Mab's sucks (Animation)

[Mabelma]

Tidings my fellow bed mates, I mean, newgrounders! I come to you with animations galore, or rather w.i.p work looking for comments and harsh, harsh but constructive criticism. I recently got back into animating, and I decided to take on several projects on "alone" currently I have about 52 scripts written for comics I once wanted to make, but never got around to so I figured if they were funny to me in comic form, they might translate really well into animation. So that's one of those projects, turning those scripts into animation. Another such project is a music video for a rapper friend of mine, and the list goes on, but really those are the two I'm working on at the moment.

The purpose of this topic is to post wips of "hard" scenes, by hard I mean heavy on the fbf spectrum, non of that silly tween stuff, why bore you with such things when I can hit you with my rock hard frames?!

So yeah enough pleasantry bitches! Take an explosion to the face!
http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/7f939ed46a795be63a11cfffec4018f6

... I'm sorry, I've been informed I shouldn't call nice people "bitches" please forgive me...

All seriousness though, hope you like my work, and I'd love to hear what you have to say, I'll be updating this as more heavy stuff comes my way, expect to see some diverse stuff, as the "comics to animations" project is all about experimenting in all forms of the animation medium. So here's that linkagain in case it got lost in my attempt at humor.

[Mabelma]

http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/77d83da5d235fb08b650e37e63cfbcdb

Been a while since I've posted, well I've been working on a bunch of stuff, but I finally got some time to finish up this thing, or at least the planning part, I hate myself! I know don't judge me.

I gotta add inbetweens everywhere but I figured it's best if I just went ahead and inked everything and then add inbetweens afterwards instead of also sketching the inbetweens like I did with the first part of the explosion. Cuts down the amount of time I need to spend on it. Fuck and I also need to time it right, this version that I'm posting isn't actually timed with the animation, urgh!!!!

But whatever, hope you all like it. Would love to get some feedback on it :)

[Mabelma]

Did some more work on that explosion animation, and made everything a lot more interesting in terms of animation, so yeah figured I'd just post everything, and you know see what you all think. Mostly just sketchy key frames, and shitty audio but you learn as you go.
http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/1730c6e3b369341ef3a1342d47edca5b
Let me know what you think :) It was a stupid joke but it made me laugh, that's all the explanation there is for this.

[ZazDupree]

I would say, as far as your explosion animation goes, the actualy explosion happens just a touch too slowly, see if you could actually remove some inbetweens there. But the timing on the rest of it looks good, as well as the style and and drawing.

[Mabelma]

At 5/14/14 08:17 PM, ZazDupree wrote: I would say, as far as your explosion animation goes, the actualy explosion happens just a touch too slowly, see if you could actually remove some inbetweens there. But the timing on the rest of it looks good, as well as the style and and drawing.

Thank you! I'm very happy you like most of the stuff you saw. Definitely gonna do that, on the next update. Really appreciate the input :)

[Mabelma]

At 5/17/14 12:23 PM, ShadowCounter wrote:

At 5/16/14 01:52 PM, Mabelma wrote:

At 5/14/14 08:17 PM, ZazDupree wrote: I would say, as far as your explosion animation goes, the actualy explosion happens just a touch too slowly, see if you could actually remove some inbetweens there. But the timing on the rest of it looks good, as well as the style and and drawing.

Thank you! I'm very happy you like most of the stuff you saw. Definitely gonna do that, on the next update. Really appreciate the input :)

I think the smoke and dust from the exploding house should spread away as it disappears, instead of coming inwards. other than that, the animation is great

Well I was going for that whole nuclear atom bomb explosion but maybe I didn't do enough research, I'll see what I can do, though I'm pretty fond of the whole dissolving on the ground thing as it shows the now exploded shack, like a curtain at the theater.

[Mabelma]

On the side of my animated movie projects I'm also trying to build a small portfolio for game animations, thus here we have the wip for a mushroom character I'm trying to develop. Just a sketch for now. Wanted him to jump for his walk cycle. Any thoughts?

http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/d6382c5edf92f84f3261e8ca51e82c0c

[KhanhCPham]

At 5/18/14 06:24 PM, Mabelma wrote: On the side of my animated movie projects I'm also trying to build a small portfolio for game animations, thus here we have the wip for a mushroom character I'm trying to develop. Just a sketch for now. Wanted him to jump for his walk cycle. Any thoughts?

http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/d6382c5edf92f84f3261e8ca51e82c0c

overall it looks good. My only gripe is the anticipation of the jump. It looks like it lost some weight at that moment. Maybe you can use distort/warp tool to bulge the figure so it can retrain its weight and maintain that squoosh motion.

