#animation2006

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Another thing I did at Uni today in about 45 minutes. Might use this animation for something, but for now stick it next to any music you want.

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Over the last few months at Uni I’ve been (attempting) to learn 3D animation with 3DS MAX and safe to say I think I will be sticking to 2D animation or even stop motion over this! Above are most of the little experiments I made: A bouncing ball, and kettle flying about (I dunno), a lamp (Pixar this ain’t!) and finally an attempt at a 3D version of the Labbox.

The reason the lamp gets pulled off a stage is because for some reason the lamp kept morphing when I moved it so it was kind of a happy accident! I really don’t like how the dancing looks on he Labbox bit, though the camera movement was fun. Oh well, I tried!

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My first crack at a looped animation and my first proper go at animating vehicles, mainly done for a Uni project. The file is called MXTT.swf, named after a certain arcade racing game.

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A collection of animated GIFs I made over the last six months or so, mainly for use as DeviantArt avatars and some were requests by friends on there. Some were animated in flash, others made within ImageReady.

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Here’s the complete Tron parody animation I made for the Sci-Fi Channel! They ended up including it in a video podcast along with the other animations made for them by our college as well as featuring them on their website.

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I've been sitting on this animation for quite some time now (I started it in September), and I'm really too lazy to complete it, so here it is anyway: Manga-Gaga 200: the final issue. A bit Anticlimactic maybe, but the website had a good long life span (5 years!) so it's all good.

For those who haven't been following it all this time, Manga-Gaga is a website I started back in 2001 to leave all my rants back when I was a teenage, anime obsessed nut. In a way it was sort of like a blog, without the fancy comment systems etc. Once I had got a PC of my own (the website was first put together via a Dreamcast browser), I started to scan some of my artwork and upload it there. Then, by the end of 2001, I started drawing up random little gag comics based around my favorite anime and video game characters. I never really expected to build these up to much.

Another thing I had fun mucking around with on the PC was trying to develop games using a program called Games Factory, and for a little while this was the main focus of the site. After a while, though, the comic became the centerpiece of the website, as a full fledged series with a cast of characters, who were essentially based on me and whatever mates I had made online.

In recent years I've slowly grown tired of the anime fan base. When I first discovered it, it was something new and unknown of by many. This was until I became a regular on the internet and found out just how big anime fandom is. from this I went from a otaku (look it up) to a anti-otaku, and it shows in later comics. The style also changed dramatically as it went along, from being simply a carbon copy of the whole anime look, to my own little style that mixes anime elements with other influences, like golden era cartoons. his is pretty evident when you watch this new animation compared to the issue 100 animation two years before it (that was actually my first complete Flash animation).

The website (which can still be accessed, as I don't plan to take it down for a while yet) went through nine different designs, and the hoster of the site changed pretty often, finally finding a good place to stay at my mate Ace's cosmic-hero.com (who also hosts Tea N Crumpets for me). It may of never became the next Penny Arcade or VG Cats, but it gained plenty of fans (Just take a look at the fan art section of the website!) that drove me to continue the comic and expand it further. It was all great fun, but nothing lasts forever and it's time I moved on.

Enough of my waffling though, I just hope you enjoy the animation (for how much is there, about half of what I planned to do), although only fans of the comic will really get any of it. Oh, and as for the 'GagaWing' project listed at the end of the long, long credits? That's a game I would like to start producing one day. Don't be surprised if it never happens, however, as I've been attempting to start it for years. 

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New animation coming soon!

I've finally been given the nod to start working on my 50 second animation for a TV channel, after sending an e-mail of the idea. I don't want to reveal much yet, but the animation will be stop motion, using nothing more than grid paper, felt tips and my hands. Remember that scene in The Fuji's where you see a hand drawing on then screwing up a piece of paper? Well, this animation is going to be a extension on that brief experiment. Oh, and as a requirement of the project, the movie subtlety references a classic scene from a movie. The clue is in the grid paper.

The deadline is the 1st of September, so you'll most likely see it by then, if not a short while after. Once I have a storyboard and Dope sheet sorted, I'll go up to my Uni and ask to borrow the Lunchbox kit I used for The Fuji’s and Rocket Number Nine (I'm sure I've mentioned how much I love that Lunchbox thing before). This should be fun!

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Into hibernation I go, for I finally got my hands on the kit I need to animate my 50 second animation for Sci-Fi Channel! I was supposed to get my mitts on it all Friday, but the guy who was currently using it needed it for just a little longer, but now it’s mine, all mine! HAHAHAHAHAHA! Ahem. I'm not sure how long it will take to make, but I'm gonna use it for some other experiments while I have it all to myself. See you in a couple days, or something.