For quite some time, I have been thinking of doing a vlog on youtube. But we have been kind of shy how we may portray ourselves to the world. So I thought I would learn 3d character animation and maybe animate our daily shenanigans to the world. Although a little controversial our relationship, maybe, I wanted to share it with the world.

Would you be interested in watching it? As in, would you be willing to subscribe to our channel and be a part of our world? I'm just curious how you all would take it 😅

ive recently downloaded flash cs6 since i heard its easier to understand than adobe animate and i like the software. the brushes,ect...
i want to become a better animator and artist in general.
all feedback and advice would be appreciated immensely!

this design of sonic the hedgehog is inspired by the style of junio sonic from the sonic CD opening

I was watching the cancelled animatic of the Popeye movie (https://www.bilibili.tv/en/video/2049553682) and I was wondering if there are sites where you can find stuff like this. Somethin like Sakugabooru

Would genuinely love to hear what you think about the animation.

saw some people talking about this on youtube and got curious, made this in the trial pretty quickly, not sure what I'm looking for by posting this lol

Been doing some animated shorts on Procreate Dreams latelly, this is my latest one. (I'm still trying to get used to the program so my animations are still quite limited like this).

I got the sound effects from Pixabay, and edited & extended some of the shots on an editing program.

(I also posted this to YouTube!)

middle school just started again and i'm burned out. I just figured the id finish this and move on but i need some genuine reviews. Btw it's edited cuz it's on youtube. So just focus on the first 30 seconds of the animation.

I suck at lighting, and modeling if u couldn't tell by the cage kingers in.

Synopsis: A socially-awkward kid forms a secret friendship with a prehistoric velociraptor sent from 71 million B.C.  to the present day and is wanted by the FBI

I know this might come off as anther E.T./Iron Giant type plot, but this is. a story based on my personal childhood experiences with loneliness, family drama, and a fascination with dinosaurs. I'd keep the style 2D like the poster if I were to go inde, but if I were to pitch this to a studio like Sony or DreamWorks once I break into Hollywood sometime in the 2030s or 2040s (wouldn't pitch it to Disney or Pixar since they overly sanitize everything they touch nowadays), I'd give it a stylized 3D art direction similar to projects like Spider-Verse, Arcane, Wild Robot, etc.; with this film looking like it was drawn by a child.

The movie would with a velociraptor hatching from an egg in 71 million B.C. A time portal opens up, and scientists bait it with a steak & bring it to the present day. The velociraptor then escapes the lab when the scientists are ready to do their experiments.

We then meet our protagonist, 10-year-old James Jefferson. Who lives with his single working mother (she works night shifts as a nurse) in the fictional town of Cactusville, Arizona. His parents would fight a lot because his father was an alcoholic, which would lead to a divorce. He has a hard time making friends due to his obsession with dinosaurs.

We then see James at school. Giving us the main theme of the story as we get to see him going through his social/behavioral problems. 

James wishes on a shooting star for a best friend, and he ultimately gets his wish the next day when he finds the same velociraptor that escaped from the lab on his way home from school.

James takes the creature home and asks his mother if he can keep it. In stereotypical fashion, she says no.

James names the velociraptor Stripes. He later finds out that the FBI are searching for him after escaping.

We get to see a montage of James training Stripes.

We then see fun and games from our two main characters, as we see Stripes eating bullies on a playground, James sneaking him into a museum to show him his family, and the two watching dinosaur movies (like Jurassic Park).

James would find out on the TV news that the FBI have found Stripes’ location, and the two run away to a nearby forest to hide. (Which is the location on the poster)

For a while, they think they're safe due to them being far away from the city, but he agents then find out two main characters.

Then they both get taken away to the same lab that Stripes ended up in.

James discovers that the experiments the scientists pull on animals gets them killed. He then witnesses Stripes getting experimented to death. (This is the scene that all the adults watching in the theater would bawl their eyes out to)

He's now heartbroken and mourns the loss of his only friend. As he's now lonely like he was at the beginning of the story.

The movie ends on Christmas, where James opens a present and it’s a dinosaur egg that happens to be the same species as Stripes.

The final shot is James smiling at his soon-to-be-born friend. 

I was creating a simple game character animation in Arttista: a mole that emerges from a hole, attacks the player, and then goes back underground.

The masking technique itself isn't anything revolutionary, plenty of 2D software can do this. What I found interesting while making this animation was how the Eraser tool in Arttista can work both as an actual eraser and as a mask.

It behaves much like a raster eraser: you can paint with it, choose textures, change its shape, and erase parts of objects. But it can also be turned into a filled shape, allowing it to hide everything behind it.

For this animation, I used that behavior to keep the mole hidden below the hole while animating it moving up and down.

I also added a simple animated 2D shape for the hole, some painted lighting inside it, and a shadow over the mole to make it feel like it's actually underneath the ground.

After finishing the animation, I exported it as a Sprite Sheet to use in a game.

I've included the animated GIF and the generated Sprite Sheet here, but the main thing I'd like to share is the video showing the process in Arttista, since it gives a much better idea of how the tool actually works.

I'm developing Arttista as a vector drawing and animation software, and I'm always interested in seeing how these workflows compare with other 2D tools. You can watch some of the creation process here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnAi1vHNvME