AMKitsune: There we go. That should be a little better now.
Better leg movement, a head the moves with the rest of the body, additional rainment details, a tail that's actually attached to her spine now, a less stretchy back and just because I can, a transparent background (which makes practically no difference here whatsoever XD)
AMKitsune: @MetalC0Mmander: While there are a few little things that now occur to me as not being right (like her tail not matching up with her moving torso and her head staying at the exact same height all the time), her back isn't standing out too much to me. However, what you're seeing might be unnatural stretching between her static neck and moving hip areas. It's the little things like this that I'm currently missing that would make this all the better. Thanks for voicing your views.
(Then again, it might also just be because the original image had quite a sharp curve in her back which isn't translating too well into animation. Who knows?)
AMKitsune: While I'm on this 'learning to animating things' kick, I decided to have a go at animating one of Cider's 'non comic panel' drawings.
I wanted to have a go at seeing how it would look if I tried animating a full body pose. This image seemed the best to use as it looked like there would be lots of balancing involved.
Before starting though, I had to break the image up into its 'component parts' (tail, arm, lifted shirt thigie and everything else) and convert it all into a more pixely style (to make it easier to recreate parts of the image that were once hidden, like the tail behind her leg).
I think I might have gone a bit overboard with the motions here and could have used toning them down a bit. Then again, I suppose 'overly gestured motions' are something that's done in cartoons from time to time, so maybe I'll just use that as my excuse? XD
AMKitsune: @Armored-Struggle-Wagon:
@OppoQuinn:
Many thanks
@ThatGuyWithAKhajiitWaifu:
While I'm glad to hear that you think they're good enough for it, I'd also imagine that it would be very unlikely, and that's ok. As we've all seen, the comic's had these kinds of fancy animations in it before from time to time, so it's not as though 'Kaz & co' can't do this themselves when they need to. Not much need for my input there.
@Toryu-Mau:
Took me a while to catch on, but do you mean those 'motion comic' things? I've only ever seen banner and box adds for those, but they do look pretty interesting.
AMKitsune: Besides the whole 'glowing' thing, I wanted to see how well I could animate a distortion effect whist keeping the aliased look intact in after effects. Turns out, you just need to set everything to draft quality when rendering! (additional gradient dithering achieved via photoshop gif export)
AMKitsune: Это хорошо , чтобы увидеть вашу модель в движении . Это делает его , кажется, так гораздо более реальным.
Как вы сделали этот глюк эффект ближе к концу видео ? Было ли это сделано вручную или предустановленный какой-то ?
AMKitsune: @Guardian: Paint tool SAI (That's it's full name) is a favourite of many 'drawing' focused artists. It has built in brush brush stroke smoothing capabilities which can help make your lines and curves look smoother with less judder and roughness. It also has special 'lineart layers' on which you can draw your lines and then click and drag the points of the lines around as you see fit afterwards. Very handy.
The biggest downside to SAI is that while it does what it does very well, it lacks quite a lot of the features found in 'more comprehensive' image editors like photoshop. You may not need or want these features right now, but it's something to bare in mind.
Moving onto photoshop, if you can get hold of it, that's one of those 'once you have it, you'll technically be able to do pretty much anything with it' kinds of programs. While it has got drawing and painting features and tools built in, it's primarily a photo editor, so as far as layering brush strokes and creating lineart goes, many people prefer SAI. Then again, some people swear by photoshop and use practically nothing else. It's one of those personal preference and 'what you're used to' kinds of thing.
Given how much Photoshop costs (and if you can't get hold of a cheap copy), I understand that the Gnu Image Manipulation Program (or GIMP for short) is essentially an open source (FREE!) version of photoshop with most of the the same tools and features.
Generally speaking, those are the sorts of programs that most digital artists seem to gravitate towards as they can offer a wide variety of oppertunity for creating art of all kinds of different styles.
Programs like graphics gale are, to my understanding at least, limited more to sprite based art. I've asked Kazerad himself about his experience with it and he said that "It's optomized for sprite animation. For PRequel, it's honestly probably not the bestchoice", so while you can make larger pictures with it, you might find it easier in the long run to use something else.
Quite honestly, there is no simple 'best program' to use. Try to get hold of as many different ones as you want and try them all. Some people stick with one program while others use multiple programs for different purposes. I've seen recordings of drawings by PlagueOfGripes where he draws the lineart in SAI and then moves over to photoshop to finish the colours.
Experiment. You'll find something that works for ya.
AMKitsune: QW's probably going to be pretty pissed off at Katia for that, but it was probably her fault for buying the catnip in the first place, so she can't get too angry...
