Dana Barnes

Animator

[spencerwan]

Some old personal work for a series pitch I decided to stop pursuing.

My compositor and I stayed up late one night developing this line treatment as an experiment.

While we never ended up making this, we did end up using the treatment on the Hyper Light Breaker trailer.

Composite by Craig Nowicki. Animation by me.

[spencerwan]

My animation for the last Hades II Trailer.

At some point while I was working on the sound edit, I decided to go back and extend the animation for the sandal shot.

[jpolgar1]

I suddenly felt compelled to make FANimatic of "Hitori no Shita: The Outcast"

[jpolgar1]

Motorcity Clip 2 of 4

[spencerwan]

My old storyboards for The Owl House 115.

I think a lot about it ended up changing by the time it aired.

[spencerwan]

My scenes from the Hades II reveal trailer, with the exception of the last scene where I drew Hecate and Tam Lu drew Melinoe

[safy87]

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[spencerwan]

Been a while. Might start posting my animation here again.

[plasmagh0st]

That 2mb file-size limit is killing me…

Learned a Lot doing this one, really improved my drawing skills in flash 8 (especially drawing muscles), and tried out some new tricks/methods to varying success. On thing I know i need work on is keeping he viewer from getting confused with scene changes, a few times here I end up having someone enter a scene in a way they didn’t exit the last one and its causing some problems, but w/e.

(Next time I’ think i might add hair..)

better version? idkwtfimdoing

[samueldeats]

Posting my first snippet of a Naruto vs Sasuke fan animation I’m playing around with!  More to come soon!

[samueldeats]

I’ve completed a few more shots from my Naruto vs Sasuke animation and figured it was about time to post another little gif of some of what I’m doing!  This time, I decided to show some of my process, for those that’re interested…

As you can see above, I have 3 separate animations at different stages of the process.  Here’s a breakdown:

[1] I always start out with a scribble test to get the general idea of what I’m doing.  It’s ugly, it’s dirty, but it’s a very important first step!  You never want to start out straight in to detailed drawings with animation.  Make sure you’re happy with the motion first, then worry about good drawings.

[2] I then did up a naked mannequin rough to figure out what I’m doing with the body.  No details on the face or clothes yet, just want to make sure I have my general proportions and anatomy where I want them.  I also worked out a lot more of the motion.  I made tweaks in the final, but I’m setting things in stone here.

[3] Finally, I dress it up, tie it down.  If you look closely, different parts of Naruto’s body are different colors.  This is because I worked in passes.  In cases with this many moving parts, it’s best to focus on one thing at a time for the best motion.  First,  I started out with his clothes.  This allowed me to experiment with how I had the cloth flapping around in the wind without worrying about the rest of what’s going on.  After that, I worked out the hands and face.  Getting the volumes of the face right can be a bit tricky when turning it in space, but there’s a few tricks I might do another little tutorial gif on in the future. Finally, I did the hair then bandana in a similar fashion as the clothes.

Hope that’s helpful to some folks out there!  I’ll be posting more of my progress in the near future.  :)

[samueldeats]

Finished up a few shots that seemed to flow pretty well together so I put together a new GIF!  If you’re on a computer, you can view a high resolution SWF here:  http://poojipoo.deviantart.com/art/Naruto-vs-Sasuke-II-WIP02-481431995

[samueldeats]

More animation from my Naruto vs Sasuke fan animation project!  You can see it full res up on deviantart here:

http://poojipoo.deviantart.com/art/Naruto-vs-Sasuke-II-WIP03-485265338

[samueldeats]

Steven Universe is one of my favorite shows currently running; I couldn’t help but to do some fan animation for it!

If the GIF above gives you any trouble, you can watch a video up here: https://youtu.be/jCTZ-DB7blc

[howardwimshurst]

Animation demo in preparation for the release of Mastering Motion - my new advanced animation course due to launch very soon! This was so much fun to make. Members of Mastering Motion will gain access to detailed step by step walkthrough of how I animated this + source files. This is just one of 6 major chapters in the course. So excited that after a year of work it’s finally going to launch! Read the website page to learn more about the course. https://www.animatorguild.com/mastering-motion.html

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[spencerwan]

Some animation I did for the League of Legends Taliyah: Homecoming trailer

Everyone at Powerhouse worked very hard on this, especially the illustrators who had to go through and paint each individual frame during clean up.

I’m also including my first pass. It’s not very pretty, but maybe some of you are into that sort of thing?

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