The Animation Thread 2 - Claymation, Lego, 3D and 2D animation. Not for Pivot.

[Xolerate²]

ok whatever, I'm just gonna post it

I guess I should've recolored it to have accurate, not-sunset colors. but I didn't :I

pretty

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[Jay the Cartoonist]

I made a Lego Movie a couple years ago :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9w0R2QyffTI

:(((

[Dre5567]

bump

[otto-san]

i have created masterpise

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7H8bfk4GBU

created for some bollocks

the story:

In Jigville, Alabama, long ago, before the existence of Coca-Cola or digital clocks, a terrible crime took place that would change the way we looked at ribberies forever onward. It was such a horrible, nasty crime that none have ever written or spoken of it since the news the following day. It was so ridiculously revolting that no one could possibly fathom it without having heard it beforehand, as the human mind is incapable of conceiving such brutal acts. No, this was no ordinary ribbery. It was the ribbery to top all ribberies before and all ribberies to come.
From bed he went straight to his car sitting on an empty hill, sliding on the ice that had formed over the grass overnight. He drove through some intersections and eventually parked in a lot near to a moneybank. He walked up the steps to the doors and kicked them open with his foot, his shotgun at the ready. All of the people inside the moneybank were commanded onto the floor. The ribbery of Rusty Shackleford had begun.
Rusty confidently marched to the teller’s window and demanded all the money. The teller told the ribber that he doesn’t know how to open the vault, and that he had no money available to give. While Rusty was angrily yelling about some random garbage, the teller cleverly pressed a button located underneath a desk-like board thing jutting from under the window. The moneybank’s owner told all of his employees to never ever never press this button or they would die, and the teller wanted out. But it was all foolery! The button did no such convenient thing! No, the button served the opposite purpose: to call the local policemuns! Yes, the policemuns were now on their way!
Hearing the sirens, Rusty was enraged. As he saw the cars flood the street in front of the moneybank, he furiously stomped inside and began forcing people to break their pre-digital clock cellphones. The teller ran up to the angry ribber to try and convince him to stop this madness, but the ribber would not have it. He aimed his shotgun and squeezed the trigger. The bankguy was dead on the floor.
After he heard the gunshot, one policemun knew what they were dealing with. He knew at that moment that this was the greatest ribbery that had ever occurred and ever will occur. So he conjured up all the courage necessary to stop this monstrosity. Over the pre-Coca-Cola megaphone, he talked to Rusty. He told him that he would be caught if he got away, and that he would suffer more for it. He told him that everything would be better for everyone if he complied with the policemuns. But the ribber would not have it.
Knowing that he was the only one willing and able to act, the negotiator dropped the megaphone and began stepping toward Rusty, and Rusty stepping back into the moneybank. They both were inside, talking next to the late bankguy’s headless corpse, and the policemun finally convinced the ribber to come with him.
What a glorious day it was for everyone in Jigville! To hear of such evil deeds coming about and being effectively dealt with by the strong stuff of human courage! Courage alone stopped the worst ribbery that had ever happened, and ever will happen. If not for courage, many more would have surely died. Bankguy unfortunately got GG’d in this horrendous event, and will be missed, but thankfully he alone populates the list of casualties during the crime. Without courage, the list would have expanded into infinity, literally consuming all of humanity in a single gulp, without even chewing. Without courage, all the money would have gone. The negotiator averted these crises by equipping himself with courage, courage which could slay this vile crime. Courage which allowed him to slay it with his hands, and vomit nonsensical blather with his mouth. This is humanity.

rip in pease bankguy

i'm very sorry about all this i really am

[Dre5567]

bmppmm

[Dre5567]

sry 4 cross post but

[otto-san]

i like the sticky tack that materialised underneath the paper

is p funny

[Dre5567]

i like the sticky tack that materialised underneath the paper

is p funny

clay*

[takato14]

I made some lego stop-motions years ago and a couple of stickfights in Flipnote Studio but other than that I've never had the patience for animation. I have a basic understanding of physics and action/reaction and if I could stay focused and plan everything out I'm sure I could make something great, but I just get so damn bored with it after a while and photoshop fights me every step of the way

I'd like to try a full-fledged animation program that's streamlined enough to do frame-by-frame efficiently and without any hiccups, but flash is way too expensive and I've never even tried it so I'm not about to buy something I'm not sure I can use.

Any suggestions?

[takato14]

whee, slow topics

[takato14]

sry 4 cross post but

you should turn off autofocus on your camera

otherwise good

[Admiral Obvious]

This being the animation thread, I'll post a couple of free programs for us poor people. They're both in development though.

Pencil2D: Standard frame-by-frame animation. I just found this and so don't have experience with this. It seems good for both gifs and longer videos if you have the patience.

Synfig: Biggest "selling point" (if you can call a feature of freeware a selling point) is that it removes the tweening process in most other animation programs.

[BluetoothBoy]

This being the animation thread, I'll post a couple of free programs for us poor people. They're both in development though.

Pencil2D: Standard frame-by-frame animation. I just found this and so don't have experience with this. It seems good for both gifs and longer videos if you have the patience.

Synfig: Biggest "selling point" (if you can call a feature of freeware a selling point) is that it removes the tweening process in most other animation programs.

Wow, neat! Even though I have Flash, I might try out Synfig. I've been told by my brother that Pencil2D has poor vector support, though.

[Dre5567]

you should turn off autofocus on your camera

otherwise good

bmp
also, i never had it on - i was trying to get it to focus on other things

[Evar678]

Working more on my animation program, it's capable of stuff like this with dynamic lighting. (Still a wip)



While specifically designed for stick figure animation, you can make a custom figure and assign bitmaps to joints and do a sort of bone animation thing if you'd like. It uses keyframe animation and OpenGL for rendering. Hopefully will be at a stable point sometime this summer.

TISFAT Zero can currently be used for basic animation as it stands, though I still need to work out some bugs with bitmaps and such. I'll provide the most current build to anyone that's interested in playing around with it.

To any of you techy fellows out there: About 60% of the codebase is atrocious and will be redone in the coming months. You have been warned.