resident riddle wizard

cecil - icon by carrotchipper - side blog - he/they - mostly memes but also: comic & animation fan stuff, bandom, movies, art that i love, occasional thousand word literary analyses

[memorycycle]

its always scary to me how you can just do anything like i could spend the last of my money right now to ride a train for 3 hours and then just be stuck out there and walk around until i die of exhaustion

[ooo-silly-worms]

Pottery sounds terrifying to me. Every post I see is like "Here's this awesome art I made!! Pray for me that it survives The Kiln™ :')" I don't think I could cope with making art that could quite easily blow up and I have no way of controlling that. You guys are true heroes.

[claypigeonpottery]

@bazanite you are so correct

[nyancrimew]

yo bro lets just dillydally later when ur free

[valtsv]

i hate it when people ask me to "explain my thought process" like hell if i know

[valtsv]

"what's going on in that head of yours?" nothing i want to be a part of

[shitpostingkats]

Olruggio: I specialize in fire magic due to its practical applications as a light source, a heat source, and a way to fend off predators. My signature spells are all about making people feel safe or comfortable, which I suppose could be read as symbolic of my larger character motivations.

Qifrey: I specialize in water magic because I fucking hate it.

[netscapeshawty]

baseball different from how i remember it

[qualitytimeswithqualitylads]

glad they added new maps to baseball

[fishpondfish]

it is impossible to watch a movie. every night i think i want to watch a movie. no movie gets watched. because it's not possible

[mousidy]

and yet they keep making movies with the hopes that one day humanity will discover a way to watch them. it's so inspiring

[cavegirlpoems]

early magic card: Dawn Hawk late-stage magic card: Hubert Farnsworth, Brilliant Inventor (tm)

early yugioh card: Cabbage Warrior late-stage yugioh card: Twilight Memnosinner Exhuvia

early pokemon card: Diglet late-stage pokemon card: Diglet ZZZ+

[nvexe]

my pronouns are she/her bc I'll never be him (anthony head playing on his pink ds in full costume on the set of merlin)

[akashicrecord]

My 5 year plan is to keep buying $8 frozen coffees until I die of preventable illness

[lesbiansforboromir]

You actually cannot skip to being good at a creative endeavour that you haven't put much practice into. You cannot trick your way out of the 'knows that your work is not what you want it to be but don't know how to improve it' stage by planning or reading or talking about it really really hard. At some point you just have to craft through it until your brain finds it's own unique way back to the 'everything I make slaps' stage and be prepared to start the cycle all over again. You just have to make that project you're excited about slightly less good than you want it to be. (Says this standing in a pool of blood and covered in blood and also coughing up a little blood)

[lesbiansforboromir]

everyone stop reblogging this I hate to be reminded of my own good advice

[victusinveritas]

[byjove]

Everyone makes fun of the millennial overpriced burger restaurants but the worst part is that they got you hooked on some bullshit and promptly shut down because their polycule broke up or whatever. You’ll never get to eat the caramelized onion apple parmesan sex bomb burger again. And it was $23 and good.

[kiyomitakada]

L's little backward glance. light last-second making his glare look 1% less like a glare. ryuk is there

[oated]

blue-haired liberal sounds like the name of a delicate endangered species of bird

[cherushiina]

the Freaks of All Time

[voidsetup1]

So, I love animation a bunch, and seeing a creator that is both insanely skilled, and willing to answer asks is really exciting! I have so many questions, and I was really hoping youd be willing to answer some bc, THIS level is my dream, and pretty much what I want to do with my life

Saw the program's in other ask, toonboom harmony vs TV paint, what do you like about either? I'm trying to decide if I should get one, bc I've been really trying to get into animation alot, but have run onto layer/ editing issues

you also said you paint in procreate, what exactly do you mean by that?

(I mainly draw and animate in procreate, but the layer limit is terrible, and I've tried procreate dream but I could never really figure it out much.)

Also, how many frames was that PHM animation?! its si smooth and dynamic and just incredible all around! what fps was it?

(Those are my main questions, but I was also wondering if either program has ways to separately animate the background and foreground, within the same frame, or smooth pans and zooms on still drawings. or if there is an easier way to that, bc I have had to basically stop motion all pans and it looks choppy and ugly lol )

Thank you for any answers you give, any bit/tip would be awsome, and very much appreciated!!!

hii tysm!!! thank you for your trust, im barely a professional 😭

answers in order:

1) i have much more experience with toonboom so i know my way around it much better than tv paint. its main cons are brushes that look too digital for my taste, and, if you do find a decent (bitmap) brush, the bucket fill is abysmal. i also heard from my peers that it crashes a lot, though it has never crashed on me. honestly, its got all i need. you can even composite in it and get similar results to Ae.

but recently ive been working in tv paint because idk, it feels better to draw in it? like the way the brush responds to the stylus feels less computer-y. its much more convincing when it comes to emulating the analogue look i like to strive for. but it comes at a cost of a much slower workflow because you cant adjust the lines without visibly ruining the quality. though its bucket fill coloring is like, almost perfect. you can even edit the lineart and the fill will update automatically!

honestly its a matter of taste and your needs. tv paint is made for traditional bitmap frame by frame animation, and toonboom is mainly used for vector rigged animation, so most of its toolset is for that.

also if you ever want to animate professionally, different projects will require different software.

TL;DR: i suggest you pirate get both lol (or at least get the free trials of both to see which you like best.)

P.S. clip studio paint is pretty good too btw! i worked in it for a production once, no complaints. its pretty similar to procreate actually, so learning curve-wise, it would be the easiest to start with.

2) i just meant i draw fully rendered static artwork in procreate lol. i just cannot learn photoshop i tried so many times😭

3) the hug animation is 22 drawings over 69 frames! the framerate is 24fps, but there are a lot of threes and fours.

4) yes you can do layers in all animation software! bro if youve only animated in procreate, any specialized software will be a weight off you back.

you can animate the camera in all three, and i know for a fact that in toonboom you can do a multiplane effect so that levels of your background can parallax. i think you can do it in tv paint too. also, in toonboom you can key the position of separate layers, add slow ins and outs and all that. very handy.

but yea biggest biggest anim tip: flip between your drawings!!! i swear its so important. like if my non dominant hand hurts, i cannot animate. use onion skin when you clean up and need precision, but when you rough things out - flip! youll feel the movement better this way.

i hope this helps and i wish you luck🫡 youll do great