Our Animation Project

[gndagnor]

Hehe, this is so cool! I was googling for animation forums and found this place! Whee!!

Me n my group are doing an animation thingy to test our skills n have fun. Going to show the finished version at a local comic convention here. It's not much though, no story, just our characters animated in a video game opening kinda way n stuff...

Here's my group's DA page : http://mars-and-uranus.deviantart.com/

Here's our animatic on Youtube : http://youtube.com/watch?v=U1a1CmIpUBA
Here's the animatic in Deviant Art : http://www.deviantart.com/view/34896304/

This is REALLY short test animation fully finished : http://youtube.com/watch?v=oWnYqvStrqk [Yeah its pretty short but just to get an idea how the whole thing is gonna look like]

Malaysia's 2D industry is practically DEAD. So we hope we can make a big impression on the local and overseas people with this project. Hopefully make short films with actual stories and send em to animation festivals [OMG, excited!] XD

So uhm please tell us what you think of us newbies :)

Now I need to check out and whore around the forum hahaha ^O^

[KOTK]

HOLY ****!

Awesome stuff on the animatic and nice little short clip there you guys got. Can't wait to see finished product, yo.:D :cool:

[cartuneman]

Nice stuff :D


I'll post more later liking what I see though really like it.

cartuneman

[jackhalfaprayer]

lookin' good, i'll say the animatic doesn't seem to be timed out properly for animation purposes. that's no real worry.

the rough shot with the scarf loop looks nice! lovin' the lighting.

Good luck!

[NOOB!]

i agree with jack *wtf a noob/jack agreement?!??!* thats its not timed for animation purposes,i.e. everything is happening too fast,usually an animatic is used as a time guide so people know what is going to happen and when.

but damn,great visuals,thanks for choosing us as your animation forum,u mean where finally google listed?? lol took long enough.

[Terro]

Welcome to AF and thanks for sharing your work with us.

I have to disagree with Jack and Noob here. The animatics worked for me. To me this is more of a intro animatic and they are usually pretty fast and quickly merge from scene to scene. Am I correct? Because if this isn't an intro then it is a little to fast, haha :p

But besides the speed of the animatic I think it was really awsome. It's got that Final Fantasy style to it and the angles of the shots really work.

You better keep us updated, now that you found us, there is no getting out :)

[Simon Smith]

A nice animatic! It comunicates movement and pace quite well with the music. I have already seen your colour test on youtube and if you can keep up the same level of quality as seen on that and the stills on your deviant gallery, then your laughing my friend! Well done :) I hope to see more in the future.....

[gndagnor]

KOTK - Thanks man :B We're in a slump now cause everyone's busy but hopefully well catch up this weekend! :D

cartuneman - Thanks :D We'll keep you guys posted!

jackhalfaprayer - Oh haha ok :B But thanks for the crit! We're learning a lot from just doing this project :D

NOOB! - Well it's just like a game opening so yeah it's fast XD And congrats for getting google listed! hehe

Terro - Hehe, YES! Exactly!! And I LOVE THIS FORUM!

Simon Smith - Oh I'm pretty sure it's going to be better! :D I did that short clip alone so with all of us working on the real thing, it's gonna be blast!! ^_^

Cheers! :D And thanks everyone for making me feel so welcomed, you guys are all friendly its spooky XD

[gndagnor]

Color keys, some need revision :)

http://img123.imageshack.us/img123/8053/indexsheetni5.th.jpg (http://img123.imageshack.us/my.php?image=indexsheetni5.jpg)

Also in video form with music ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKD6iAmMdoQ

[NOOB!]

your colour pallete is tasty!

Me loves watching the production,make a behind the scenes vid too!

nice simple schemes! but er....hurry up!

joke hehe..

[andy]

hey gndagnor, congrats on the work so far... it's really great!

if you guys need a voice actor at some point, let me know. :)

[flashcartoons]

really nice! and wow this forum is really busy! :D

[Sangfroid]

looking realy promising man, keep us posted :D. You might be overdoing those colour keys a bit there. You shouldn't need that much detail and it may confuse things when you come to colouring the final scenes. They have some realy nice colour schemes in there though.

here's one from a students film to show you what I mean http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2721/1909/1600/ColorkeysSMALL.1.jpg

This seems like quite an ambitous project you got going, so make sure you are not making anyhting more complicated than it needs to be. Especaily if you are working to a tight deadline.

If you need any feedback along the way don't be afriad to post rough cuts and the such here :).

Look forward to seeing more.

[NOOB!]

looking realy promising man, keep us posted :D. You might be overdoing those colour keys a bit there. You shouldn't need that much detail and it may confuse things when you come to colouring the final scenes. They have some realy nice colour schemes in there though.

here's one from a students film to show you what I mean http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2721/1909/1600/ColorkeysSMALL.1.jpg



dude when the hell is david gunna release that movie public..jeez.:rolleyes:

edit: oh and i agree with sang here,i like the colour choices,but these seem more like screen shots than colour keys,but bleh,aslong as it helps ya.Maybe u just made these from the storyboards

[Neo_Crisis]

Hey ,I seen this some where before, oh yeah, I have you guys on my watch list on deviantArt. lol Nice stuff!!!

[gndagnor]

NOOB! - Haha thx man :) Well we're trying our best but you know day jobs :(

andy - Lol sure man I'll keep you in mind if we decide to make voiceovers for future movies :D

flashcartoons - Haha :D

Sangfroid - Oh yeah I kinda went overboard lol! Thx for the reminder :) I cant see the pics though :(

NOOB! - Yeah I just colored the storyboards XD

Neo_Crisis - Lol, hey Neo~ [waves] ^_^

[gndagnor]

Some animation layout for our animators~

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/39444406/

[NOOB!]

looking gud!

[KOTK]

I think I just shat my pants.:o

This is off the hook, son.:cool:

[gndagnor]

A few of the BGs are done~ :D

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/39680801/

NOOB! & KOTK - Thx doods! :D We'll keep ya posted~

[KillerEmu]

Nice Bgs man I also like your storyboard and characters looks like it will be pretty sweet when itts done

[RageArtworks]

Wow. They are awesome. I mean, more than awesome. Great.
You've got MY watch, hehe. :)

[gndagnor]

Yes, our first scene done! We're so happy with it ^_^ Animated by our very Ayonakari http://ayonakari.deviantart.com/

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/39894688/

And as a bonus, MnU's Background department have setup a small tutorial on how to paint grass: http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/39894987/

I can't wait to see the whole think finished :D

KillerEmu - Thx, we all think so too ^_^ We're learning all new stuff as we go along~

RageArtworks - Yay, thank yu! :D

I'll keep you all posted in our updates ^_^

[gndagnor]

Finished some more bakgrounds :) There's also some gif animations on how the BGs will be used:
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/40316763/


And also a tutorial on how we added texture to our BGs:
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/40316899/

:)

[gndagnor]

A test to see how the effect animation would look like :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjvLVKJoFGY

[dlpwillywonka]

Still beautiful. Forgot to comment on this a while ago. But yea great work.

[Rink]

Wow. Even the animatic held my attention longer than most movies. LOL.

Have you posted any info on your process? Such as software you used for the different stages etc. etc? I think a comment on the DeviantArt site indicated you use ToonBoom?