The last few days of morning study. REF - SPOTLIGHT on ALEGRIA - Cirque Du Soleil

Rudolf Koppitz: Movement Study (1925) gelatin silver print

animation practice!! I got animation paper and HOLY JESUS it is better than Krita for animating!! This would've taken a month for me in krita, where here this took me less than a few days! It also CONVERTS IT INTO MP4 FOR YOU??? I normally have to use Sony Vegas for that. I think for video things I will use animation paper. When I clean it up a little, I'll probably overlap the main theme music or something along with some other short loops

First attempts with a different technique. With another brush and without painting the background. I‘ll show you the process in the video

"The life force inside you should dance with joy"

I rushed this one in like one hour. I typically don't watch the Oscar nominations, but I had to do it this year... for reasons. It is very nice to see non-English songs, and non-English movies, come this far.

im also heading into exam season right now so ill slow down a bit for now ✌️

Character design go brrrrrrr

Say hi to my boy Antrum :))

My Animation process: what I’ve learned

I started animating a bit this past year, but then, had to take like a 3 month break bc of school so I got out of practice :/ Now that I’m back at it again with more time to (and while I am still a beginner animator) I figured I’d share some tips I learned today with anyone trying to learn too! and I found something that really helped me was focusing on FOUR KEY FRAMES of an action:

So first I was trying to draw this hair blowing in the wind. But I didn’t really know how the hair was going to move properly, so I just kind of drew it how I thought it would look with as much detail as possible. But the detail was taking over the movement. 

So I started again, this time only doing one form for hair instead of three. It was better, but I was still getting caught up in details like the hair strands. I decided from here to just focus on the shape of the hair.

This one was a bigger step in terms of simplificaiton, but It was still so so for me in terms of movement. I wanted the hair to feel less rigid. So, I settled for a different approach. 

I began with just making four frames of an animation with no inbetweens. I focused on (as mentioned before) Four key frames. go simple.

So together, those frames playing would look something like this: 

(some of these are not the exact frames but you get the point)  it’s focusing on points that make the motion seem realistic even without it being full of frames and detail!

So then, what I did was just add the in between frames! 

Now one thing I remembered was how/where to draw them. You draw in between frames, well, in between key frames. for faster parts of motion (like when the hair goes up fast) I drew them about halfway in between each key frame. I really only did about two (of about 23 frames) Then, when the hair gets the lowest and highest points- THAT’S when it’s the slowest in motion, so draw more frames, and make them closer in distance to eachother! kind of fade from slow to fast if that helps. It’ll give good weighted motion

I also felt that I wanted to add a couple more in between frames, and also speed it up, and that was my final! 

I am not a professional obvs but I wanted to record my process to motivate myself to keep going, and to also help others out too :)) this whole process was over about a day of just sitting down and trying. so really not that much! anyway, hope this helps, go animate and have fun!!!!!

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(everything done in wick editor)

Movement studies for [mysterious new project]. Had a bad day yesterday and couldn't concentrate on anything else, even after the painkillers kicked in.

subject: movement

character: yurika (OC)

class: movement fundamentals

Some quick sketch studies this morning :D

Ask an older generation of white South Africans when they first felt the bite of anti-apartheid sanctions, and some point to the moment in 1968 when their prime minister, BJ Vorster, banned a tour by the England cricket team because it included a mixed-race player, Basil D’Oliveira. After that, South Africa was excluded from international cricket until Nelson Mandela walked free from prison 22 years later. The D’Oliveira affair, as it became known, proved a watershed in drumming up popular support for the sporting boycott that eventually saw the country excluded from most international competition including rugby, the great passion of the white Afrikaners who were the base of the ruling Nationalist party and who bitterly resented being cast out. For others, the moment of reckoning came years later, in 1985 when foreign banks called in South Africa’s loans. It was a clear sign that the country’s economy was going to pay an ever higher price for apartheid. Neither of those events was decisive in bringing down South Africa’s regime. Far more credit lies with the black schoolchildren who took to the streets of Soweto in 1976 and kicked off years of unrest and civil disobedience that made the country increasingly ungovernable until changing global politics, and the collapse of communism, played its part. But the rise of the popular anti-apartheid boycott over nearly 30 years made its mark on South Africans who were increasingly confronted by a repudiation of their system. Ordinary Europeans pressured supermarkets to stop selling South African products. British students forced Barclays Bank to pull out of the apartheid state. The refusal of a Dublin shop worker to ring up a Cape grapefruit led to a strike and then a total ban on South African imports by the Irish government. By the mid-1980s, one in four Britons said they were boycotting South African goods – a testament to the reach of the anti-apartheid campaign. . . . The musicians union blocked South African artists from playing on the BBC, and the cultural boycott saw most performers refusing to play in the apartheid state, although some, including Elton John and Queen, infamously put on concerts at Sun City in the Bophuthatswana homeland. The US didn’t have the same sporting or cultural ties, and imported far fewer South African products, but the mobilisation against apartheid in universities, churches and through local coalitions in the 1980s was instrumental in forcing the hand of American politicians and big business in favour of financial sanctions and divestment. By the time President FW de Klerk was ready to release Mandela and negotiate an end to apartheid, a big selling point for part of the white population was an end to boycotts and isolation. Twenty-seven years after the end of white rule, some see the boycott campaign against South Africa as a guide to mobilising popular support against what is increasingly condemned as Israel’s own brand of apartheid.

. . . continues at the guardian (21 May, 2021)

run away with me? 💘 and dance dance! 

study from the only video that matters this month. EVERYBODY MOVEMENT.

lil cape animation 

swooshy

jammin

Fun lil Cadence anim for myself