#animation things

Hey there everyone! I wanted to share some of my art processes and favorite frames from my recent original character animation, Meet Compsy!

Speaking of, I can't believe it was featured in the top 5 daily picks over on Newgrounds! THAT'S SO COOL!!! Especially since this was my first attempt at getting back into animation again, something I haven't tried in at least 7 years or so. DANG!

It’s so wild that I got to be a panelist at a ToonBoom animation event today! Especially since public speaking makes me shake with nervousness. I got to talk about what it was like to work on Nature Cat! Here is the link to the event if anyone is interested in the animation industry:

Thinking about it now, I’ve seen a lot of people complain about Yashahime’s art style as of late. It got me flipping through the few volumes of Inuyasha that I do have on hand and got me thinking, yknow? I’m pretty sure the reason the new art style of Yashahime looks off is because Sunrise is trying to remain more faithful to Rumiko’s art style this time around. 🤔

Do they have the budget to keep the frames as consistent as possible? No, but at least they’re doing what they can.

If one looks through Rumiko’s old art work, especially the earlier volumes of the manga, the way she draws her characters’ body proportions are more stocky and rounded, compared to the original anime. The original anime definitely made it so that all of the characters look aged up; they look much older compared to their manga counterparts.

It’s definitely a bit jarring, especially for those who grew up with the original anime (like moi), but not that much of a surprise. Other reboots like Sailor Moon and Cardcaptor Sakura have also done the same with their respective studios, so it’s only natural that Sunrise would follow suit.

Still, it’s no wonder the antis have been using it as one of their many basis for the Sessrin debacle, lol I get being uncomfortable with the ship and all, but peddling an argument based on new/updated animation that’s more of a technicality than anything else and drawing hasty conclusions from it...meh, I’ll stop right there. XD

A deltarune animation thing

Speaking of deltarune animations, im working on one now

Sorry if im not posting much, im active as hekcle on my framecast account

I have a lot of experience with that actually! I’ve been animating that way since 2007 (though I didn’t start practicing seriously until a few years ago).

I used to use Photoshop and gifmaker.me . Basically I would draw all the frames as separate layers, and if I wanted to see the frame before or after the one I was working on I would turn the opacity down to 30% and turn the visibility on and off. I usually still wouldn’t be able to tell how the animation was coming along so I’d have to make a gif online by saving every layer as a separate jpg file. Photoshop can make gifs but making one online is faster. On gifmaker I animated at 87-100 “milliseconds”, whatever that means. 87 milliseconds on that site looks like 12 frames per second so it worked for me.

Keep in mind, it’s VERY hard to animate this way! I didn’t even realize how much of a headache it actually was until I switched to Toon Boom Harmony just 2 weeks ago! If you really want to animate and you have the money, it’s worth it. It saves so much time, I could have learned a lot faster if I had an actual animation program this whole time. I’m still doing frame by frame, so the program isn’t filling in any frames for me, it just makes things easier! Also I can’t really say how Toon Boom compares to other programs, I just know that I like it so far and it’s waaay better than using Photoshop.