Wrenn on break

As for my reasonings and a bigger thank you and goodbye message: long story short, I’m tired. I’ve been feeling extremely dissatisfied with the presence I’ve made on the internet the past 2 years, even if it brought me a lot of joy. I find I’ve made a lot of mistakes while handling my accounts, I haven’t taken any of this seriously. And as someone who would like to make social media a career in the future, I thought that the way people know me here is just not how I’d like to be perceived and remembered as. I’d like to start from scratch again and make sure I do everything right. And honestly it was something I considered since I created this blog in 2024. I made it with the thought that this is my last gateway into having basic teenage fun with my art. I’ve been on the internet for a while and so far I’ve never thought I’d have to take it seriously, but as I’m growing older the thought that “Salttoons” would be my last chance to be my authentic online-self has grown on me. And I truly was my authentic self! And it’s surprising how fast time has passed and now I have to write this post. I really hate to write it this early, but time flies. I’ve had my fun and it’s thanks to all of you. I’ve also been experiencing burnout a lot and struggling with art block more than usual, which is happening I’m assuming from my overall dissatisfaction with what I’m doing currently, on the internet, I mean. I need a break and to look at things with fresh eyes that aren’t tainted by whatever persona I hold on the internet, or by the people I follow and admire or by just being online a lot. Because being online, no matter how much joy it brings to me, really does suck me into it. I want to reconnect back with my irl stuff and self and to have a time to think of what I like, rather than what the internet would like. So that if I ever return in the future, I will be more responsible with my handling of my internet names, and actually succeed. At least, that’s my goal for now.

For my animations in general I use all of the preset graphs

I do only a few adjustments if I eg. want the movement to be faster/harsher.

The only two ‘custom’ graphs I use are these two, which are also basically heavy exaggerations of the preset graphs in AM

Additionally I use Oscillate + Swing to fill in the gaps between tweening, just so my image glides a little.

Usually low settings. In “Sinking Town” I had the angles on ‘Swing’ have a bigger gap, so it looks more like cardboard cutouts being moved rather than regular gliding.

For shaking/jitter I use Autoshake on low settings, Oscillate is also effective especially if you want the img to shake in one direction

I also use Motion blur a lot, I usually don’t change it’s default settings however

In my most recent animation “Fool-me-not” I didn’t use any graphs at all but utilized keyframes like this ⬇️⬇️

Note that this is only possible on 12fps.

15fps works ok too but there’s smoother movement, rather than the ‘Stop motion’ style I went for in the animation

You can also technically cut up your image and move the second half and then group it all together, but that would mean you’ll have a LOT of layers, which causes lag and is a tad bit tedious

Alternatively you can use this graph (it’s in premium though!) and adjust it to have lesser ‘keyframes’

Each ‘stair’ in this graph works as a (key)frame and looks a lot like low fps/stop motion style.

I used this one for slower/low fps spinning such as the cardboard flower element in the same animation (0:25–0:48 timeframe)

I really hope this was at least somewhat helpful or understandable. I’m usually the worst at explaining things! Feel free to ask for clarification and happy tweening!!!