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!!Emergency Commissions!!
I started doing emergency commissions from today on, because today was my last day at work. I still have a lot of bills to pay, and I currently don’t have any income at all. I was hoping these would help me even if it’s just a little!
There are unlimited slots. If you’re interested, please send an email to >> [email protected] << so we can discuss any details!
Reblogging is also very appreciated!
(€5.– = $5.64 /// €10.– = $11.92)
Understanding animation curves.
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It took me a while to figure out the right way to propose to Max, but I’m pretty damned proud of what I came up with.
A “grass type” starter with a wooden inlay. A “fire type” starter which is black with a red gem, and a “water type” starter with a mother of pearl inlay.
I’ve been scheming like a madman for months, having things shipped to my friends, and hiding art supplies.
Max, for his part, has been telling me pretty much every day since we’ve started that he’s going to marry me. Somehow, I was still nervous when it came time to ask about making that official.
At the beginning of every adventure, you need to pick a partner. I chose him. So, I figured if he said yes, he could decide what to wear on his finger.
He said yes, by the way.
MARRY ME
A little advice for aspiring animation folks. I wrote this response to an email, but I thought I’d share here. Hopefully someone finds this helpful!
Absolutely focus on a specific area. Choose a MAIN skill, whether that’s storyboarding, animation, BG design, Vis Dev, etc. Having secondary and tertiary skills is a plus, but you should have a primary skill that is your most honed weapon. Being versed in other areas should inform your primary skill.
Make consistently good work, and post it everywhere online. Get visible. It’s hard because we live in a world saturated with creators of one kind or another, but you have to put your stuff out there. Also, when you’re ready, reach out to studios as well. Many of them have open submission periods now and again when they’re looking for new talent. Go to events and conventions to meet people in person if you can. Meeting someone in person always has greater impact than an email.
Personal projects are KEY. Working on something you’re invested in makes all the difference, because it will push you in the direction YOU want to go. Also, it will have your thumbprints all over it–personal projects are special because they show potential employers the unique perspective that you have to bring to the table. Lots of portfolios are full of school assignments, but a personal assignment will always stand out.
Keep an eye on your peers. Look at work that is aspirational to you–and measure your own work against it. Are you competing legitimately? Look at the work of others and get ideas about how you’d like to improve your own work. Be specific rather than general. Think “I’d like to make work with fantastic movement like (PICK AN ARTIST)” rather than “my work isn’t as good as (PICK AN ARTIST).” The more specific you are, the easier it is for you to blaze a path forward. The less specific you are, the easier it is to feel stuck and depressed.
Remember that you are not the work you create. You are a person with intrinsic value as a human. So often we get caught up in our work, and it becomes so preeminent in our minds that we begin to associate our own personal worth with what others think of the drawings we make. Being an artist is fun and rewarding, but don’t get so caught up in the pursuit of your goals that you forget everything else that’s wonderful about life.
Good luck as you move forward!!
The girls could wear their Halloween costume to dance class… Guess which one is my daughter :)
The “If you’re not drawing 24/7 you aren’t working hard enough.” mentality is garbage.
When I was in college there was this ongoing competitive mindset from the teachers /students that: “If you’re not drawing all night / getting 1 - 2 hours of sleep, you’re going to fall behind.” If you’re an artist you’ve probably met this kind of thinking… I’ve heard it from so many pros / tutorials.
One of my professors said that line all the time. I loved this dude. he worked at Disney on many of my favorite movies, and my young self became absorbed in this mindset. About 3 years into my degree that professor had a stroke, and when he went to the doctor they said he actually previously had something like 10+ strokes without even knowing, brought on by stress, and that he needed to slow down.
Since then I’ve heard tons of other accounts of sickness and divorce brought on from addiction to work.
A few years later I was listening to an Animation podcast interviewing Glen Keane. He brought up that there were other animators who would live and breathe their work, never going home, barely sleeping, etc.
What shocked me was that Glen Keane said something like “I ignored this idea, and decided to go home every night to spend time with my family, because I could learn just as much from my life experiences with them.”
Anyway I just wanted to take a second after hearing a statement like this again recently and let any young artists out there know that:
There’s nothing wrong with investing plenty of time studying and drawing, but also be healthy.
what did Hiccup do
Don’t you mean what DIDN’T he do I betcha he’s been tinkering with that thing for months trying to get it working after he broke it twice
“oh you’ve made plenty of marks, all in the wrong places, and NOW IN FREAKING SPACE, HICCUP.”
