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Author Topic: Animation is easier than you think (and give your art a chance)  (Read 4506 times)

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I made this on a whim that took me about 15 minutes. A 6 frame animation in mspaint + moviemaker + an online gif converter




I will encourage you to do this by telling you how I felt doing this:

- too lazy
- unable to draw anatomy to save my life
- tempted to perfect every detail to make the animation work better but working against it

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If that didn't help, then I'll try to share my argument on the matter of art and animation in general.

Never forget that the human mind always tries to understand things.

Seriously. Whatever you draw, no matter how 'bad' you think it is always provokes a response in someone. It always means something no matter what 'level' you think you are. More than that: It excites people to think and ask about it.

Sometimes you can think that your art is boring or too normal or empty (Or maybe that's only me) but the thing is no matter what you draw, so long as you have a name and a feeling about it there is always life behind your drawing.

Trust me, even if your greatest work is a simple circle, the circle can have more personality than even some holywood films that try and fail to flesh out a character.

Trust me, your simple drawings, your sketches have meaning. Your art is awesome.



If you don't feel so sure about that, post any of your art here and I'll try to animate it to show you what i mean.

 (no matter what level you are. I'll redraw it in my level of art but I will make a simple 6 frame animation that brings your drawing to life.)

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Re: Animation is easier than you think (and give your art a chance)
« Reply #1 on: July 04, 2019, 02:41:10 PM »
in many cases, i see more so the first one, too lazy to even try, i play around with animation every once in a while, nothing presentable but maybe eventually


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Re: Animation is easier than you think (and give your art a chance)
« Reply #2 on: July 07, 2019, 02:26:28 PM »
Yeah. Mental energy is hard to come by some time. I think if I had an iPad or some thing I could always quickly draw on because the app was there I'd be doodling animations, but I don't. And my computer has infinite distractions haha.

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Re: Animation is easier than you think (and give your art a chance)
« Reply #3 on: July 07, 2019, 10:36:06 PM »
i have an ipad but i cant get any styluses to work on it,  :thumbsdown:
but the main thing i hear is "i dont wanna try cause i know i can't do it" how do you know you can't do it if you haven't tried is my question.



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Re: Animation is easier than you think (and give your art a chance)
« Reply #4 on: July 26, 2019, 05:27:06 AM »
The mind can really mess with you on that front. Well, everyone hates failure so that's understandeable, but I'm learning day by day that failing is pretty useful in knowing how to improve on something or knowing when to go a completely different direction. I actually want to seriously try at being a webcomic artist to see how far I go haha.

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Re: Animation is easier than you think (and give your art a chance)
« Reply #5 on: July 26, 2019, 08:54:26 AM »
nice.
And as always I want to get back into animation now haha

yeah it's difficult to attempt something when you don't know how to do it, but often that's when you make the most amount of progress. how paradoxical.
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Re: Animation is easier than you think (and give your art a chance)
« Reply #6 on: October 17, 2019, 05:49:29 PM »
a walking cycle is still a nightmare.

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Re: Animation is easier than you think (and give your art a chance)
« Reply #7 on: October 18, 2019, 06:53:32 AM »
true haha
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