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schweizercomics · 1 year
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In ain’t one to draw a perspective grid and then place figures in it; it’s never worked for me. So here’s my method!
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serndest · 9 months
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Storyboard & Thumbnails: 3 Cats and a Mouse (Old Version)
A little storyboard edition of #throwbackthursday: my storyboard & thumbnails for my animated short in my Fall 2021 beginner 2D animation class. I still include these thumbnails so that you can see my process. Planning on redoing this into a cleaner board/less timed animatic in Adobe Fresco with their vector brushes.
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The only tweak so far: the cat names from their placeholder names (since the short doesn't mention their names). Originally: Felicity = Happy, Tristan = Sad, Damon = Mad.
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Composition-wise, there are mostly minor changes b/w thumbs & final boards. Key differences were the additional shots (cut for time) and different poses.
Self Critique/Notes
+ Liked how the off-beat but kind of endearing climax turned out; developing of surreal humor
+ Liked how Tristan’s character arc turned out (unconfident -> determined)
- Possibly remove Felicity
-- No need for her after the beginning of the story???
+ Possible springboard of exploring her in other works
- For the re-do: focus more on better expressions (possibly pull from thumbnails)
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mumblesplash · 3 months
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only the absolute realest of the real ones will have a clue what i’m talking about here but i just realized the ‘grian argues with the secret keeper’ comic is 100% the spiritual successor to that trolley problem comic i storyboarded back in december 2020 but never finished or posted
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toastyglow · 2 months
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Eyo! I just re-found the "Escape from Divinity" animatics 3 years after I originally watched them and I forgot how much I loved them lol. I was wondering if you're planning on or in the process of making parts 5/6?
hey there! part 5 has been about halfway done for a while now, and part 6 is essentially planned out as well. I can't say for sure that I'll definitely finish it, but I also haven't thrown in the towel yet? I'm just going through a sort of prolonged emotional upheaval and I can't think about it just yet.
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granlance · 11 days
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Loooong time no post. Drew this way back I January but never posted it.
Since I didn't finish the Artober at all, I've been thinking about posting some drawings of Scarlet/Violet, as I've been playing those in the last months a lot. Maybe slowly warm up again to the "arctober" drawings at some point...
Won't promise anything though, animating in-betweens is currently destroying my sanity and time
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macchitea · 10 months
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doodling some old ocs
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nosleep83 · 5 months
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What the fuck.
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erikwiese · 2 months
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SONIC PRIME "AVOID THE VOID" STORYBOARD COMPARISON
Inspired by what some of my colleagues have posted to Tumblr and IG, I’ve put together this side-by-side comparison of my Sonic Prime storyboards and the final animation. This clip is the climactic ending to “Avoid The Void,” an episode I’m particularly proud of. It’s the first one of Season Two, where Sonic and Shadow finally meet in the Shatterverse. It’s the moment their storyline, which started in Season One, connects and leads to a vicious no-holds-barred punk rock brawl!
I wasn’t supposed to direct this episode, as I had already moved on to direct a Peanuts special for Apple+ (though continued as EP on season two, but not on season three), but this episode fell into my lap due to a glitch in the schedule. So it was Peanuts by day, Sonic by night, with three weeks to build the animatic with the storyboard team. Because we had half the time we usually have, we kept our boards rough, rarely tying down a drawing. Anyway, what’s the point of doing tight drawings when it’s going to be CG, right?
Below, a still from act three of Avoid the Void, when Sonic blasts out of the Ghost World/Ghost Green Hill.
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From the early stages, when Man of Action was breaking out this episode, it was clear that this one had the potential to be something big and cinematic. Set in the surreal world of the Shatterspace, it combined weighty emotional drama with intense action. At long last, it was also the big Shadow episode that fans had been patiently waiting for!
The photo below is a screen-cap from a Zoom record of Sonic Prime's "Avoid The Void." All the voice actors are Canadian. While Duncan (one quarter of Man Of Action) and I are in Los Angeles. Seen here are (left to right) Devon Mack, Erik Wiese, Duncan Rouleau, Andrew Duncan, James Corrigall, and Ian "Shadow" Hanlin. 
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Below are some storyboard panels I drew from the opening sequence from Avoid The Void. I had to add spot color because I wanted to give the feeling of the void and also because of the different colors of the gateways.
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I hope you enjoy this behind-the-scenes look at Sonic Prime.
P.S. A shout-out to the hugely talented STORYBOARD TEAM and ANIMATION CREW! You guys rock!
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quazies · 2 years
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Here’s something a little different, comparison of my storyboards/sketch vs the final animation
One of the benefits of working alone is not having to make them suuuper detailed, since I already know any in between parts I want
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paroxysmaljune · 2 months
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we forgot we were human DID do damage to my brain to the point where i scraped together a storyboard in a couple hours and have been listening to it all day
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starchaserdreams · 10 months
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Erm, hello!
I am an aspiring writer. I have these stories in my head that I love and want to write about. But when I try, it's the absolute worst shit I've ever seen in my life.