AMKitsune: @korblborp: I REALLY wish you could scan this to .
It would just be so much more awesome with crisper details.
Still, it's pretty awesome even as it is .
AMKitsune: Not sure why, but this art style seems oddly familiar. Strange, as I don't think I'm particularly familiar with the artists work.
Still, amazingly cute stuff.
AMKitsune: The line-work and detailing on those wings are just magnificent.
(although now I can only imagine her clumsily knocking into everything and everyone with them.)
AMKitsune: @unknown_victor: That's because when I made this, Katia was broken into 4 (and a bit) layers. Her tail, torso+limbs, head and eyes. The eyelash that you can see is part of the head layer so while it can bee seen extending from her head on one side, it's not visible from the other.
(the 'and a bit' layer was just a little additional shading below her breasts to make her a little less 2 dimensional)
@furnut: You're very welcome. Thank you for wanting to use it.
AMKitsune: @furnut: You're very welcome. We do have some pretty obscure tags so it's perfectly understandable to not quite 'get' them all (I'm still discovering new ones all the time!).
AMKitsune: @MetalC0Mmander: Whoops, That 'yoyo' thing was a mistake. It should work properly from now on.
@noskilloreffort: I'm glad to hear it was useful. Now I'm anxious to see this as a spray in an in-game setting.
AMKitsune: @Drowsy-fox: As protofun said, the fact that you made this on a phone is amazing.
Regarding your internet situation, have you ever tried setting your phone up as a wifi hotspot and connecting your laptop to the internet that way? Most newish phones seem to let you do that out of the box, but if yours can't there are apps (free ones) that should let you do that. Just search for 'tethering' and you'll find more about it.
AMKitsune: @unknown_victor: I fail to see how her head position would cause her any discomfort here.
See what I mean?
Also, that pineapple juice it going to end up in a great big, sticky mess. I don't know about you, but I don't really fancy the idea of cleaning tacky fruit residue of a throne made entirely of swords.
AMKitsune: @Armored-Struggle-Wagon: There are a plethora of generic enemy designs to draw from when it comes to Oblivion (the game). Even more if you expand your scope to include all of Tamriel. In that sense, a lot of the design work has already been done for you. You've got things like rats/skeevers, wolves, mudcrabs, bandits, goblins, skeletons, cultists and necromancers. The list goes on and on.
AMKitsune: @unknown_victor: Normally, a matter like this could be easily explained with a basic explanation of the genetics of sexual reproduction. However, in a world where the phases of the moon (and for a time, it's very presence (or lack of)) can effect the eventual outcome of a conception, I'm going to have to hang up my science hat and say
AMKitsune: Isn't this what all adventurers strive for? A nice home to hang up your boots (do people even do that?) at the end of a long day of adventuring, a nice fireside chair to fall into and a mounted collection of the rarest and most valuable artefacts in the land to admire.
(If you can afford the property or download a modded/DLC player home that is XD)
AMKitsune: @ThatGuyWithAKhajiitWaifu: In this case, I'm pretty sure the casually_underdressed tag was warranted. it's meant to be used when a character's wearing 'something', but not much (or something that's particularly revealing, like this sheer shoulder drape thing). You might be confusing it with the 'very_casually_underdressed' tag (Easy mistake to make. I didn't even know there were 2 different versions until earlier today) which is for nudity.
Sure, northing's technically 'on display' here, but what little clothing there is fits the description.
AMKitsune: Katia: Wow Quill-Weave, you're sure looking Jurassic today! Have you done something new with your scales?
QW: Why, yes I Have. I'm trying out this new scale polish. Thanks for noticing.
AMKitsune: I absolutely love this art style. Something about it's simplicity combined with the rawness of the medium. Whatever the case, it's great stuff (made all the better by the fact that it was so cleanly scanned to).
AMKitsune: @Kazerad: Fair enough. It's a shame that 4chan content has a limited life to it. Once these things go, unless the content's reposted elsewhere (or saved), that's it. gone forever...
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Better leg movement, a head the moves with the rest of the body, additional rainment details, a tail that's actually attached to her spine now, a less stretchy back and just because I can, a transparent background (which makes practically no difference here whatsoever XD)
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(Then again, it might also just be because the original image had quite a sharp curve in her back which isn't translating too well into animation. Who knows?)
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I wanted to have a go at seeing how it would look if I tried animating a full body pose. This image seemed the best to use as it looked like there would be lots of balancing involved.
Before starting though, I had to break the image up into its 'component parts' (tail, arm, lifted shirt thigie and everything else) and convert it all into a more pixely style (to make it easier to recreate parts of the image that were once hidden, like the tail behind her leg).