‘No, don’t do it.’ ‘I’m gonna do it. Hiccup whispered, his hand inching closer to the large hunk of metal by the second. ‘Don’t touch it.’ The man in the suit, the leader of NASA, told him. ‘Whoops.’ His hand, undoubtedly, had touched the machine.
Moments later, the entire thing collapsed on top of the young man. ‘Ok so maybe it was a bad idea to touch this thing.’
I don’t know what I’m doing
I never saw this addition and this is honestly amazing please give me more maybe just random objects badly photoshopped in its place. Just to be random.
okay @socially-awkward-vikings I did the thing.
someone please keep this going.
omfg
I made more @night-fury-pamphlets
as long as people keep adding i will keep reblogging this is far too good to ignore
I’m sorry
OH MY GODS
I’M CHOKInG WHAT THE FRICK
I love this sodding fandom.
“HOW DO U LIKE MY SLEEVES”
IM GONNA GET SO FUCKIGN TURNT TO ANYONE’S REMIX OF THIS
Sweet mother of Jesus let this song never end.
Cheesus fuck that was amazing
WHAT A PLEASANT SURPRISE OH MY GOD
This is the best thing ever. Just hit play. You need to.
I will never escape this song in my lifetime. Oh my God…that was amazing.
At 3 seconds I almost pressed stop.
Then I heard the lyrics. Oh god the lyrics.
Forever reblog
omg this is perfect
THIS IS SO MUCH BETTER THAN I EXPECTED
I CANNOT BE THE ONLY ONE WHO IS SCREAMING SO FUCKING LOUD RIGHT NOW.
wilde-sherlock teainthesnow ramencff clockwork-actress
Edric Yamamoto - Demo Reel {x}
PREDICTION FOR HTTYD 3
Hiccup dies
Toothless dies
Astrid dies
Stormfly dies
Gobber dies
Grump dies
Valka dies
Cloudjumper dies
Eret dies
Skullcrusher dies
Snotlout dies
Hookfang dies
Fishlegs dies
Meatlug dies
Ruffnut dies
Tuffnut dies
Barf dies
Belch dies
Gothi dies
Everyone dies
Somewhat ironically, Stoick will be the only character who doesn’t die in HTTYD 3.
Everybody else dies and Stoick returns from the dead. The ending parallels many Greek tragedies.
i wanna punch my computer why all these things with dreamworks better than Disney/Pixar?????
Don’t even with me, when you try to tell me that shit i point to DW’s latest fuck up Turbo and Pixar’s only miss Cars 2
tell me which is better, cmon
plus I don’t see dreamworks producing anything close to the disney rennaisance except for httyd (which is great like wow)
dont even
dont even with me
If I recall a few weeks back you were fangirling about Shrek? But in the field of animation (which I suppose you’re referring to as opposed to complex and/or creative storylines, in which case you have Prince of Egypt, The Road to El Dorado, Chicken Run, Shrek, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, How to Train Your Dragon, Megamind, Rise of the Guardians, and The Croods, for starters), Shrek was not a visual masterpiece in everyone’s opinion. But this is all a matter of opinion. Let’s move to some more concrete evidence.
Disney, glorious Disney, while I adore its Renaissance Era as much as the next guy, has also had 77 years to ensnare a fanbase. Whereas Dreamworks Animation was created a mere 17 years ago, and this little fledgeling company has reached a $430 million average gross, surpassing every animation company (including Walt Disney Animation Studios) aside from Pixar.
Now, if we’d care to elaborate to Pixar, it would be fair to say that Dreamworks has some pretty worthy competition. But to say that Cars 2 is its only flop is a critical understatement. It’s true that many of Pixar’s films have surpassed 90% on Rotten Tomatoes, and some Dreamworks films haven’t been able to match up. But lately, Pixar, while they have all my respect in the world, appears to be faltering. While Cars’s 74%, Brave’s 78%, and Monsters University’s 78% on Rotten Tomatoes are far from unsatisfactory reviews, they’re beaten not only by How to Train Your Dragon’s 98%, but also by The Prince of Egypt’s 79%, Chicken Run’s 97%, Shrek’s 88%, Wallace and Gromit: the Curse of the Were-Rabbit’s 95%, Kung Fu Panda’s 87%, and even Madagascar 3’s 79%. And the latter was about escaped zoo animals joining the circus.
