Thanks man. Yeh, noticed some abstract 2D animation got quite popular. Thing is abstract straight ahead animation does just build and build the amount of drawings you do, because the artist doesn't really time the animation properly, so you usually see things at a constant speed or spacing. Plus, its not really character animation, which is tricky, making a line grow or whatever is pretty basic.

Maybe its just because my hand isn't in shot, or that the film doesnt look like 2D animation, which is great from my point of view, means I made something like looks professional. Maybe I should have uploaded pencil tests to be popular ^_^

No hard feelings. Its a finished film that i am happy to send to companies and stick on my showreel. Cartoon Network wont hire you for animating a line after all now will they ;)

Picture quality sucks, but it was either this size and be blurry, or smaller and still be abit blurry. lol Hopefully my next film will render better...although it'll take longer cos of the length of it. I could just clean it up in flash though, who knows :)

thanks very much. i originally thought up the character 2 or 3 years before this film. After that year, I found out films like Happy Feet and Surf's Up were coming out, and was gutted., like it seemed like I was jumping on the bandwagon. :(

Thanks :D
Everything has to have a happy ending right? Well, thats what I was told. The original ending had cecil all alone and sleeping on top of a poorly constructed igloo, but the tutors weren't too happy with it. ^_^

Thanks very much. I have to admit, it isnt my first animation, but it my first film and project on this scale. Apart from this, maybe the longest piece i had done was 20 seconds. I have got a new filmed planned for this year which I am animated as we speak actually. Should be good fun. This film was part of a portfolio builder. Shows I can do kids cartoons, and the next one is more humor/joke based, for more of an adult swim type audience. I animated it in 3 weeks and its a minute longer than cecil, but now I am tweaking animation, really pushing it. Problem with traditional animation is it takes so long to tweak. I hope to get some flash stuff done too.
Anyway, thanks again, really appreciate the kind words :)

thanks alot. I gladly accept favourited into my verbal dictionary, even if spellcheck doesnt ^_^