Hey guys!

I know a lot of you are leaving Tumblr, so for those asking,

I have an Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/a.neets/ and a Twitter- https://twitter.com/AnitaGaughan

Just in case you guys want to follow there! I don’t post as much on these, but will try my best to keep them up-to-date! 

I’ll still be here on Tumblr, and hope to be updating soon!! Thanks so much to everyone who followed this blog for the past few years, you’re all the best :)

Have a great day!  X

“MAGNUS!” Some work in progress from a small bit I’m doing for “The Adventure Zone Animated”

Got some free time to do a lil’ dive doodle!

Another KH heartless, one of my faves this time!

After a thousand years, I’ve finally tried animating something Kingdom Hearts related. 

My blogs lookin’ a bit abandoned!! :O

Been busy lately but still working on some gifs to upload here! In the meantime, here’s a really small section of a work in progress :)

Another horse run!

Some bird animation practice

My Secret Santa gift for Sean O’Reilly! Happy Holidays!! :D

Fire dude lip sync test

Sound clip is from “Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life”

I intended to put a human on the horse, but had hardrive failure and lost that file. (Back up yer work, back up yer work!!!)

Colour and image quality was cut by insaaaane amounts to get it moving as a gif, might try to get it up as a video soon! Also, here’s a beautiful tutorial and PS brushes for the clouds by this fab artist http://yuumei.deviantart.com/art/Cloud-Tutorial-Part-1-396507964

A few unfinished pieces that I didn’t have the time to complete, what with commuting and all that malarkey.. But!! Practicing techniques for (hopefully) a bigger project I have in mind to show some time! :)

Playing around with run cycles - Guild wars charr

More flight animation... and probably the most detailed background evurrr  

Replaying pokemon gold – so here’s the odd caveman/crocodile, croconaw!!

Edit: (Thanks for the heads up about the frozen gif guys! :) FINALLY got it to work!! But had to get rid of some quality)

A few people asked for a step-by-step animation process. I’mnot too fond of doing these, as I’m still learning myself - but hopefullythis is kind of helpful?

So here’s what I do for animation taken from a reference.

1st image: The reference. (Taken from BeyondSlowMotion) The footage cut before the entire action of the dog jumping ended, so I’m taking info for the landing from a later clip. This action is all done straight ahead. So I’d put my keysdown one after the other, quite rough – until I get something like this (1st image)

2nd Image: Next I’ll go back into it, arrange the keys apart to create some contrast in the timing, and rough it out a little bit more. Taking note of arcs etc…

3rd Image: Then I would do my clean up. Still doing some adjustments on timing

4th Image: I’d put in the colour and shadows, and would then export .png sequences of this from TVP.

5th and final image: I’d bring these sequences into after effects, and add camera movement/lighting/colour adjusting etc… Then import video frames to layers in photoshop, and save as a .gif! :) (Lost a good bit of quality on the final gif..)

This animation was a little too big to make into a gif, too much lava