To be an independent animator, you don’t have one job to do, you’ve got to be the whole dang crew! You’ve got to be the actors, the cameramen, the director, the lighting department, makeup, set designer, storyboarder, the marketing department, basically everything aside from the boom mic guy ... unless you’re doing a gag that involves a boom mic in which case you would also be the boom mic guy.
I would agree with you, except for the fact that one of the first things anyone outside animation says when I tell them I'm an animator is "wow that must take a lot of patience"
I'm really glad you mentioned cinematography because it's such a shame when people don't think about it. Marketing is definitely something I still need to work more on myself. For anyone wanting to look more into acting when it comes to animation I recommend Ed Hooks' book Acting for Animation. Some of the stuff he says regarding women specifically is a bit too old-fashioned for me but the book helped me with acting through my animation and it really opened my eyes to being able to analyse other animators' acting performance.
I was so scared to join animation earlier but since I m watching your videos I m getting confident that I can do this, thank you. You really changed the flow of my carrier
These are really good insights and resources! I love how you thought of your film as a personality in order to design a fitting title and poster for it :D
I love you man don't ever stop love your animated video and you are a very awesome individual who we need to be more like a person who helps instructs, motivates, shares, articulates and inspires not only through art bit life in general I hope you live long and well! Plus, your voice is so cool and soothing! Teach me your ways!
Well, actually in college graphic design classes they actually recomend that you make your designs like everyone else's, lest you depart into coocooville or last years design trends. And in the end, I've seen a movie poster/cover very much like this one. "Windwalker" is an example, thought it's a bit more of a plot callage... But they're both plot collages just to different degrees. (BTW, you should watch Windwalker. It's about a badass old man Native American, left in the wilderness to die because it's believed he's too old to survive on his own, and therefore is a detriment to the tribe.) Cool, you mentioned "How To Win Friends and Influence People". Dale Carnegie's organization updated the book, actually: "How To Win Friends And Influence People in a Digital Age"
Orphanlast interesting point you make about being advised to make your designs like everyone elses. Very true that there are incentives for following trends. But i think there are even bigger potential rewards for going against the grain for those who are brave enough to do it. In this poster design i didn't stand out too much, i wanted to use traditional principles. But i am starting to question things - and hopefully that questioning will lead to some refreshing contributions to the art world
You are such an incredible animator your knowledge of what makes a good animation amazes me. I've still got so much to learn but I feel like you've really helped me grow and develope, so thank you ^_^ Also how do you not have more recognition for what you do, your work honestly blows me away. I think you should have at least a million subs. Once again thank you and keep up the good work ^o^
I think you may already done a video on this, but how do you deal with long term projects so that you don't drop them before you finish or how do you make a project that isn't working into a good one if you see that there are many flaws in it. great video, thanks for the advices they are really helpful and can make an animation really work better.👌
LOW INCOME people, DISTRACTABLE people: I finally found a way to make progress. I substitute teach for high school, which gives me: student models available as references, staying current with youth, and being forced to sit in a room with no choice but to work on your freelance work. Get paid for your time twice. I'm still low-income but very happy! if I have a hard commission deadline, I can take any day(s) off with no issues at all.
most of the animators i see on youtube that arent big want to be sakuga animators and they think sakuga means quick and flashy so they forget the point of fights and stuff as well as sakuga being very professional and smooth animation
Hey howard.. i see you've switched over to toon-boom ... which would you recommend to a beginner animator .. toon boom or flash/adobe animate?.. Great video by the way
It is actually TVPaint! I would recommend learning on your desired software straight away. So if you see yourself working in the TV industry for companies like Nickelodeon or Cartoon Network, Toonboom is a good choice - learn it asap. If you are going down more of a painterly/ fine art route and want your work to be a throwback to traditional animation techniques, TVPaint is awesome. If you want to make interactive pieces for the internet then flash is a good choice. If you really just need something that is extremely intuitive and simple to get you started without frustrating you then adobe flash has the simplest interface and is the easiest to pick up, but tbh TVPaint isn't far behind in terms of UI. ToonBoom has the steepest learning curve by far.
Mack Joseph you can work it out: 24 frames per second On twos and threes mostly so that's an average of about 9 fps Two minutes is 120 seconds Multiply them to get 1080 Then you will probably have certain shots like the establishing shot which won't have any redrawing so knock about 100 frames off to give you 980 frames. Then add back on about 100 drawings for pre production (those are the hardest drawings) to get you back to 1080 as a very rough average
You can take that further: Find out what your deadline is. Work out how many days until your deadline then take the total number of frames (1080) and divide it by the number of days. Now you have a daily average of drawings that you need to meet each day. But make sure to take into account extra tasks such as post production colouring , shadow pass, sound and foley, voice overs, contingency time etc. ... i should make a video on this!
