueee! With practice u become better overtime- like I started using alight motion sincee 2022 and practiced a lot ever since then so donāt say āI canāt do it!:(ā when u only have like a total of 1 hour screentime on am. It gets better overtime!
okay um sorry I donāt really know what else to put haha! If anyone has any questions pls pls donāt be afraid to ask eheh.. but pls be specific cuz sometimes I dunno what yall r talkingabout,,
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Hello. I want to let you know that your animation videos and art are very awesome. I drew this because I was a little bored, I am apologise that it is not very good. š Keep up the work :)