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[reina-illustrates]

Completely overhauling my Senior Animation called Keep Flying because it’s complete garbage and I hate it.  I had some good segments, but overall it’s a dumpster fire.

So I just finished the redesign of the character earlier today.  I’m super happy with it.  Working on facial expressions for him.  (I still need to design him as a tween (12) and an older teenager (16-17).  I’m getting 20-21 year old from his redesign.)

I’m gonna focus a lot on higher quality background design, storytelling through character acting and framing as well as more interesting/dynamic shots.

I’m also adding a kind of secondary character (a bird) to kind of give this character a bit more of a reason as to why he’s doing what he’s doing.

Only close friends will get to see any of the animation work in progress / animatic and expression / acting tests since most of them are animators as well and can give me feedback.  Especially one of my friends who’s an absolutely amazing animator.  His stuff is just so freaking smooth it’s ridiculous.

But yeah, that’s what I’ve decided to do since quarantine is killing me and I’m going cabin crazy.

[cats-in-cradleswithsilversp00ns]

[reina-illustrates]

Drew myself in the Night In The Woods style.

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[nyctosaurid]

people say the animorphs covers are *creepy* but the actual in book transformations are all like ‘then her face cracked in two, her organs melted, her bones all snapped and reformed backwards, and her fingers and toes fused together. she couldnt cry because her tear ducts didnt fucking exist anymore. everyone looked at the ground so they wouldnt throw up looking at this’

[nyctosaurid]

[strawberryoverlord]

new art challenge: Re-draw Animorphs covers based of the books description.

[emmersdrawberry]

New art challenge: dONT

[quadpen]

I second the art challenge

[reina-illustrates]

I KNOW WHAT MY NEXT ART PIECE IS GOING TO BE!!!!!!

AND I’M SO HYPED FOR IT BECAUSE I ABSOLUTELY ADORE THE GAME AS WELL AS THE SOUND TRACK AND OH MY GOD I NEED TO GET ON THIS RIGHT NOW!!!!!!

[reina-illustrates]

Still working on this but I’ve spent ~11 hours so far on it.  A bit of a combination of art styles here.  But I got inspired by the game Solatorobo for the DS.

Just been messing around with various art styles.

[reina-illustrates]

Having to do some quick rough sketches because my backlog of artwork is dwindling for my Instagram.  Being an artist is haaaaarrrrddddd.  ;~;

[reina-illustrates]

Drew myself as a Pokémon trainer cause I’ve been replaying all the games that I have.  Also tried to draw in the style of Pokemon.

[reina-illustrates]

So I have this little comic that I do when something funny or ridiculous happens to me called Days of Reina.  Or just little events that I feel like sharing with people.

Here’s a little lineup of a few outfits I wear from day to day (colors can change but the outfit in general won’t).  As well as what my hair looks like when it’s freshly cut and I haven’t let it grow out for several months.  (I’m lazy when it comes to getting it cut.)

[reina-illustrates]

Why is this tiny little idle skateboard animation giving me such a difficult time?

[s0ffia]

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

[13eyondtherift-deactivated20220]

@supersonicstarchild for ur dream, friendo

[climbstudio]

tutorial for drawing a cat's hind legs?

sure! 

so the first thing you should know is that, in essence, a cat’s haunches are a trapezoid

a mistake i see a lot of young artists do is making the infamous “circle” haunches, with the heel being way too high. cats have very low heels and the hind leg will never be straight down like that

another mistake i see a lot is what i like to call the “dinosaur leg”, where the leg will be in 3 distinct parts. going off of a cat skeleton you might think that this is correct, but cats have very large and strong muscles in their hind legs which allow them to jump and run and climb and do cat things

 cats have butts!! and butt muscles!! draw them!!

there are different ways to draw the legs too! i’ve used the “joint” method before where you draw the joints and then draw the rest of the leg, similar to the way they teach you in school

[reina-illustrates]

Character sheet for Arkadia.  Took me a week to do all of this because I was experimenting with how to do eyes.  Not to mention I’m working with angles and sharper lines.  So yeah.  Also conveying personality through poses can be tricky.

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[ostinlein]

I quess it is the first time I’ve animated the background a little! -I am going to open COMMISSIONS this week!  The most detailed information about commissions appears in my journal on DeviantArt https://www.deviantart.com/ostinlein/journal/   Commission for https://www.deviantart.com/aurelianazure

[jack-the-lion]

This is so smooth and polished!

[awesome-hosuk-deactivated202507]

Animating is too hard….. X(

[kianamaiart]

My finished gemanimate shot I never posted!

[reina-illustrates]

Headshot of Arkadia.  Been working on her character sheet for the past week.  Having far too much fun with designing her sweatshirts.

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