But let’s ignore the reviews for now, because they’re not always reliable. After all, Mr. Peabody and Sherman is currently tied with Monsters University when it comes to percentage of critic likeability. While some agree, other skeptics claim that can’t be right.
So let’s move on to comparative flops.
Yes, Turbo was ridiculous. Yes, Shrek did not need that many sequels. Yes, we all try to forget Bee Movie ever existed. Dreamworks has made quite a few mistakes.
But how could Disney ever forget their wonderful gem, Home on the Range? How about the brilliant spectacle, Chicken Little? And The Brave Little Toaster was obviously a masterpiece. Best of all, how could we ever neglect that Disney has an entire company called Disneytoon Studios, devoted mostly to cheap, direct-to-video sequels that turn this:
(Tarzan, 1999)
Into this:
(Tarzan and Jane, 2002)
Disney has produced over 40 direct-to-video movies just for money’s sake.
Dreamworks has produced one.
And even then, the animation quality is not the greatest, but, well…
(Joseph, King of Dreams, 2000)
At least it has, like, actual shading.
But I’ve ranted so long about reviews and box office results that I’ve left out the good meat of this argument, animation.
The Disney Renaissance, of course, started with The Little Mermaid. A wonderful movie, yes, I’m not going to argue that at all, but let’s take a look at something.
(The Little Mermaid, 1989)
Throughout most of the movie, save for a few bits of the “Part of Your World” and “surfacing” scenes, nothing on Ariel has a shadow. Her hair, body, tail, everything, is all one solid color. The animation is smooth and the movie is beautiful, but it’s not perfect. This shading didn’t really get utilized in Disney at all until the next year.
(The Rescuers Down Under, 1990)
(Just a sidenote that the above movie got a 68% on Rotten Tomatoes, lower than multiple Dreamworks movies including Rise of the Guardians and The Croods. While it is a Disney Renaissance movie [and still a good film], it is often left underrated in many lineups for fear of tainting Disney’s “flawless” image during this era.)
Meanwhile, Dreamworks Animation’s second movie ever produced has animation and shading like this:
(The Prince of Egypt, 1998)
It’s arguable that The Prince of Egypt had a few years of animation progression on The Little Mermaid, but shading like this is a team effort, period. There’s people specialized in this. Was it a matter of technology, or stylistic choices? It’s all up for debate.
There is, however, the prominent claim that Dreamworks is so much more attentive to fine animation detail than Disney, primarily in CGI.
Lately, this post has been circulating, showing that both Disney and Pixar are just now exchanging their pasty-faced CGI leads for blotchy, detailed skin, while Dreamworks had been using details such as blotchiness for quite a few years now. But faces are always doted upon. Faces are the most obvious things noted.
Let’s take a look at some details that both companies could’ve understandably overlooked, but Dreamworks didn’t.
Foot detail.
(Disney’s Tangled, 2010)
(Dreamworks’ Rise of the Guardians, 2012)
Ice and snow detail:
(Disney’s Frozen, 2013)
(Dreamworks’ Rise of the Guardians, 2012)
Water effect on clothes and hair:
(Pixar’s Ratatouille, 2007)
(Dreamworks’ The Croods, 2013)
Now I’ll admit, some of these were super hard to compare, especially the water effects. After all, looking at when these movies came out, and the progressive allowances of animation for their times, they’re all really great. Heck, Pixar made the first computer animated movie of all time. Disney left classic musicals that people will cherish and love for ages to come. All three companies included in this argument have their ups and downs, and have created pure masterpieces amongst them. In fact, according to who you talk to, they’re all pretty much equal.
But here’s the reason I stayed up until five in the morning finishing this freaking post.
There is a difference between voicing your opinion and cussing out an entire company and the people that enjoy its work. To call Turbo Dreamworks’ latest failure (and yes, I know what word choice you used, but I’d rather keep this professional) and imply that both Disney and Pixar are centuries ahead from every other Dreamworks film ever made is horrendously disrespectful to people who have devoted years of their lives to creating these films. To every animator, screenwriter, and director who have worked so hard to bring these stories to life.
