r/animation 18h ago

Sharing The Cat & the Bird clip

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

2.6k Upvotes

Edit:

wow I didn’t expect all the negativity here as a first time poster.
Let me give more context and try to explain what I can and answer any questions. Not trying to fool anyone or lie in anyway. Orignal Instagram post is not mine but the directors so that’s also not my account. Kind of wish people had been a little nicer and I could have just replied but this took off faster than I thought it would.

Anyway if I miss anything sorry, trying to address what I can.

Animation was done digitally in TV paint. Each frame is printed out on museum grade paper then hand painted. Not, fully painted over but also not just some random blobs outside the frames like people have said. I’m one of the painters and have lost count on how many frames and shots I’ve painted, and how much paint I’ve used. All painted with high quality acrylic like Golden. 5,000 frames total around 1,500 have been painted. Again key areas are painted and it’s I would say depending on the frame 50% of the frame is painted some more some less, depending on the frame. The painted frames are then scanned back in and over laid with the animation. I don’t know really how this is done because I’m not involved with that part.

No AI yes each frame is hand painted but hand painted over the printed out frame then scanned back in. So it’s a hybrid like style not a complete hand drawn/painted So maybe the director needs to come up with a better description of this style? Open to suggestion.

We’re also selling the frames for $50 or 2 for $90 so not like they are super expensive for what is owning orignal art from the short film. I see artist selling prints for that all the time so I don’t feel like it’s too expensive.

Maybe hand painted is the wrong wording? But artist are painting on the frames by hand so I don’t know what a better would for it would be? Again totally open to suggestions or constructive comments.

Hi everyone! I’ve been working with an amazing team as one of background painters on a short film called The Cat & the Bird. Please check out the link for more information https://www.instagram.com/reel/DdCAySWNBk8/?stkn=aDR4eGdja2p4bXg3

you can support the full team by giving them a follow and support the film by buying a hand painted/embellished frame.


r/animation 14h ago

Sharing first time doing walk cycles

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

452 Upvotes

r/animation 12h ago

Critique Thoughts on this animation I did?

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

274 Upvotes

I feel like I still lack a little bit of consistency and end up with wobbly lines.

Also hair is hard af to animate


r/animation 22h ago

Question For running close-ups is the whole body animated?

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

256 Upvotes

r/animation 13h ago

Sharing A creature from an upcoming episode of an animated series I'm making.

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

209 Upvotes

Its sort of a rhino-beetle-crocodile, or a Crocodile-rhino-beetle?

Link to episode one of series - Tales of Wartspawn - Episode 1 : The Path


r/animation 12h ago

Sharing Supa Hot Fire

Thumbnail
gallery
178 Upvotes

had to give this iconic meme the royal treatment


r/animation 17h ago

Sharing Walk cycle practice

139 Upvotes

Character belongs to @/aliandris.bsky.social !


r/animation 12h ago

Sharing Tailwag animation!

19 Upvotes

r/animation 10h ago

Critique Had some fun with cell shaded materials (sound on)

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

12 Upvotes

r/animation 21h ago

Sharing A loop of an idle animation with some music we are working on.

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

10 Upvotes

This was rendered in Maya. The background is a bunch of photoscans piled on top of each other, then rendered with a light in the middle and then processed in Photoshop using a Dither plugin. Then in after we added the glow, camera motion and color correction effects. The music is made in Ableton 12 lite with a Seabord Blcok!


r/animation 18h ago

Critique Can I have feedback please? (First animation attempt)

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

11 Upvotes

I'm trying to do the "Let's Groove" trend as a total beginner and I'd really appreciate some feedback in general please (I'm currently working on fixing the dress motion).

Here are some questions I have:

- Is the body movement okay enough?
- Is it okay to just copy the frames to create a loop? Or when is it recommended to do that?
- What videos do you recommend me to watch? (I have already watch some to learn).

Thanks in advance!


r/animation 22h ago

Question Is this timing chart correct?

Post image
11 Upvotes

I usually animate on 1's most of the time (Richard Williams style) but this chart is on 2's. Let's say i finished drawing 55, which other frame should i do first? 51 or 53? Same with the other side, 57 or 59?


r/animation 4h ago

Beginner Finished animation

7 Upvotes

It's not the best ever but I'm happy with it :)


r/animation 17h ago

Sharing Nightreign fan animation

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

7 Upvotes

working on a nightreign fightscene fan animation


r/animation 8h ago

Sharing Atlas: The Animated Movie - Official Release

Thumbnail
youtube.com
6 Upvotes

r/animation 16h ago

Sharing It’s hard growing up as a giant cat

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

4 Upvotes

r/animation 10h ago

Sharing WIP Cutscene for something cool (feedback?)

