waoooo!!!

you know i approve of the motion blur! now go make a version that is as long as the song, bwhahahaha! excellent stuff, man. was there any rotoscoping involved?

of course. It should be an extended live version too! Yeah the basis of this was a video which I changed the timing of. It's funny when I got into it I thought "how can I make these movements seem faster and the answer; "Patrick Fram's motion blurs!" Thanks for being such an inspiration. Also, I never got a chance to do any rotoscoping at SCAD I hope no one thought that this was done straight out off the top of my mind. I should had mentioned that. I did however make one of keywords rotoscoping. I need to animate the birds more. I only spent 20 minutes on them and I think it shows just add a three frame loop or something.

Sorry for typing your face off! I should encourage people commenting more. I'm like an grandmother or something.

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Thanks for the enthusiasm!

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Nice. When I saw the motion blurs, I said to myself "steal from patrick! yay!"
I think we all did that. I always saw them in Chuck Jones cartoons, but never really understood them until I watched pat-pat do it and then -click- it all made sense.

I would totally go back and throw in some more animation on those birds. It can be hard to animate a good flying bird (which is why mine is a fatso bird bwahahaha) but I think it would really add to it. I'd also love to see it in color, if you ever got the chance. Hell, I'd even color it if I got the time.

Looking good though, and I'm glad to see that you just didn't flat out rotocope it and change dthe timing. Funny how rotoscoping doesn't look as real unless you apply the 12 principles, even though rotoscoping is true to life

Great FBF animation. Very professional-looking. If you hadn't written "flash" in there on the first frame, I would have mistaken it for hand drawn cell animation.

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Thanks, I like it when you stop by. A Disclaimer, it is rotoscope. Thanks for the kinds words and stopping by.

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Thanks Daniel, wow. I just spent 5 minutes typing a comment back to you and forgot to hit the "send" button.

Well, I meant everything I said so I'll try to get it all back.

I also didn't get motion blurs until Fram did them. I like the fact that he made them obvious. It adds character to the art and it feels like it's done more so because it's fun and second because it looks cool and last because it works.

I definitely need to work on the birds. I didn't like them and was skeptical if they'd work at all. They convey what I wanted but by themselves are way too flat.

As far as color goes since 'Line Art' and before I've really wanted to play with the black line on empty space until I find it right. So in the meantime you guys have to deal with anything serious coming from me fitting those parameters. It's not because colors are a bad idea, not at all and I know I sound lazy but it really is something I want to perfect. When I'm 50 I'll let you know if I'd have dropped it yet by then.

And you're right about rotoscoping. I never had a chance to do it before so I'm really glad I tried it and I will do some more. I think it's a step up from drawing from life and I think I could learn a lot from working with it. but if I hadn't changed the timing this whole thing would have been too slow for what I wanted.

I can never remember the 12 principles but I find that the more I animate the more they start to come with me. One thing that you noticed was my sense of timing improving and I never got anticipation or overlapping movement until recently.

Thanks for the kind words and the advice. I'm always down for a serious critique on any of my pieces. I know its awkward for all of us but I thought I'd get that out in the air.

Can you tell I'm desperate for human affection? So lonely.... haha.... Sorryy for typing so much and I hope it was bearable.

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It's funny how quickly we can improve in such a short amount of time. Your senior project was great, but in terms of animation, this, as simple as it is, blows it out of the water (minus your birdies )

I totally get what you mean about perfecting lines. It's a tough thing to do. The lines are why I stepped out of Flash and into photoshop for the clean-up on my senior film. Not that there's anything wrong with the lines of flash, they're great. But I needed something softer for my film.
It's probably better to get a handle of black on white before throwing color in anyways.

I think it's incredibly important for us to be honest with each other because otherwise, we will never make those important leaps and bounds. instead, we'll just keep driving in circles.