To Brenda Chapman, who, after completing The critically acclaimed Prince of Egypt, became the first female director of an animated movie for a major company (coincidentally, though she came up with the story and had brilliant credentials, Chapman was removed from the position of lead director in Brave during post-production, for hinted sexist reasons that Pixar refused to elaborate on).
To Chris Sanders, who co-wrote, co-directed, and did storyboard art for Lilo and Stitch, yet left Disney to create How to Train Your Dragon and The Croods at Dreamworks, where he remains today.
To Jeffrey Katzenburg, who actually worked on The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and The Lion King, but left Disney to freaking create Dreamworks Animation Studios and give the biggest animation company of all time a run for their money.
Your opinion is not wrong. Your opinion is not right.
My opinion is not wrong. My opinion is not right.
They are opinions, but there is a much more tactful way to voice yours when it comes to a movement that has influenced and touched millions of people, even if you cannot see the beauty in it.
So rest assured, even if you take none of my opinions—or even my evidence—to heart, that doesn’t change the fact that Dreamworks is my inspiration, and something I and so many others are willing to protect.
It has given me complex, admirable people of color.
Women with bodies and hair like mine.
A pair originally scripted to be gay.
Original stories that aren’t all pre-written fairy tales.
And above all, characters I can relate to in their struggles…
…their imperfections…
…and their dreams.
So if you can’t see why people would give Dreamworks as much credit, if not more, than you do Disney, then don’t worry, I’m not angry at you.
I just pity you.
why do we have to make it a competition? why can’t we just enjoy the amazing stories that all animation studios produce?
GOD BLESS YOU
20 things you can expect as a traditional (2D) animation student that they never tell you:
you will love your rough drawings more than your clean
if you don’t flip your drawings your teachers will know. oh they will know.
you will draw an insane amount of detail at first in hopes to impress your teachers. don’t. they’ll get you to inbetween that shit and it’s not fun. trust me, there’s a reason successful cartoon shows have nice, simple, clean designs.
line weight is hella important. as is colour theory.
storyboarding is not easy. it’s actually in demand rn because of how time consuming/difficult it is. lots of fun though especially if you’re a creative person.
the animator’s survival kit is your bible. doesn’t matter that thing weighs as much as a small child. take that shit with you everywhere. it is now your baby.
glen keane is considered a deity amongst animators.
your teachers will likely look hella young but irl be much much older. this seems to be a side effect of working in kid’s shows for over 10 years. it is a good thing.
every animator knows the impending dread of deadlines. yes, this includes your teachers. it is likely many of them will be working at studios/their own projects the same time as teaching. that is why they are immortal and their wisdom incomparable.
speaking of deadlines, say goodbye to a regular sleeping pattern and balanced lifestyle
if your wrist starts to ache like a bitch then start drawing more with your shoulder. loosey goosey baby. loosey goosey.
life drawing is essential. don’t skip that shit. anatomy is important. even if your character has six arms and five eyes you still need to be able to make them move.
you are regarded as a dying breed amongst the 3d kids. that’s ok. give them a pencil and paper and ask them to animate a 4 legged walk cycle traditionally. see what happens.
however if you’re anything like me, maya will look like a foreign language to you.
srsly wtf is maya? what sacrifice to the animation gods must i make to understand this program?
watching your favourite cartoons and animated movies regularly is important not only to motivate but is essential bonding time with your classmates. only now everyone wants to talk about how beautiful the backgrounds in steven universe are as well as cry over the character designs.
perspective is hard. period.
there is always that one kid in class who’s already done their 10,000 drawings and are untouchable. those are the ones to sit near in the hopes you can try and get some of that raw talent to rub off onto you.
coffee/energy drinks/sugar will rise to the top of your already crumbling food pyramid.
you improve lots. and some days something will just click and all of a sudden you’re firing out 40 frames an hour.
and finally no. 21 the most important thing of all: bring a blanket and something squishy to sleep on and leave them at school. there will be emergency nap times. sometimes weekly. sometimes daily.
GUYSSSSSS LOOKKKKKKK OMG THEYRE SO ADORABLE I LOVE THEM SO MUCH THEYRE TOO PRECIOUS TO EAT BUT I ATE THEM ANYWAY
So there’s Hiccup, Toothless, Astrid, a shield, and I think the yellow one is Snotlout though he reminds me of Gustav for some reason.
Visual Development by Jin Kim for Wreck It Ralph