Ok that would be better for me since I have a lot going on and yea if you make a vid on it that would be helpful... because I’m doing my animation and I feel like It could be a better way to tackle it without feeling like I have a lot in one day
I personally love windows 7, but use whatever you are most comfortable with And once you get duel monitors you will never want to go back to a single monitor Additional RAM and a high functioning graphics card are helpful
used it in combination with a large round standard soft brush - I think I had it on the multiply blending mode as well when you select an area you can only paint within it so it is quite a useful method
search for blur in the effects panel of adobe after effects. Add one of the blurs to your layers and in the timeline you can control how much blur each layer has at different times. There are also other blurs like motion blurs and radial blurs which can come in handy for other effects. Plugins like red giant offer even more blurs
Aghast Font fading can be done by making the object into a movie clip or graphics symbol and setting it to alpha and adjusting the slider. Blur can be an effect applied to movie clip symbols. I used after effects mostly for that kind of thing
xharass amb animation academy, jeca martinez has some nice ones and draw with jazza used to make some animation tutorials. He doesn't make them any more but if you look back in his video history he has some decent flash tutorials
To be an independent animator, you don’t have one job to do, you’ve got to be the whole dang crew! You’ve got to be the actors, the cameramen, the director, the lighting department, makeup, set designer, storyboarder, the marketing department, basically everything aside from the boom mic guy ... unless you’re doing a gag that involves a boom mic in which case you would also be the boom mic guy.
BayLaugh Animations i agree! It is a lot to think about but if we become absorbed in the animation process somehow it all comes together in the end!
The most overlooked skills that animators have ignored is patience, grammar of the shot and telling a story.
I would agree with you, except for the fact that one of the first things anyone outside animation says when I tell them I'm an animator is "wow that must take a lot of patience"
I'm really glad you mentioned cinematography because it's such a shame when people don't think about it. Marketing is definitely something I still need to work more on myself.
For anyone wanting to look more into acting when it comes to animation I recommend Ed Hooks' book Acting for Animation. Some of the stuff he says regarding women specifically is a bit too old-fashioned for me but the book helped me with acting through my animation and it really opened my eyes to being able to analyse other animators' acting performance.
Good recommendation!
So much overthinking, but I can't complain with the results! Looks great! Love watching your stuff, it gets me super motivated.
I overthink so you guys don't have to :)
@@HowardWimshurst Mmmm . . . yes :D
I was so scared to join animation earlier but since I m watching your videos I m getting confident that I can do this, thank you. You really changed the flow of my carrier
You can do it!
"The guys is a bit crazy" 4:47
Lmfao.
4:43*
These are really good insights and resources! I love how you thought of your film as a personality in order to design a fitting title and poster for it :D
Jeca Martinez Art thanks Jeca!
Really good list of things I will definitely consider, especially cinematography and the music vocabulary. Very helpful tips as usual! Thanks!
I love you man don't ever stop love your animated video and you are a very awesome individual who we need to be more like a person who helps instructs, motivates, shares, articulates and inspires not only through art bit life in general I hope you live long and well! Plus, your voice is so cool and soothing! Teach me your ways!
Always good to see an upload from you bro.
Well, actually in college graphic design classes they actually recomend that you make your designs like everyone else's, lest you depart into coocooville or last years design trends.
And in the end, I've seen a movie poster/cover very much like this one. "Windwalker" is an example, thought it's a bit more of a plot callage... But they're both plot collages just to different degrees. (BTW, you should watch Windwalker. It's about a badass old man Native American, left in the wilderness to die because it's believed he's too old to survive on his own, and therefore is a detriment to the tribe.)
Cool, you mentioned "How To Win Friends and Influence People". Dale Carnegie's organization updated the book, actually: "How To Win Friends And Influence People in a Digital Age"
That type of movie posters are over used tbh.
Orphanlast interesting point you make about being advised to make your designs like everyone elses. Very true that there are incentives for following trends. But i think there are even bigger potential rewards for going against the grain for those who are brave enough to do it. In this poster design i didn't stand out too much, i wanted to use traditional principles. But i am starting to question things - and hopefully that questioning will lead to some refreshing contributions to the art world
Orphanlast also i didn't know that Dale Carnegy updated his book! I'll check that out thanks for letting me know
You are such an incredible animator your knowledge of what makes a good animation amazes me. I've still got so much to learn but I feel like you've really helped me grow and develope, so thank you ^_^ Also how do you not have more recognition for what you do, your work honestly blows me away. I think you should have at least a million subs. Once again thank you and keep up the good work ^o^
I was thinking of watching some of your previous videos then what do you know? A new video popped up! Awesome!
Johanna Anuar just in time :)
I think you may already done a video on this, but how do you deal with long term projects so that you don't drop them before you finish or how do you make a project that isn't working into a good one if you see that there are many flaws in it. great video, thanks for the advices they are really helpful and can make an animation really work better.👌
Thanks for watching! I made a video about it, i think it is called "when to abandon an animation project"
Howard Wimshurst ok, thank you.
