SDP‘s first new video is out. Featured rapper Sido is said to be an aspiring hiphop artist from the Merkwürdische Viertel (Berlin, Germany). The music scene right now is contemplating if the alignment with SDP superband could mean a carreer breakthrough for Sido, the self proclaimed Superintelligent Drogenopfa.
…of fools who still do hand drawn frame by frame animation. you know, back in the old days, when you wanted to build a pyramid or a great wall or something, you needed lots of people that would hurl your big ass rocks and trees around to get your construction finished. Now we got machines for that. When hand drawing every frame (okay, every 2nd in this instance but still!!!) I am basically building my pyramid manually brick by brick while my neighbor orders his ready made bungalo and does something fun the rest of his afternoon.
I must confess, it gives me great personal pleasure to see my own drawings move. And I love to spend my days just making up shit and drawing it. But there is this ridiculous ratio of time spent drawing vs. story told which lets me doubt my sanity.
For my short film project John Jay Marathon I produced many little episodes, one of which centers around an astronaut. The short is called “Astronaut”. I made a little animatic and fleshed out some designs before I realised that other shorts were just better and left the project alone. And while it is definately a sign of bad character to show “making of” stuff before having the finished product, I’ll just show those anyway because even though this short may never be produced, I learned a thing or two that I wanted to share so that you guys can sometime do it too and take away my job.
A little loop from my current animation project. Continue reading
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Here are some frames from a project I have been running on the side for awhile. I hope, it’ll be done by the end of the year. The soundtrack is done and most of the animation too but I won’t be able to complete it for quite awhile. Since the characters float around here all the time and get on my fucking cracker, I’ll just give them some outlet on here.
Don’t funk with my funk, man. Computer didn’t do what I wanted him to do but instead made his own suggestions. Don’t say I don’t listen.
A little flamer dude from today’s work. It’s not really meant to loop smoothly but there you go.
This picture is not really a part of my animation that will change the way we see animation but a mere accident – a freak creation so to speak. But let me explain. For frame by frame hand drawing animation, I still fancy Adododobes Flash* for its straight forward and easy peasy workflow.
One of the neat features that every animation software has now is the “onion skin”. This function lets you see the former, the latter or both frames of the animation frame you are currently drawing in. So I was cleaning my animation of this dude here which is in black and white in the end but I had the background red to see the white lines and the onion skin was on too and – bang – this awesome dude just sat there kind of staring at me. Creepy, I know, that’s why I told you.
* Flash CS4 sucks. Too slow, too baggy, new features implemented but not in a way that can compete with other apps. I will reinstall Flash 8 when I am finished with that project. Way to fuck up a half decent product, Adobe.