At 6/27/11 02:47 AM, Zeurel wrote: Do what i do. Get up at 4-5am, have the internet off and just go at it. You'll be amazed at how much you can do in those extra hours when no ones up/ the net is off.

there's a 4am? lol I kid. Or you can do it my way. Figure out how many days you have left and how many scenes you have left and divide it evenly. Here's an example:

When I was working on "Lost Heart, Found Danger", I had something like 53 scenes. I forgot the exact numbers, but I figured out that I could do 4 scenes a day and finish on time. If you look at it like that, instead of saying "Oh God! I have 10 scenes left! Ill never finish" you could say "Well I only have to finish 1 today and I'll be fine." It just kind of makes it seem less.

(Oh btw, a "Scene" to me is whenever the camera changes angles. If there's a giant section of a film with the same theme, like in LHFD the beginning to the end of the scene with Gigi in it, that's considered a "Part" for me. So LHFD was 53 scenes and 4 parts.)

On that note! Im off to finish my one scene for the day! lol

Lol, all that stresses me out. I just chill and do my work when ever I want to. Fortunately I want to quite often, so deadlines haven't seemed to be a problem.

I work like Dave, only that I don't use a formal definition of scene, I just organize on what my "scenes" could be, and try to do even work everyday. I actually work like this on everything else, be it homework, animation, or whatever. Usually as the deadline approaches I get an animation rush and do finish on time.

WELL TIME TO GET STARTED!

I finally finished the "boring" part of my flash, problem is, I'm starting to feel not much like animating this days.

At 6/28/11 05:12 PM, Mark-er wrote:

At 6/28/11 12:27 PM, Elfman-Rox wrote: WELL TIME TO GET STARTED!

There's so much time left I practically have to slow myself down so I don't finish too early!

Pretty much the same here lol. I have 8 scenes to animate and 10 days to animate them. Whats really nice about this is that I concentrate on one scene a day, which means I get to spend lots of time on each scene and pour lots of love into it. You wont be seeing much tweening this time around, its all nice, smooth, frame by frame love in this entry lol.

Wow, Fungasm versus Davebruno.
Two great animators. I think what will determine the winner is laziness. I can already tell the winners for the other matchups.
Good luck to everyone though!

I was being sarcastic lol :P

Woops! I see that now! lol Well... Hop to it buddy! lol

So today I finished my scene for the day (which is hysterical.) and I decided "Hey! Ill make a cool Photoshop painting of the main character! Ill throw it in the credits or something!" so then I proceeded to work on this painting for 3 hours, and it looks great and I finished it. Then I realized... "Where the hell am I going to use this?" sooo... yeah. Something cool for my portfolio at least! lol And no, you cant see it, it'll ruin the surprise! Ill post it after my thing airs.

In other news, Progress Reports? 9 days left! I have 7 scenes to go. Its so fun!

Put it in the art portal. If you can't put it in the menu or credits, you could link to the art submission in the flash somewhere.

I've done 40 seconds of probably about 1:30-2:00. I'm too disorganised to know how my progress is going any deeper than that.

But now I have to do the hard part. But also the fun part.

Well, almost just a week left and I'm missing ALL the backgrounds (I hate doing backgrounds) and the hardest part to animate (which I like to think as the fun one, but I'll do a lot of experimenting there). So I'm not entirely sure I'll be able to finish... Also my wrists/hands have been aching lately, it had never happened to me before when using the computer, and it's kind of annoying.

I have the medium sized Wacom Intuos 4, which is a good size. I totally want a Cintiq though! And most likely the money from this (if I win) would go towards one. Itd just make life alot easier lol.

What tablets do you guys use?

I use a really cheap model with no pressure sensitivity. I actually use the mouse more than the stylus, but the stylus comes in handy from time to time.

I have a really big tablet. I can produce the same quality drawings with my mouse (which I do when my tablet is broken), but the tablet speeds up things for me.

Mine well, does her job.

Damn was that made in the 90's?

No idea, it was a chritmas present from my parents when I was in high school, it used to have pressure sensibility back with windows xp, but when I upgraded to win7 the driver wasn't compatible and the default windows one doesn't read its---pressure sensibility. Notice the scotch tape and the run-down color on the pen... which works on batterys! Every time I go to the US I think of buying a new one and I always waste the money on something else. Still, I am the only person I know who still has working N64 controllers with sticks so yeah, durability. :)

Your wacoms look so nice.

Also did I ever said I hate doing backgrounds? Because I hate doing backgrounds... when I'm rich I'll pay someone to do them.

At 6/30/11 03:26 AM, DaveBruno wrote: I have the medium sized Wacom Intuos 4, which is a good size. I totally want a Cintiq though! And most likely the money from this (if I win) would go towards one. Itd just make life alot easier lol.

What tablets do you guys use?

*unwanted comment i know*
Dave I used to have the Wacom intuos 4 medium!! It broke and I've downgraded to the Bamboo Pen. But I'm hoping to get the Cintiq for christmas. Becuase I plan to make a year long project for the christmas animation contest.

*unwanted comment i know*

No comment is unwanted here my friend! Were all nice people here!... well... at least I am... lol And good idea! I love my Intuos 4. Its big enough that I can use my whole arm, looks sexy, has pressure sensitivity and all that good jazz, the programming you can set is awesome, and the LEDs on the front are cool. I rarely use them anymore because I usually have one hand on the keyboard at all times (particularly hovering over the CTRL+Z buttons...) so I set them to say "Dave Bruno Rocks!" lol.

So it turns out the name I pulled out of my ass, "Sarthak" is an Indian name that means "meaningful", "successful" or "fruitful". Interestingly enough, this entry has been very fruitful and I'm hoping to succeed with it! lol

Also, this in-between is just fantastic!

Great Job!
Hmm I am trying to figure out what your story is about...

At 6/30/11 09:50 PM, DaveBruno wrote: Also, this in-between is just fantastic!

Inbetweens have a really goofy look most of the time, at least mine wouldn't be the drawings I'd like to show to people, tho sometimes are plainly funny.

After a while struggling with backgrounds, I managed to draw a descent-looking car, I don't know why I keep writing animations that involve cars if I suck so much at drawing them.

At 6/30/11 10:49 PM, Jomillex wrote: Great Job!
Hmm I am trying to figure out what your story is about...

lol Im good at that, sure I post alot of screenshots, but they never really give away anything. Hell, most of the time they either confuse you into wondering what its about or make it look like everything gets out of hand lol. I guess thats good PR or something?

At 6/30/11 11:54 PM, DaveBruno wrote:

At 6/30/11 10:49 PM, Jomillex wrote: Great Job!
Hmm I am trying to figure out what your story is about...

My guess is that it is about some superhero convention, where he is signing autographs and that blue guy is just some crazy dude in a disguise who thinks he is a superhero :D

I might be wrong tho...

Pinkskull took my guess! :o

I win lol

At 7/1/11 12:33 AM, PinkSkull wrote: I win lol

Sure.... that's what its about.... >.> (mwahahahahaha! They'll never guess it!)

Lol that was my guess as well.
I guess he has a good story if we can't guess it..

I guess that I can't wait to see it D:!

I think I've finally figured out the match ups. You all probably don't care but if you look over to the bracket next to yous one of the two people will be your next opponent If you go on. I don't know If I'm right but you might wanna check it out.
@ Davebruno and Fungasm
You guys would have SandwhichEater or PinkSkull.
@ Someplaceelse and Elfman
You guys would have Lazymodecomics or Mark-er
And that's it. jeesh have fun Sandwhicheater/Pinkskull..