#whatsanimation

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hedgehogs duking it out for infinity

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My NITW fanimation, 1 year and 1 month in the making! More of me talking under the cut:

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Wow, it's DONE. Time to spill EVERYTHING.

SO when I first started working on this August last year, I neeeever thought it would have taken this long. I’d just finished a 40 second Steven Universe animation, and I LOVED the experience of seeing my drawings come to life, so I jumped right into this project, not knowing how much commitment it would take. It was hard working on this, I was really ambitious and wanted to do all these cool shots and have super smooth animation, and so a lot of hours were spent just figuring out how to pull it off - rearranging frames, adding new ones, getting the timing and consistency right, and about a bajillion undo buttons. I really zoned in on working on this over the summer, and no joke, I spent like 8 hours every weekday. Yea I know, could have done something more useful like a job or something. I started feeling really bad about wasting so much time with this slow work, when I could be improving so much more quickly in other aspects of art. 

But now that it’s finished, I can look back and see that I did learn some pretty useful skills. Now, I’m way more confident and efficient with animating, I can squash and stretch and smear, I understand perspective a lot more (which is really fun to incorporate into my daily drawings!), and I’ve learned a lot about timing frames. But I think my most important takeaway from this project is that I know I can finish something. I’ve been listening to a lot of Jake Parker’s videos (he’s a successful freelance artist), and he talked about how the world needs more people who finish stuff. I think at my age, not a lot of people can say that they worked on an animation project for a year and followed through. Even though, looking at this video, I cringe my butt off at all the old animations and laugh at how seriously I was taking this, I’m very proud of myself! Another thing from Jake Parker: finished, not perfect!

Also, I know I don’t have a huge following, but for those that have anticipated this animation, thanks for sticking around. This was a very self-motivated project, but all the awesome comments I kept getting on my progress videos gave me an extra boost and always brought a smile to my face. Thanks to my VA’s for their amazing voice-acting chops and for putting up with me when I asked them to redo all their lines haha. Finally, thank you Scott Benson, Alec Holowka, and Bethany Hockenberry for creating this amazing, beautiful, inspirational game that I still love so much :3

So that’s my story, thanks for coming. I think from now on, I’m ready to move on to creating my own ideas. I wanna make a film to enter into the Teen Animation Festival International, and I’m really excited to start working!

Thanks again for watching :)

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Some quick and rough animations of the turtle boys! Sorry for neglecting you Ralph... I’ll make it up to you one day...

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Soon guys! Thanks to anyone who has stuck with me. Again, I don’t expect to create a huge buzz with my project, but I hope some people will appreciate this and appreciate this amazing game!

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FINALLY! One year later, it's finally done. I wanna say more but I'll wait until I post it. Again thank you so much to anyone who's been following me!

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Tried out walk cycles for the first time this morning! Proud of myself for not using a reference, buut it probably would have been a smarter idea to use one lol

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Decided to make some test animations before I started working on the actual thing. I found a really good video explaining the 12 principles of animation and it’s really helped! This is probably the quality of animation I’m gonna shoot for in the video. Animation demo can be found here: https://youtu.be/PvPNkFCTG0E

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Some of my favorite shots from an animation I recently completed!