Learning New Techniques!!

I just loove Oropo.

And this scene is awesome

Animation Is The Best

Traditional animation

CGI animation

Rotoscope animation

Claymation

Stop Motion animation

Cutout animation

Motion Capture animation 

Animatronic animation

American animation

Foreign animation

Puppetry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6WMbV5Op58

Zoetrope animation 

Sand animation 

Kinetic Typography animation

Paint on Glass animation

Drawn on Film animation

Pinscreen animation

MOTHER FUCKING ANIMATION. 

Sometimes I’m just sitting here minding my own business and then I remember that Thor specifically entrusted Loki with placing Surtur’s crown on the fire to initiate Ragnarok and I tear up a little bit because that’s how you love and support your chaotic neutral sibling. 

🎄 it’s that time of the year 🎄

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#me whenever there is a small inconvenience

This is my first animation, if I can call it that. 

I spent time on this.

Reblogs are appreciated! Don’t repost w/o my permission or remove my caption, thanks!

just for the heck of it, heres a 2 hr speed paint of a fabulous skeleton with appropriately dramatic musical accompaniment (photo ref from Heavenly Bodies: Cult Treasures & Spectacular Saints from the Catacombs by Paul Koudounaris)

The lip sync tutorial they DON’T give you

I mentioned on twitter that I wanted to do a lip sync tutorial and immediately got some people who were interested so I put one together real quick!

I’m going to use a bit of unfinished lip sync from my taz animated part as reference. They’re just gifs so no sound, but you should still be able to tell that he’s saying “I’d say a solid B… Solid B minus.”

Anyone who’s looked up how to do lip sync has seen phoneme charts. Phonemes are just the shape your mouth makes when you make certain sounds.

When you do lip sync, you want some kind of reference to make sure it’s right

What’s easiest is to say it yourself and pay attention to the shapes your mouth is making. Since you’re going frame by frame, your audio is slow enough that you can make each shape slowly and distinctly and you can get each individual phoneme down in the animation.

Don’t do this.^

An easy way to tell if you’re animating lip sync wrong is if you run out of frames to make each shape. You don’t need them! Making each shape is unnatural. People talk quickly and the mouth doesn’t have the time to get into each shape. They blend together, sometimes to the point where the shape doesn’t change at all!

Not only does the 2nd gif take less frames and energy to make, it’s more relaxed, it looks less distracting, and his lips are much easier to read!

These are reference charts to show the differences more clearly

This is the difference between getting swallowed up in every last detail and paying attention to reality.

What matters more than hitting every syllable is making it look natural and flow with the acting. That’s why anime mouth flaps can work so well. A strong pose through the whole body matters more than one mouth shape.