I think I might have gone a bit overboard with the motions here and could have used toning them down a bit. Then again, I suppose 'overly gestured motions' are something that's done in cartoons from time to time, so maybe I'll just use that as my excuse? XD
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@OppoQuinn:
Many thanks
@ThatGuyWithAKhajiitWaifu:
While I'm glad to hear that you think they're good enough for it, I'd also imagine that it would be very unlikely, and that's ok. As we've all seen, the comic's had these kinds of fancy animations in it before from time to time, so it's not as though 'Kaz & co' can't do this themselves when they need to. Not much need for my input there.
@Toryu-Mau:
Took me a while to catch on, but do you mean those 'motion comic' things? I've only ever seen banner and box adds for those, but they do look pretty interesting.
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@Radian:
@ThatGuyWithAKhajiitWaifu:
@Armored-Struggle-Wagon:
@OppoQuinn:
@Enheldor:
Thank you all very much. I really wasn't expecting this to receive so much of a response.
@Toryu-Mau:
It's the 'jiggle'. Hypnotising, isn't it?
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As with the last one, high-res video's in the source.
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Как вы сделали этот глюк эффект ближе к концу видео ? Было ли это сделано вручную или предустановленный какой-то ?
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(It won't. It'll die and everyone will celebrate)
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Happy birthday Stubble Dragon
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This looks like it could be the beginning of a notepad based mini comic.
If only, if only...
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The biggest downside to SAI is that while it does what it does very well, it lacks quite a lot of the features found in 'more comprehensive' image editors like photoshop. You may not need or want these features right now, but it's something to bare in mind.
Moving onto photoshop, if you can get hold of it, that's one of those 'once you have it, you'll technically be able to do pretty much anything with it' kinds of programs. While it has got drawing and painting features and tools built in, it's primarily a photo editor, so as far as layering brush strokes and creating lineart goes, many people prefer SAI. Then again, some people swear by photoshop and use practically nothing else. It's one of those personal preference and 'what you're used to' kinds of thing.
Given how much Photoshop costs (and if you can't get hold of a cheap copy), I understand that the Gnu Image Manipulation Program (or GIMP for short) is essentially an open source (FREE!) version of photoshop with most of the the same tools and features.
Generally speaking, those are the sorts of programs that most digital artists seem to gravitate towards as they can offer a wide variety of oppertunity for creating art of all kinds of different styles.
Programs like graphics gale are, to my understanding at least, limited more to sprite based art. I've asked Kazerad himself about his experience with it and he said that "It's optomized for sprite animation. For PRequel, it's honestly probably not the bestchoice", so while you can make larger pictures with it, you might find it easier in the long run to use something else.
Quite honestly, there is no simple 'best program' to use. Try to get hold of as many different ones as you want and try them all. Some people stick with one program while others use multiple programs for different purposes. I've seen recordings of drawings by PlagueOfGripes where he draws the lineart in SAI and then moves over to photoshop to finish the colours.
Experiment. You'll find something that works for ya.
Also, nice scene here
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It would just be so much more awesome with crisper details.
Still, it's pretty awesome even as it is
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Making a Cat Fly: the Adventure
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I suppose I'll just have to make do with this for the time being.
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Still, amazingly cute stuff.
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(although now I can only imagine her clumsily knocking into everything and everyone with them.)
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Or was it ultimately worth it?
That's for you to decide...
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(the 'and a bit' layer was just a little additional shading below her breasts to make her a little less 2 dimensional)
@furnut: You're very welcome. Thank you for wanting to use it.
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That aside, as ASW said, fantastic stuff. Your scenes and the ways you draw characters in them are always adorable.
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"Long live the Mythic Dawn"
"Hail Lord Dagon"
There are just so many possibilities!
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@noskilloreffort: I'm glad to hear it was useful. Now I'm anxious to see this as a spray in an in-game setting.
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Regarding your internet situation, have you ever tried setting your phone up as a wifi hotspot and connecting your laptop to the internet that way? Most newish phones seem to let you do that out of the box, but if yours can't there are apps (free ones) that should let you do that. Just search for 'tethering' and you'll find more about it.
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See what I mean?
Also, that pineapple juice it going to end up in a great big, sticky mess. I don't know about you, but I don't really fancy the idea of cleaning tacky fruit residue of a throne made entirely of swords.
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(If you can afford the property or download a modded/DLC player home that is XD)
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Sure, northing's technically 'on display' here, but what little clothing there is fits the description.
On a different note however, Awwww, How sweet X)
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QW: Why, yes I Have. I'm trying out this new scale polish. Thanks for noticing.
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