DS #554: Just couldn't get a good idea for this weekly challenge today ^^''
Tried something out today: 30 seconds face studies just to see how I approach faces and how far I can get. Not satisfied with my process. Might do this every morning + 30 seconds gesture studies for half an hour.
Daily Animation practice:
Needed some practice with 'walking' not satisfied with the perspective.
DS #555: Again another Uni + work day, so sadly not enough time to do any art.
Just quickly sketched something out in Photoshop to see how bad my rendering skills have gotten (since I only draw currently). Not too shabby but feeling uncomfortable with painting already.
Hoping to finally get more time to do art next week when I'm finally free of my part time job 
Should have made him pop out more with brighter highlights now that I see it here but nevermind, was just a test.
Daily animation practice:
Was kinda discouraged by my bad 'chracter animation in perspective'-skills so I tried to animate only an environment without any characters.
May be practicing putting actual figures into the environments at a later time (gonna be so tedious to draw every line of the environment again lol but that's gonna be a good practice to draw straight lines like I do with the borders so it won't be unnecessary ;D)
Had a lot of fun doing this:
(get.Excuse; Also should have drawn the end in an extra batch of 6 frames or so but I have to study for uni now before going to bed )
DS #556: Trying to approach gestures/figures with different workflows today. Pretty quick sketches.
Daily Animation Practice:
This one was quite fun and challenging. Just trying to get the gist of proporttions and 3dspace in drawings.
So wait all your little animations are done traditionally then scanned in? Or are you just giving yourself the limitation of not re-using any frames?
It used to get mentioned every time, buuuuut:
Tools: iPad Pro + Apple Pencil + Animation+
I'm not familiar with the tools @artkouki uses, so I'm not even sure if he's looking using an onion skin (but I assume such). Generally though, I like his style of animation, since it's such a raw, quick, dirty animation style. It's just practice, after all.
@karidyas I would love to do them traditionally but that would require too much paper 
As @JesterSeraph mentioned and cited, I'm using my iPad Pro with my Apple Pencil in Animation Desk using the free version with Onion skin on (only the 2 layers below not above).
Rough process steps:
- Creating a file -> chose how many FPS and max Frames (12fps/48frames; -> 4secs)
- Each frame is one layer so I start (obviously) with the first layer and sketch out a scene that I have roughly in mind (without a storyboard or thumbnails which I should probably start doing)
- I draw every single layer. There is a 'copy' layer button but I dont use that. Takes away the practice that I need to draw consitently
- I always press 'Play' and watch it many times after drawing some frames
- If I see a pacing error I can't really delete the frame and add other frames because I'm drawing several 'boxes' on one file -> Erase everything 'above' and draw everything again (good practice but needs patience)
- Draw until I reach frame 48. Most often I need more frames but can't add any more frames (would leave the other animations with blank 'frames' but could also extend them so I may do that in the future if needed haha )
- Export to Photoshop -> crop and everything (no drawing over only resizing) -> export as .gif and upload everywhere^^
Hope that made everything clear
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DS #557:
Just sketched something from imagination within 1 hour. Not satisfied with the quality and speed but will improve as time goes on Had some difficulties with the fabric and pose in perspective -> further study/practice needed.
Tools: PS CC, Wacom Intuos Pro M
Daily Animation Practice:
Again focussing on perspectived and an explosion test. Needed some extra frames to illustrate the impact better... Maybe next time
Tools: iPad Pro + Apple Pencil + Animation Desk/Animation+
DS #558: Sooo today I started to do a challenge of doing 250 thumbnails for a group of mine (in 1 week). Sketched for like 1hour or 2 and forgot to save haha (nooby, i know). So today I'm just gonna post a sketch that I did during a lecture in university.
When I sketch things I tend to use the 'fisheye' perspective because that's what feels most natural for me when I observe =)
Tools: Pilot ballpoint pen in my notebook
Daily Animation Practice:
Tried to do something 'ordinary' / 'everyday life'ish and failed miserably as my hand anatomy is still aweful. But was a good perspective/movement pracitce.
Tools: iPad Pro + Apple Pencil + AnimationDesk
DS #559: Did some thumbnails today and picked one out that I sketched out:
Just some fun excercise 
Daily animation practice:
More of that perspective practice with the box. Not really happy with the outcome, need to get reference for the next one to improve my visual library and work on my animation basics.