Sorry, what I'm trying to ask is, any tips for younger writers who have no idea what they're doing...?
Hi! I have no idea what I'm doing ever, but I'll try to answer as best as I can. I'll start with generic advice, then say what works for me specifically. Sorry this got so long.
We're all kind of fumbling through life. The writing habits that I have have come from three sources:
a) hearing what other people do and building from them. I'm always in one writers group or another (currently I'm in a local writers group, and I'm regularly involved with two different NaNoWriMo groups in November, one locally and one virtually) and I've picked up a lot from them
b) a metric fuckton of trial and error. Because while part (a) is great some of the time, most of the things that work for other people don't work for me. I can't set a strict schedule at the same time everyday. I can't edit for a long time after I write.
c) NaNoWriMo (see link) helped me SO MUCH. I don't think everything can be written that way, but in terms of getting a handle on your own voice, preventing yourself from stopping to edit, and letting the story flow on its own, NaNo is amazing. It's a great starting point. Editing can come later, once the words are done on the page.
If you're unfamiliar, it's a (totally free) event that happens in November every year where everyone tries to write 50,000 words of a brand new novel in the span of one month. That's 1,667 words per day, so there isn't much time to stop and edit as you go. You just keep going. It's a competition against yourself rather than anyone else, to see if you can accomplish the task. It's also a community based event, so you can commiserate with other writers about the bad and celebrate with them about the good.
They have smaller events in April and July, but to really get the feel of it, November is when it's a party (or a rollercoaster, either way). I went to write-ins in cafes, bars, grocery stores, on the subway, etc. The event is a whole vibe, and now they have in person events again (they paused for covid). If you want to stay virtual, they have that too!
And as for what works for me:
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This most certainly wouldn't work for everyone, but it's my current strategy:
I think best when I'm in motion. By far. So most of my storyboarding I do while walking or driving, and I dictate into the notes app on my phone.
I do most of my dialogue this way too, because speaking it out loud makes it feel more like a conversation and more natural. I won't dictate the narration, but I'll include action tags. So it comes out like "Anthony: *flings door open, eyes wide* what in blazes are you doing??" (I add punctuation later)
Then when I get home, I often have several thousand words of notes to work from. My notes file for my last fic was 30k words, almost all of which had been dictated. It's a lot. It might sound daunting.
But it was done while out for a walk or drive, so it felt easy and effortless. And then when it came time to actually write, I got 48,000 words of a first draft done in 8 days (about 15k of which was just copy pasted from the outline. The whole time it felt like cheating and using guidelines to write the actual story, but it was all my original work, just done at different times.
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Keep writing as an exciting treat rather than a chore.
I've started to create little writers retreats for myself. My friends and I rented an AirBnB for two nights this winter, where the entire goal was reading and writing. Sure there was sitting around the fire talking and eating good food, but we built it up so that the writing was the exciting part. It worked SO WELL. We did writing activities together too, not just staring at a word doc. We did character studies and made little AUs to imagine our characters in.
A friend and I took a six hour road trip for another writers retreat too. We spent the 12 hours (RT) in the car talking about our stories and characters. We'd started with dozens of prompts so we'd have enough material, and we never ran out. Then we took rest stops at gas stations and restaurants and did little 15 minute writing sprints. It really got me fired up. I wrote 6,000 words over the two days of that retreat!
Keeping writing fun can be big things (my sister and I did a writers retreat like that in Hawaii) or little things (I always treat myself to a donut and a coffee on Sunday mornings and then have a leisurely morning in the cafe writing).
I can't say if any of this will work for you, because I can't even say whether it'll still work for *me* in a few years. But I hope it's food for thought!
Anyway this is like one million words long so sorry about that, hope it was interesting.
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yououui · 1 year
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accelerandy15 · 1 year
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Happy Birthday to our favorite heroine Hiyorin!!! 💖
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geoblitzz · 1 year
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So part one of my lfls comic is up! Here is some of that behind the scenes stuff I mentioned…
(video is a time-lapse; there is no sound 👍)
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katnissgirlsmakedo · 6 months
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i’m really not trying to be such a huge bitch about the girl in my group for my production class but like what do you mean you think we need to meet tomorrow to work on our production notebook. we haven’t casted anyone. the production notebook and all the planning stuff literally cannot happen in any way that matters until we have the bare minimum casting and location stuff figured out. which we don’t. what would we even be doing if we met tomorrow. talking about the concept of what we might want a shot to look like. featuring an actor we don’t have in a location we haven’t secured. can we be so for real right now. why is she so hellbent on ruining every monday morning i have. girl i don’t have much more patience to spend on you you’re killing me
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riggedbones · 16 days
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like idk man i respect that storyboard artist but i think they need to like. do indie projects or some shit like my guy if you want to do the animation and the storyboards just. hm. like. idk i know absolutely no one who follows me knows what the hell im talking about when it comes to twitter animation discourse but like yea idk like. sometimes you gotta be a team player
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