LOW INCOME people, DISTRACTABLE people: I finally found a way to make progress. I substitute teach for high school, which gives me: student models available as references, staying current with youth, and being forced to sit in a room with no choice but to work on your freelance work. Get paid for your time twice. I'm still low-income but very happy! if I have a hard commission deadline, I can take any day(s) off with no issues at all.
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I want to see the hunter in motion with his great bow. Looking good keep it up
Going to note these points
nice one!
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damn, that's some nice art you got there
Another brilliant video bro :) - Jay
cheers!
Very nice
I love you
thank you
thanx brother
most of the animators i see on youtube that arent big want to be sakuga animators and they think sakuga means quick and flashy so they forget the point of fights and stuff as well as sakuga being very professional and smooth animation
cool tips nice job
Hey howard.. i see you've switched over to toon-boom ... which would you recommend to a beginner animator .. toon boom or flash/adobe animate?.. Great video by the way
It is actually TVPaint! I would recommend learning on your desired software straight away. So if you see yourself working in the TV industry for companies like Nickelodeon or Cartoon Network, Toonboom is a good choice - learn it asap. If you are going down more of a painterly/ fine art route and want your work to be a throwback to traditional animation techniques, TVPaint is awesome. If you want to make interactive pieces for the internet then flash is a good choice.
If you really just need something that is extremely intuitive and simple to get you started without frustrating you then adobe flash has the simplest interface and is the easiest to pick up, but tbh TVPaint isn't far behind in terms of UI. ToonBoom has the steepest learning curve by far.
You r so good
how exactly did u do the focus shift?
cool film
Awesome video! This is a dumb question, but is there a way we can watch encounter? I haven’t been able to find it anywhere.
Clay Ballard it will be coming out on the channel soon!
nice vid
A question, how many frames shall we use for a youtube video? For a fight scene, and normal slow mo.
Hey I have a question how much drawing would you do for let’s say a 2 min video ?
Mack Joseph you can work it out:
24 frames per second
On twos and threes mostly so that's an average of about 9 fps
Two minutes is 120 seconds
Multiply them to get 1080
Then you will probably have certain shots like the establishing shot which won't have any redrawing so knock about 100 frames off to give you 980 frames. Then add back on about 100 drawings for pre production (those are the hardest drawings) to get you back to 1080 as a very rough average
You can take that further:
Find out what your deadline is. Work out how many days until your deadline then take the total number of frames (1080) and divide it by the number of days. Now you have a daily average of drawings that you need to meet each day. But make sure to take into account extra tasks such as post production colouring , shadow pass, sound and foley, voice overs, contingency time etc.
... i should make a video on this!
Ok that would be better for me since I have a lot going on and yea if you make a vid on it that would be helpful... because I’m doing my animation and I feel like It could be a better way to tackle it without feeling like I have a lot in one day
Howard Wimshurst and do you have a pre production in n your channel ? So I can watch it
Are you gonna upload "Encounter" to TH-cam when it's done?
yes!
What is the best desktop setup for animating
I personally love windows 7, but use whatever you are most comfortable with
And once you get duel monitors you will never want to go back to a single monitor
Additional RAM and a high functioning graphics card are helpful
Thanks
How did you do that at 1:44? Shading with the rope tool
used it in combination with a large round standard soft brush - I think I had it on the multiply blending mode as well
when you select an area you can only paint within it so it is quite a useful method
Howard Wimshurst thank you so much!
How did you make the blur transition?
search for blur in the effects panel of adobe after effects. Add one of the blurs to your layers and in the timeline you can control how much blur each layer has at different times. There are also other blurs like motion blurs and radial blurs which can come in handy for other effects. Plugins like red giant offer even more blurs
Howard Wimshurst ok thanks
what animating software do you use
How do you create a fade/blur camera effect with Adobe animate? I have been in the verge of murdering since they don't have the option?
Aghast Font fading can be done by making the object into a movie clip or graphics symbol and setting it to alpha and adjusting the slider. Blur can be an effect applied to movie clip symbols. I used after effects mostly for that kind of thing
Damn, I spend ages just trying to find the effect the original animator used to blur fore/mid ground in their animation.
10:52 ???😮
Someone knows what software is he using?
tvpaint
Can someone recomment some other channels about animation please? i can't find any
xharass amb animation academy, jeca martinez has some nice ones and draw with jazza used to make some animation tutorials. He doesn't make them any more but if you look back in his video history he has some decent flash tutorials
thanks, amb looks nice
Alen Becker tutorials
hey what software do you use ?
No action without story.
1:53 Are you really cutting videos with Flash??
Is that flash?
nah its TV paint
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Crazy is good lol, don't be the sheep :) . Good job btw .
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7:58
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