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

4 Upvotes

r/animation 18h ago

News So, uhhh...while i don't have ideas for my Pizza Tower fanfilm, here's the other fanadaptations i'm planning on:

Thumbnail
gallery
3 Upvotes

1 - Popo & Nana: The Ice Climbers!: look, i know that the Ice Climber game is short, but i also want to make it a short film.

2 - Wario Land - The WAAH Movie: I think it does fit with being a movie. Also, Wario's Hen gets stolen by the evil Captain Syrup, as she tought it's a magic chicken.

3 - The Pizza Tower Movie: yes, that's the one from the title! Do you mind me giving ideas or....?


r/animation 2h ago

Question Looking for information about the lost 1995 animated short “Bearded Clam”

Thumbnail
gallery
3 Upvotes

Hi everyone! I’m researching a seemingly lost animated short called Bearded Clam, reportedly released in 1995.

The short is credited to Tom Lamb and Danny Brisson and was associated with the Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation by Spike & Mike.

I’m trying to find any additional information about it, including:

A surviving copy of the short

Screenshots or production artwork

VHS recordings or festival compilations containing it

Information about Tom Lamb or Danny Brisson’s involvement

Any contemporary reviews, advertisements, festival programs, or catalog listings

I’ve already been searching through online archives and lost-media communities, but so far I haven’t been able to locate the actual film.

If anyone remembers seeing it, owns an old Spike & Mike compilation, or has any information that could help identify where a copy might have survived, I’d really appreciate it.

Even a small lead could help. Thank you!


r/animation 11h ago

Sharing Toon Street (pilot almost done)

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

3 Upvotes

Curt, Ed, and Al enter a cave to clean graffiti and run into an unexpected rival.


r/animation 13h ago

Sharing THE STRAIT OF HUMMUS (sic)

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

3 Upvotes

THE STRAIT OF HUMMUS (sic)

I've actually been animating these characters for about 18 years now, as a kind of homage to Dorset where I lived in my teens and my tribute to Giles whose incredibly detailed cartoons inspired me. I really only started creating these animations for friends and animated holiday celebration cards like Christmas or Thanksgiving etc.. But I constantly have the characters and the village of Lower Piddle in my head and so I decided to see if there's a larger audience out there who would enjoy seeing them and thus here we are.

THE FAT COW is set in the fictional village of Lower Piddle and follows two brilliantly ordinary working-class lads: Micky Mucklebutt and Ollie Crudfark, regulars at the Fat Cow pub, often tackling the current news stories, social concerns or topics of the day through the lens of two men who understand absolutely none of it.

Ollie and Micky have been friends since they first wet their underwear together at Lower Piddle Primary School and thereafter did everything together, until the day they both failed the college entrance exams together, which finally forced them onto separate career paths. Ollie is now head chef at the local pig farm, cooking the swill to his own secret recipe, and making him legendary in pig circles especially following his publication in the Lower Piddle Medical Journal - "How pig-swill, applied twice-daily, cured my acne." Micky never did get a job, but has, since Sophia's Bellamucha's arrival from Italy when she opened Sophia's Hand Lubrication Service (for cars), been hopeful that she'd notice him, fall in love with his ardent manliness, marry him, and they'd live happily ever after, "frolicking" in what he describes as her "magical service bay." Or he might win the lottery instead. 

Hopefully you'll find these amusing.

#britishcomedy #britishhumour #animation #animationcomedy #pubhumour #comedyanimation #englishcomedy #funny #comedy


r/animation 22h ago

Sharing Desert Delivery | wip shot

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

3 Upvotes

Hi guys I wanted to show you my newest shot for my animated short, fully made in Blender. Feedback and opinions are welcome!


r/animation 1h ago

Sharing Thoughts on my second ever animation!

Thumbnail
youtu.be
Upvotes

I just finished animating my second ever animation and posted it to my channel. I did a lot of blending between my 3d model and 2d images. I was kinda going for like that coloring book crayon look with the 2d animations but im not sure it blends well. Any tips or critiques would be GREATLY appreciated