[ZazDupree]

Here's an example of what I meant, something I made for an Android game my friends working on. Where most of the weight of the animation is on the smoke after the primary sort of expansion happens in the explosion.
http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/43e914d98a4d67311243bd3edb07f03a

Hope this helps!

[Mabelma]

At 5/19/14 01:06 AM, KhanhCPham wrote:

At 5/18/14 06:24 PM, Mabelma wrote: On the side of my animated movie projects I'm also trying to build a small portfolio for game animations, thus here we have the wip for a mushroom character I'm trying to develop. Just a sketch for now. Wanted him to jump for his walk cycle. Any thoughts?

http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/d6382c5edf92f84f3261e8ca51e82c0c

overall it looks good. My only gripe is the anticipation of the jump. It looks like it lost some weight at that moment. Maybe you can use distort/warp tool to bulge the figure so it can retrain its weight and maintain that squoosh motion.

Yes, I noticed that I plan to fix it on the clean up stage. Thanks for the input though, really happy you like it so far :)

At 5/19/14 03:38 AM, ZazDupree wrote: Here's an example of what I meant, something I made for an Android game my friends working on. Where most of the weight of the animation is on the smoke after the primary sort of expansion happens in the explosion.
http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/43e914d98a4d67311243bd3edb07f03a

Hope this helps!

I'm not sure I got your first message as it only shows this message, not the first one you hinted at with "this is what I meant" so I'm a little bit confused as to what you are referencing. But the animation you showed is pretty awesome!

[Mabelma]

Did a little more work on that character animation thing I was doing.
http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/d3c6804fa000950495716c1f17e2a3f9

[Sjiht]

At 6/4/14 01:42 PM, Mabelma wrote: Did a little more work on that character animation thing I was doing.
http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/d3c6804fa000950495716c1f17e2a3f9

What I instantly noticed is that the upper left shroom has no settle after his jump. You should squash him abit, make him go deeper when he lands to add weight to the animation. Absorb impact.

[Sjiht]

At 6/4/14 02:48 PM, Sjiht wrote:

At 6/4/14 01:42 PM, Mabelma wrote: Did a little more work on that character animation thing I was doing.
http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/d3c6804fa000950495716c1f17e2a3f9

What I instantly noticed is that the upper left shroom has no settle after his jump. You should squash him abit, make him go deeper when he lands to add weight to the animation. Absorb impact.

Sorry for the double post: forgot to add this quick 1 minute dribble i made as to make it more clear.
http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/18eb84dcd86ccc2f793aae34de2b2360

[Mabelma]

At 6/4/14 03:04 PM, Sjiht wrote: Sorry for the double post: forgot to add this quick 1 minute dribble i made as to make it more clear.
http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/18eb84dcd86ccc2f793aae34de2b2360

Thank you definitely see what you're say, I'll add that in for sure :) Really appreciate the feedback.

[Mabelma]

I took a small break from those animations to work on a couple of other projects, amongsts them an intro for a friends youtube channel.

http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/1e9bbf2a9f0604e945ca982a300fcc23

[Mabelma]

Been away for a while but here we go again. I've been doing daily animation warm-ups, here's my file so far. About 3 days of warm-ups so far.
http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/34a5af0945166b4c176b40b16c171637

[Mabelma]

Bouncing slime creature. The transparency was a bad idea.

[Mabelma]

Here's a better animation, a little guy transforming into a demon creature. WIP

[Mabelma]

At 7/31/16 06:39 PM, Mabelma wrote: Here's a better animation, a little guy transforming into a demon creature. WIP

Finished it up, or at least as much as I want to do on this exercise on to the next thing.
Doing mostly character animation for now.

[Mabelma]

Some quick exercises from this site:
www.animatorisland.com/51-great-animation-exercises-to-master/

[Mabelma]

Last one for now

[Mabelma]

LVL1 ex4

[Mabelma]

LVL1 EX 5-7