#duwaynerowe

[realblacksuburbia]

A depressed Astronaut version 1. I am thinking of changing the title to external vs internal world's. I think I'll use this one for my portfolio. What do you think? #artistevolve #art🎨 #artwork #artistoninstagram #illustratorsoninstagram #instaart #instartist #illuatration #illustrators #duwaynerowe #illustrationart #illustrationgram #library #astronaut #blackart #blackartistmatter #blackartist

[lynuth]

hey, when doing your storyboards do you use story board pro

Hi there! No, for now I’ve only used Photoshop to sketch and make my final arrangement for my storyboards. I would love to try Storyboard Pro though. Have a good day!  

[tvpaintanimation]

hello i have a quick question for you, when your animating dialogue lip sync. do you animate the mouth shapes on ones or twos. The reason I ask is because am having a hard time trying to get the mouth shapes to sync up good. But I've been told you don't need to animate every single mouth shape.

It's definitely possible to animate your lip sync on twos.  As a general rule for lip sync, if it's not syncing up try moving your frames one or two frames ahead of the sound.  You also should focus more on the general mouth shapes and not animate every single sound you hear in each frame, otherwise your animation will be popping all over the place.  Say the dialogue out loud yourself and pay attention to what your mouth is doing and what shapes it's making!  You can read more about it here: http://www.keithlango.com/tutorials/old/lipSync.htm

[tvpaintanimation]

do you guys recommend any books or videos for animation layouts. how to draw out different scenes at different camera angles.

That isn't really my area, the only thing I can think of that has been probably the most helpful to me personally are these tips from Brad Bird on storyboarding and composition http://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse456/14su/resources/strybrd_the_simpsonsway.pdf 

I think about em a lot when I'm setting up shots at work!  Even though I work in 3D and the boards are already done, that doesn't mean I don't have to think about composition and where the camera should be.  Sorry I can't be more help, if anyone has any suggestions feel free to comment

[tvpaintanimation]

Hey, keys drawings are basically the same as the extremes drawings right?

Yep!  Keys can also be breakdowns, or anything that defines the motion of your animation.

[tvpaintanimation]

Animating on 2's would be to keep the drawings exposed for 2 frames according to Eric Goldberg and other 2d animation teachers. But according Richard Williams, animator survival kit he says something like animating on 2s or 14s would be to have 14 drawings. You thoughts.?

Gonna be honest here and say that I don't actually own that book so I can't look up what you're referencing, but yes animating on twos means exactly what you said.  There are 24 frames in a second for traditional animation and animating on twos means that there are 12 drawings for each second.  Not sure where the number 14 comes in!

[tvpaintanimation]

Hey, when your using software to do your animations do you do the, roughs as constructions, like in basic shapes or gesture drawings.

A little of both!  It's important when you're first getting into animation to learn the basics and get a feel for timing and spacing through basic construction shapes, then adding details on top of that later.  When you do rough gestures instead of basic shapes, it's a lot easier to lose volume or go off model.  But for me, I need to get a bit of a gesture in there to carve out the emotion and motivation of the character I'm working on. Like, don't just have a character jump, have a beat of them look up to where they're about to jump to!  Get some emotion in there, like maybe they're nervous or super confident or whatever.  That sorta stuff I like to build into my roughs.

It's easy to get lost in the details but you also need to get some strong main poses in there too.  So yeah for me, I do a mixture of both.  I get the main poses figured out as roughly defined gestures and everything inbetween is a huge mess of the biggest masses figuring their way around getting to those poses with as much weight as I can give em.

That's just me though haha, lots of people may disagree and be all CONSTRUCTION SHAPES ALL THE WAY, simplifyyyy.  And then there's the 3D people who just spline right form the start like, how do you even do that???? But people make amazing animation that way, so!!  That's why practice is so important, you have to find what works for you.

I hope that answered your question?