If yur new here im learning animation, so that i can learn enough to finish and submit a short to the NGTV halloween special: learn enough AND start and finish an animated short before october

and i think posting in public may help motivate me to really do it

day11: Teletubby laser

today work: 5h32min

total time: 44h46min

all advice appreciated :3

context of my understanding-- skip if you've read this previously ||

┌but yeah- [if i may ramble] im learning the ability to animate, not the how. i hope the titles don't mislead. this series isn't me finding the information sources day by day, because based on past experience finding new information that wasn't something i new already would take forever, luckily this series is all of the information i've remembered form every source i've looked at for 8 years. i just didn't do anything with the information, so i never learned the skill, i didn't try to much at all. [if i may ramble] it's like archery, you can learn that by pulling the string you make the arrow shoot. but obviously you haven't learned archery and would miss your shot, and it becomes all the more complicated when you get more specific situations, like a moving target, or your moving because your on a horse, and in fact if your on a horse it's a bumpy ride and you have to do a lot to hit your target if your doing archery on the back of a horse」

i didn't finish what i set out to do, but i finished something else that i set out to do

but first... doodles

what i was gonna do was make a full character sheet for the cat character [ his name is Milo and i have plans for him :) ]

it was taking a while so i switched to something else and never went back to it :3

[ design subject to change and probably going to change ]

it was a good opportunity to figure out character design for him because i wrote the script for his future animation in however long from now: but he's just... words and a head shape, so at least now he has an emo hair shaped fur patterning, it isn't actual hair, that's basically his... skin... :3

i did 1 reference clip today [ the clip ]

i only recreated a small bit in the middle but i made plenty of observations

in clip someone runs on screen and that part of the run is 4 frames. and i realize this is for clarity: it makes it clearer and more readable to the viewer if they get a longer bit of time to notice what's happening and more detail to the motion itself

i noticed that the rest of the run cycle is 2 poses, and i think this may only work because it's a front or back facing view but i didn't do a test to find out

here's thing: clearly the weight is what isn't working: the thing is that the clip itself is an action moving camera with particle effects and blurring swipes and i think that's how they got away with poses that don't feel weighty they didn't need to because they knew their scene would work in final version

next is noggin' space

the orange lines with outlines is something Krita is able to do for you there's no way i would have spent the time to makes this happen manually

but yeah animating on top of a photo / finished background is nice: it's sorta unintuitive for my brain to animate on blank backgrounds, and this could of been a black box in a white void but it was fun this way, besides i like the aesthetic of using photos in animation so i like it

and i wound up adding onto what id did with it and with it we get todays title [ teletubby laser ]

[ the glowing and dots on the laser are filters Krita can do for you, emboss gave it it's shadow effect, ]

but yeah :3