Tutorial Time!
No, this lady is not Gloria Swanson from Sunset Boulevard. She's a dancer in the upcoming Animan video. It's obvious by now that my next video will have a Spanish theme. To create the right atmosphere, I have to animate all types of characters. This dancer is just a part of the background, so her movement repeats in a cycle. It saves drawings! But even a short cycle like this one is a lot of drawing and animating. Download the tutorial and see for yourself!
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This is the completed cycle in color. The last drawing flows back into the first one.
I've been enjoying your videos for a while now and I think you are a GENIUS! Your work pushes all of my buttons;- from the wonderful retro feel of the graphics to the fantastic sense of humour and playfulness, to your excellent taste in men (I especially LOVE those dark haired big boys with big, round hairy butts!) Please keep on going! This is by far the best erotic animation I have seen since Tom of Finland.
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Same here! My fantasy is when one dude gets pounded by a huge group of other guys and they each leave their load in him and i couldn't find it anywhere until i found your work! thanks heaps :)
ReplyDeleteAniman, these tutorials are fantastic! This was very informative, though the sped up time is giving me the unrealistic idea that it won't take a lot of time despite your testimony otherwise. haha. I would be interested in knowing how you manipulate the timeline for timing the animation once you're done with the drawings because you get a lot of fluidity with a small amount of actual drawings.
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I don't really "manipulate" the timeline-I just scroll through it to check the action and speed. If I have a 10 drawing cycle, and it looks good, but the part from drawings #6 to #10 seems a bit fast, I'll use the timeline to put an empty space in between 6 and 7, 7 and 8, 8 and 9, and 9 and 10. To make a space between 6 and 7, I scroll the red marker in the timeline up to drawing 7, then on my keyboard, hit shift and J--this puts an empty space. Then I'll just make more drawings in those spaces. It slows down the movement, and also adds rhythm.
DeleteOn a cycle, the way you get fluidity is by adding the little touches, such as a bobbing action in the neck, or the clothes flapping behind the movement--what the animation industry calls, "follow through", "overlapping action" and "delayed secondary action"!