Mitsuki - Art School Journey (+ Animations)

[mitsuki-youko]

Thanks @nemasis1337

[mitsuki-youko]

Thanks @hojoflow

[iaser]

ooh very cool first point perspective, very nice

[mitsuki-youko]

Real quick Day 3 update >.< running outta time
Didnt get to do full figure gesture today oh wells...

did the 4th persp assignment - accidentally did 3 pt instead of 2 pt lol

dat cylinder building is bad lmao RIP

Daily figure drawing

nite pplz XD

[mitsuki-youko]

Thanks @iaser

[mitsuki-youko]

Today's. Probs gonna move on to Term 2 since this is rather comfortable.

Animated a cylinder just cuz (excited to try out opentoonz for the first time - looks so much better than animating in krita!!)

[Lockenheim]

Lovely work! Welcome to the forums! I am excited to see more from you! You have a very interesting style!

[mitsuki-youko]

Thank you so much @Lockenheim

[mitsuki-youko]

Spent the last 2 days watching the vids for Term 2. Very interesting stuff!

Today i did a bit of Anatomy 1 assignment 1 (on paper cus i was out):

Then i worked on Photoshop Assignment A. I was kind of lazy with this cus I've done this stuff before lol and graphic design is not really something im super into.. am excited to start drawing heads tmr tho.

But here's what i've got:

Now with logo design i have done this before and here is what i did around december 2021 i think. It was for a little animation thingy i was making. (Using vectors only - ill show the animation later)

Here's some more assignment stuff - designing the robots

Here's the vector stuff (got lazy here)

And the "game or dvd thing" (super low effort lol - i will work on high effort anatomy stuff tmr)

Alrighty. that's all i have done today.

As promised here is the assets for the animation i made back in december before i bought this course - i never did show it to anyone and wanna show it now

Here's the animation:

[Lockenheim]

Lovely work on these bendy shapes! I found this so so hard at first and it is still challenging! Keep it up!

[mitsuki-youko]

Thanks @Lockenheim yea those bendy thingies are hard XD but the bendy cylinders are even harder lol

Started off the day by doing Photoshop Assignments B (pretty easy stuff tho more fun the Photoshop assignment A so took more time with it.):

had a lot of fun with coloring this one and the cubes too - wanted to turn the blob into a nose but didnt have the skillz and just left it at that lol

This was also pretty fun - only used the hard and soft brush and didn't use smudge cuz i didn't really find the need for it. i think the red to blue was purely hardbrush on opacity = pressure. the rest were all default soft brush

Made a some brushes a while ago so since i understood the concept and knew how to do it, decided to skip that and just put the ones ive made before lol

Here comes the fun part.. originally was going to jump straight into anatomy and animate the head turning 360 and rotating x axis but was like oh hey for those volumes i could animate those too.. so i did - wip still need to lineart 4 things then it still needs shading then ill do the head anatomy after that (probs start that before the end of the week assuming im not too busy.)

Oh here's a sketch of me planning my animation doubt that'd make sense to anyone but me but haha in case ur curious:

And here's the vid (unlisted video so even tho it looks like is "unavailable" it still plays if u click play twice.):

[mitsuki-youko]

Added a bit more to the Volumes practice animation:

[lionelkochanowski]

damn this is crazy, where did you learn to animate?

[mitsuki-youko]

oh haha thank u so much!! XD im still noobish lol i majored in aniamtion at my community college but a some of stuff was also self taught.

[hojoflow]

Looking through your blog posts I can really feel your drive to improve and learn. Thank you for sharing your energy is infectious.

[lionelkochanowski]

Oh wow nice! I am also interested in learning some animation in the future once i get this drawing thing down lol. Would you rec going to college for it, or is it better self taught?

[mitsuki-youko]

hmm i'd say theres nothing i learned at school that i couldnt have looked up myself.. if u arent in school currently then imo self taught is better. they didnt teach anything like compositing or special effects.. or really digital animation.. we just drew traditional which was quite fun but they really just taught the basics. i can send u some vids later that could help.

Edit - ok here are the vids @lionelkochanowski

12 Principles of Animation (Official Full Series) - https://youtu.be/uDqjIdI4bF4

^ you basically really just need to know this and then play around and experiment with this on your own.

If you wanna do anime animations - https://youtu.be/lTwMjbD2adQ
Just discovered dis guy recently, he teaches stuff that i rly wanted to know but barely anyone teaches like what are those blue, red lines you see in anime studio wips

Though he uses opentoonz which is kind of hard to get into. for beginners i recommend Krita which is what i used to use - its nice but to do fancy stuff like camera stuff, sfx i'd recommend opentoonz. I used to draw in the special effects manually. Open toonz comes with sfx for animation.

Krita tut: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48pwrr4gPOA&ab_channel=JesseJ.Jones

If you're interested i post some animations and speedpaints on my youtube as well. (tho i post on IG more usually...) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2_j3oXTtc4KbePI4jvSdyA

Here's a speed paint of the animation i showed in my original post (Maxus - Red Lightning) (this was animated in krita.) https://youtu.be/G8HhJzD5Kfg

[lionelkochanowski]

Awesome! Thanks, i'll check them out once I have things down, appreciate it!

[mitsuki-youko]

Finally done with this was trying out animating in open toonz only to find out that after i drew my lineart on multiple layers that i couldnt merge them rip. decided to try out clip paint studio that i'd been eyeing for some time and omg clip paint studio is frikin amazing and everything im looking for.

Good thing i exported the mov of the lineart from opentoonz cuz i had to redo all of my lineart for 155 frames in clip paint studio which took like 2-3 days XD but yay now its done.. next im moving on to animating that face anatamy thing tho im still testing out clip paint studio so i may draw a pic using the 8 elements in term 2.

My fav frame in this whole animation

oh and here's a test run of when i first used clip paint studio before i did the lineart for that main anim (idk why it looks slower than the mov tho but it was a test run and my main anim looks good so whatevs XD)

[lionelkochanowski]

wow this is awesome! great job