#nerd shit

hi! i animate frame by frame when i can, i prefer the look!

most often if i duplicate frames it's just for line boil so i'm copying a couple traces of the same frame to make a still object look more alive

as for program, my most comfortable software for animation is Macromedia Flash Professional 8, but due to its limitations i usually use it for animations that don't need any color. however 90% of the time i do my scuffed storyboard on this! flash is my first true love 😍

for more polished-looking animations, aka anything that just needs color, i use Clip Studio Paint EX. my workflow is a bit clunkier there, but that also just comes with adding any detail to animations haha, not necessarily CSP's fault (but the way the onion skin works kinda pmo smtimes)

i do any editing and effects and whatever extra thing i need in Adobe Premiere. if it's simple enough i'll just use Sony Vegas 14 (my editing first true love)

a few of the earliest colored animations i posted here were made using my ancient method of sketching/drawing/coloring the frames in Paint Tool Sai, exporting each frame individually, and editing it all together in Vegas. i literally had CSP but i was too lazy to look up how to animate on there at the time 😭😭 genuinely just made it harder for myself LMAO

i'm still practicing using Alight Motion hehe, i really like the end product but it's kinda buggy sometimes and super tedious having to tap everything, really wish there was a PC counterpart xD ik that's spoiled of me

i also used to use FlipaClip for little on-the-go projects, but the limitations frustrate me so i haven't touched it in a couple years

this is def more information than u needed but i like ranting so hi 😆

I’m gonna go back to the old ways. I’ve been toying with it forever and I need to make it happen. I need to finish de-googling and figure out how to de-meta and de-apple myself.

I am trying to name/design some regional coins of Middle Earth for a little game thing. According to Tolkien Gateway, the only canon coinage are the Gondorian castar and tharni, and the silver pennies (paid for Bill the pony) and gold piece (that Gandalf gave Butterbur for the news that the hobbits had safely met up with Strider) mentioned in FOTR. For game reasons, I plan to have one gold and one silver coin for each region. So far I've done the canon ones:

Gondorian Castar

Gondorian Tharni

Shire Gold Piece (/Gold Queen, my non-canonical name)

Shire Silver Penny

(please excuse the low resolution, they're made to be smallish icons)

In addition to these, I'd like to do at least one elven region (probably Rivendell), Arnor/Arthedain, Khazad-dûm, and then possibly circle back around to do Mirkwood and Lothlorien.