Tools: iPad Pro + Apple Pencil + AnimationDesk
Ah thanks, that is crystal clear, thanks for explaining all that. Man that "draw everything above again if the pacing is wrong" is nutty 
but if you've got the patience I can see how doing it again would be helpful. You make me want to try it haha, it looks like fun
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wowow! i love these animations they are so trippy^^ awesome studies too!!
@karidyas It is exhausting but when you see it moving it's worth every second you have put in 
@fathomcube GLAD YOU LIKE IT. Thanks.
@aika Thank you very much!
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DS #560: Working on thumbnails today. Uploaded 1 page, still working on more
Tools: Pilot ballpoint pen, Moleskine sketchbook
Daily Animation Practice:
Tried to do some character stuff. Pretty hard to get the timing/flow right.
Tools: iPad Pro + Apple Pencil + AnimationDesk
Wow you can tell you really understand the form of that body, it almost looks rotoscoped when it turns. Very impressive! Gets a bit sketchy towards the end but who can blame you that's a lot of frames haha
@karidyas Haha thank you very much! Yeah I overused the smiering (dont know how to write that lol) lines (for 'fast' movements). Didn't come out as I wanted to. Need to minimize that^^
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DS #561:
Another batch of Blockout-style paintings. Still fun to do
Tools: PS CC, Wacom Intuos Pro M
Daily Animation Practice:
Back to fundamentals Some bouncing (squish&squash, little bit of anticipation, timing)
Tools: iPad Pro + Apple Pencil + AnimationDesk
DS #562:
Tested colouring while studying a photo (not using 1:1 colour, trying to come up with a pallet digitally).
Daily Animation Practice:
More of the basics
Tools: iPad Pro + Apple Pencil + AnimationDesk
Back to ovals I see The roll could still use some work. Right now, it's more like it rolls onto its other point, then moves itself again, rather than being carried by some momentum. You could have also shown a little more force in it initially tossing itself into the first roll, to show the power needed to make it back up onto the other point.
As the the diving board, awesome! Great weight, great emphasis, I really like the mid-air hang (gotta build that anticipation!) and the slight pause as the board bends down. The following quick 2-3 frames of squiggles to represent it flying off the screen are also well done to show the speed the oval has flown away at, whereas in your previous animation with the bouncing ball, the ball stays on the ground a lot more.
In the previous animation, you had the mid-air emphasis right, but you spent too many frames with the ball touching the ground and shifting in momentum. It makes the resulting bounce back up feel like it should be much, much higher, since it takes a significant amount of force to squish a solid object, and that force is then transferred back. If you want a good example of how balls react to impact, watch some videos of tennis balls bouncing and being hit in slow motion. If it doesn't have much force, it won't deform much. If it has a lot of force being applied to it (speed, getting hit by a racket, etc.), it will flatten and stretch.
@JesterSeraph Thank you so much for writing all these detailed and insightful replies! Seems like you really now your animation stuff
Yes I wanted to get the basics right before jumping really into characters and your advice really helps a lot. After today's animation practice and after reading your reply I really noticed that I do not indicate any material/weight in my ovals haha and I'm going to study some real life stuff tomorrow
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DS #563: Today I kinda studied fundamentals only.
Watched a recent video that Kim Jung Gi recorded and posted on his FB and tried to learn from it. Here's the result.
Tools: Pilot ballpoint pen on paper + some polychromo pencil sketching
Daily animation practice:
Here also some fundamentals. Oval jump and camera movement.
Tools: iPad Pro + Apple Pencil + AnimationDesk
DS #564: Didn't have the time to study real life balls for animation because I had to do 250 thumbnails haha^^
Mostly character stuff. This really helped me getting back my confidence in drawing and improved my strength in visualizing images before I draw them.
(hope you can see everything :D)
Tools: Pilot ballpoint pen, Moleskine sketchbook
(rightclick -> open in new window let's you see a bigger version)
Daily animation practice:
Tried to do the some bouncing balls with weight in mind from imagination. I hope to get more time tomorrow to do some real studying haha
Tools: iPad Pro, Apple Pencil, Animation Desk
