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DJ Trousdale (Hexaditidom) (Buy!)


Submitted: 03/06/2008 | 12:23PM EST

File Info: Movie | 6.7 MB | Add Movie to Favorites

Current Score: 3.66 / 5.00

287 votes | 1,741 views

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*Completely handdrawn, traditional 2D animation comprised of over 2,500 drawings to create, and coloured digitally.*

This is my first ever animated short film, created over the course of 5 months including all the preproduction time. This is completely handdrawn, traiditonal 2D animation, comprised of about 2,500 drawings done in the timespace of February to April. The film was nominated for 'Best 2D Animated Film' in my animation college's student awards.

Everything from storyboards, concept designs, backgrounds, animation, clean up, digital colouring and editting were all done by myself. The music was created by Hexaditidom, who is credited in the film. First time uploading to newgrounds. Was a struggle chopping my film to get it at this size, so sorry about the poor quality.

NOTE
I am well aware that polar bears do not live in the same places as penguins, just use your imaginations. =D

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Average Score: 9.4 / 10

Score: 10
groundpwndr

"nice"

date: April 8, 2008

any thought as to a sequel or was this too much work and considered finished?

May 14, 2008

Author's Response:

not a sequel to cecil, but i am wrapping up my second traditional animated films as we speak. Thanks for the score :D

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Score: 10
squeakytoad

"Well done."

date: March 7, 2008

Very classically animated. Loved the traditional style and story-telling. This brings back nostalgic memories of those cartoons I watched as a kid.
You did a great job.
Such a pity about the video quality. The one downfall of this short.
Hopefully you'll be able to make your future animations directly in flash.
I find it silly how Newgrounds favors some animations (giving them undeservingly high scores) simply because "Wow! You drew that by hand!?" but then ignores a lot of traditional stuff like this.
Haha, I think it's because you didn't make it obvious enough that each frame was done by hand.
You did a great job with the post-production. Nice coloring and it all fit well together. Very smooth.
Looking forward to more.
Keep animating, man!

-st

March 7, 2008

Author's Response:

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 :)

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Score: 10
Penquin11

"one of the best"

date: March 6, 2008

I luv penguins but hate the usualy poor made animations with penguins in them. This flash was great though it was very funny, keep up the work

March 7, 2008

Author's Response:

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. :(

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Score: 10
newkid-ongrounds

"Wow you have an NG account..."

date: March 6, 2008

THIS VID IS AWSOME ALL SITES!!

March 6, 2008

Author's Response:

Cheers buddy. Yeh, Cecil making the rounds. dA, youtube, wherever. Youtube is hard to get yourself promoted on, and no one really cares. Newgrounds is better because its mainly animators on here and not some crappy unfunny videos.

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Score: 9
BoldoBadass

"pretty good"

date: March 6, 2008

I love the whole feel of it. The misadventures of a penguin but then there is a happy ending.

March 6, 2008

Author's Response:

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. ^_^

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