It moves! Part 2...in 2D...

Due to a recent animated short that got uploaded to youtube, and may or may not wind up on here, I have been playing with Anime Studio. Google it, it's neat. Anyway, this program has always seemed awesome to me, even back when it was a piece of freeware called Moho (long long time ago...), but it has continually kicked me square in the shins all this time. I have an animated shortSHORT here I call "8 Minutes." Why that title? Because it took me 8 minutes to record audio, animate, and render. The video is 6 seconds long, but hey, animation takes time...sigh. If you've ever tried animating, you'll know 8 minutes isn't bad for 6 seconds of footage! So, without further doodoo...except the video, which is crap! (Back in my sarcastic youth I was one of the old guys in the balcony on the Muppets )

You obviously have WAY to much time on your hands!!!!!!!!!

The bad thing about checking this site from the Green bay worksite is that they have streaming anything disabled... so all i see is text and blackness.

With that said, I shall respond further because it'd be just plain silly.

Okay. After having finally seen the video, I would like to add that it reminds me a bit of the cartoon Adventure Time.

Other than that, not bad for a first attempt.

Very nice short! This was done I want to assume with Anime Studio? Did you follow the tutorial when you were doing this or was it just a free creation without tut's?

This was freeform. Unfortunately, I did the first two or three tutorials all the way back when it was Moho, and since they never updated them I just can't bring myself to do them again, even though I don't remember half of what is in them! Maybe one of these days...oh, first answer is yes to Anime Studio.

But I do recommend doing the tutorials! I vaguely remember something about how they made clouds and trees, and used varying line widths, then connecting lines to make a complete shape. Don't remember how to do it, but I do remember you can use that technique to make most shapes you might need.

One of these days I should try doing something serious and see how it turns out...hmmmm...

I happen to be going through the tut right now..... I haz a cricle!!!

Particle sparkly test part 1...and part 2...

Why does that look so wrong, and yet oh so right?

Update. Tested the skeletal animation available in Toon Boom Studio on a cartoon arm. Real quick, real simple. It worked.

Nice!!!