You should really make a tutorial
Did some Blockhead. Made a lil' Mastermind. Co-created Madness: Project Nexus. I love you so much!
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This time last year I really wanted to make one, but who has the time, y'know? :( I have a topic on the forum of my currently-down website where I've been collecting a list of everything anyone feels would make for a good Tutorial subject. I might just get to it at some point though.
Aw<a href="http://www.">www.</a>. I really want to see this ani-comic of yours! And the racist vampires thing sounds great! Too bad your site's down... :(
Don't worry, check back soon. It's all still there, just gotta get this hosting thing sorted out :D
Intersting, do you space the animations in blockhead like that aswell?
You must have a good sense of your timing and spacing, got any tips because I'm working on a flash for school and I can't afford to make too many mistakes to learn from.
I must not be down with the jargon - what do you mean by spacing? I always essentially storyboard the cartoon around the audio first, which helps the timing and makes sure that I'm not redrawing artwork when recycling something from somewhere else in the cartoon might save me time.
Good to know, I've also done my storyboard using the the audio.
What I meant was on layer A, where you've drawn a frame, but used it for two frames, I think it's my fault in the explanation because I misused the word spacing.
I was just wondering whether you used this method to animate blockhead aswell because blockhead is just so incredibly smooth, but after my comment I looked at your demo and I think your animating this differently to Blockhead?
Oh I see, well I do that when it makes more sense to animate only parts of the body in a different layer than to redraw the entire body of a character. Big time saver, I think.
I love being a mamber of your site. I saw the comic last week.
I feel like such an asshole now.
Also, DID YOU SAY MASTERMIND 2?? OH LAWD.
Also also, are you really making a mastermind game? Ha ha, looks like I ruined that too.
Oh well, good luck with RV
I've got a Mastermind game planned out, yeah :D Conceptually I think it's gonna rock the house.
Yaaaay! Site's up again!
Like many of the other people who have stated this for the past few months, I also can't wait to see RV and Mastermind 2. So is Mastermind gonna have some more tit jokes?.....
Probably not, but the Mastermind is no less immature than last time.
Sorry for writing another comment, but what settings do you use on your brush tool?
2nd smallest at 200% zoom usually, or 4th smallest at 400% zoom for detail work.
Ah i havent seen that guy before. I thought there would only be two of them. More competitors? Looks like hes about to pound her face xP
Nat and Percy are secondary protagonists - important to the general goings-on of the Racist Vampires world, although the story itself follows JJ and Ryder, the true protagonists. They would be the four most frequent characters though.
Swain said,"I've got a Mastermind game planned out, yeah :D Conceptually I think it's gonna rock the house."
:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
Lovin' your work man! Everything frame by frame? I'm sure you get this alot but what smoothing do you set the pen tool to?
Lookin' forward to it, your stuff's really kicked into gear all last year. The first thing I saw from you was Time Squad (which was sweet), now I'm all in! Ever gonna come back to some animated action again?
Hey, man, love the blockhead series, and I told all of my friends about it in school, and now your famous in my school, but there is one thig ive been wondering....
Your art is so damn good, do you use a "Computer sketch pad"? I was gonna get one, but I dont know if thats what I use, are you a fucking great drawer, ar a genius with Flash? Please let me know.
Thanks man- Zack S.
TomFulp
I gotta see this ani-comic thing! Shame about the site being down, but it shows more and more people are coming there, at least!
The-Swain
The holidays were too distracting to keep up any real kind of animating schedule, so I gave it the ol' "what the hell, why not", and took a stab at this Ani-comic thing. I'm gonna play with pseudo-animation a bit and find ways of making the next Ani-comic more lively without breaking the rules, as it were.
Until the site's back up, maybe you can have Bob pantomime it for you. I'm sure that'll be a kick :D