RickyDbZ AF 2008 summer challenge flour sack olympics

[RickyDbZ]

well .. i decided to kind of enter in the competition :) for start here is the begining of my charachter doh' i think i will change his eyes and certainly a funnyer mouth cause its not great at all :)

http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/2710/caracterfrontac5.png i choosed Javelin Throw :) ...

I choosed HIgh jump and billy (silly name :))i know..) billy will be representing uhm Romania will be fine :)

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ok well in the end it was totaly diffrent i choosed
High Jump .
His name is Marean Fainescu ( "escu" = the ussualy romanian subfix. i mean all the family names of romanian people are finished with escu XD) almoust.. i mean many of them ... and Faina = Flower in romania XD .. nevermind
his story is :
In a day when he was hanging out with friends he used a curtain to fly over a tree like the olympics do someone from the romanian olympic theme saw him and thought that he made to jump that up with no help , so he got in the team for 2008 olympics, with his curtain xD since he realized he dosent have any chance with his curtain he choosed to try use technology to achieve his goal :)
here it is al finished :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0HOKdIBF2w

[kdog]

Good luck with the challenge, Ricky.

Here is a link I think you should read. http://karmatoons.com/drawing/1a.htm

Go through the pages and DO the exercises. You have the passion to do this & that is good, but I want to encourage you to draw more solid drawings that look like real 3D things. The exercises I posted show you how to do that just by using basic shapes like spheres & boxes, then you can practice making those shapes bend & twist. As you get comfortable with that, you can put them together (sphere & box) and make a flour sack, and then you can bend & twist that!

Remember, this challenge is here so we can all improve, and the point of the flour sack exercise is to get comfortable with some of the most important and fundamental aspects of animation - timing, spacing, squash & stretch etc. Keep working at it & you'll be surprised how much you improve over the course of this challenge.

Good luck to you.

[RickyDbZ]

http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/8213/angledfinalpf8.gif

http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/4843/sidefinaljb6.gif

http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/6430/frontdoneid0.gif

...btw thx again :) ill try to work on that :) and about the pencil part i did worked about 1 week in pencil on simple ainmations :) and thx again

[RickyDbZ]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CumPbH8LUg

[RickyDbZ]

Another one , after i finished the trailer for my new show i wanted to make some exercises to understand how its better for the sack to move :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrM8XhXkoBo

[RickyDbZ]

another shoot :P

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2f0oWBv5iTI

[1uc]

I don't want to be rude, but maybe if you'd work more on quality instead of quantity it might just be more pleasant to watch. Animation just takes time, that's why challenge is 2 months long. Anyway, I hope I encouraged you to work more slowly and precise.:o take care

[RickyDbZ]

sure i dont :) its just that i wanted to post this part here to even if its just practicing i just wanted to soo how things should move and practicing :) and thx for the advice ill soon post one with a backround more loogenr and ill search for some sounds like crowds or something

[Squash-n-Stretch]

I don't want to be rude, but maybe if you'd work more on quality instead of quantity it might just be more pleasant to watch. Animation just takes time, that's why challenge is 2 months long. Anyway, I hope I encouraged you to work more slowly and precise.:o take care

Well, I think you should be more constructive to be honest. You should highlight the particular elements you feel need work and reccomend to him how he could go about fixing it.

[RickyDbZ]

uhm ... whatever here's the 4'th more qualitty but, didnt morphed really nice , promise next one much more loonger no more morph mistakes and of course ill drop some effects and sound :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1yWPDJqvSk

[RickyDbZ]

xD my entry is changing very often XD! but heres the final entry im sure of this i mean ... xD its much more better then the other ones :)
so here it is :
His name is Marean Fainescu ( "escu" = the ussualy romanian subfix. i mean all the family names of romanian people are finished with escu XD:)) almoust.. i mean many of them ... and Faina = Flower in romania XD .. nevermind so ehre it is the picture :)
his story is :
In a day when he was hanging out with friends he used a curtain to fly over a tree like the olympics do someone from the romanian olympic theme saw him and thought that he made to jump that up with no help , so he got in the team for 2008 olympics, with his curtain xD ... the image i provided now its smudged with a filler effect but i have the clean one to import from photoshop ( the software i use to create it to .. toon boom studio 4 .. where i will make soon an animation of it :) .... so here i go !

http://img113.imageshack.us/img113/3567/mareanfainescuthemasterix8.gif

[RickyDbZ]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooutmBnPNF0

see this.. i got on working .. and made some cut out charachters in studio 4 ... now just to make some time to animate... cause right now im makin my website to :) ill finish the movie and... post it on the same day ill launch my site:) .. so until now see this trailer i was so bored.. that i made.. not much of a animation but whatever i used alot of diffrent software... and worked about 20 hours at it :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooutmBnPNF0

[RickyDbZ]

ok well in the end it was totaly diffrent i choosed
High Jump .
His name is Marean Fainescu ( "escu" = the ussualy romanian subfix. i mean all the family names of romanian people are finished with escu XD) almoust.. i mean many of them ... and Faina = Flower in romania XD .. nevermind
his story is :
In a day when he was hanging out with friends he used a curtain to fly over a tree like the olympics do someone from the romanian olympic theme saw him and thought that he made to jump that up with no help , so he got in the team for 2008 olympics, with his curtain xD since he realized he dosent have any chance with his curtain he choosed to try use technology to achieve his goal :)
here it is al finished :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0HOKdIBF2w

[RickyDbZ]

xD im the only poster ... from .. 8 posts' ahead?XD? atleast someone check my final work...

[Nyachu]

Wow, you update often. ^^ That's good though, that way it's easier to see the character evolution and project progress.

Your final character design is very cute-looking and has appeal, but lacks basic structure (at least to my eyes), which is usually underlying in the final character design. It's true sometimes that what you can't discern in the sketches, you can make up for in the animation, but without that basic understanding of the "skeleton" and how the character moves, it also can make the animation process a bit tougher. I only know this because I have that same tendency to just do something real quick and make up for it later. Just a bad habit of mine. :o

Your final animation itself is colorful and similar in style and sound to a video game (that's what it reminded me of, anyway). That's a unique style, and I don't think you should need to sacrifice that, but the character movement is a bit jerky instead of fluid. That's not necessarily a bad thing; new styles are emerging all the time in animation, however, what's happening is a bit unclear to me. Maybe if you focused more on the <b>movement</b> of the character relating to how your character acts and reacts, and how you can play emotion into that, then you'd have a character to which people can better relate. Not that you have to necessarily re-do your entire animation. These are just my thoughts and ideas for improvement. :D

Sorry for such a long post, and I hoped I helped at least a little bit. :)

[RickyDbZ]

yeah you kind of a did , in the end i realized , i forgot its purpose and i made it like comercial , just to be... not for the animation , it shouldve includde diffrent types of movement and all that stuff but whatever in the end it sucked i never hoped to anything else But the last place:).... well thx for ure comment