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Ideas for animation; Please, I need practice
Topic Started: Mar 27 2017, 03:55 PM (360 Views)
TiamaJaybird
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Okay, A couple weeks ago, I downloaded OpenToonz, a free version of the same animation software used by Studio Ghibli. I really want to work on some projects but while I have some ideas I wanna do, I have zero motivation currently to work on anything and those ideas are huge and will take me a good few weeks or months.

While I gather up the motivation to tackle those projects, I need some small scale ideas that won't take up much of my motivation and/or time to work on for practice. It can be from a walk cycle or just a character jumping, I don't care. I just need small ideas to animate to build confidence and practice. It can even be small and goofy, like this:
Posted Image (Note: I did not animate this, this is just a reference for the kind of basic animations I'm looking for.)

Any suggestions will seriously help, but I have a few rules:

1) No NSFW/Gore. Just... Just no.

2) It can't be a huge scene like a fight scene. I can barely draw those in static form, much less animate something to that scale. (With practice, I will, but for now, I am absolute garbage and ask you refrain from such requests)

3) If it's an original character, for the love of god, pm me references on discord, do not just describe them. Full body is the preference over bust, as well as side and back views. Personality descriptions are also helpful.

4) BE PATIENT. I have adhd and depression and am complete garbage at taking my medication on a daily basis. I will forget, I will procrastinate, and I might turn in lazy work before going back over it to actually work on it more (or scrap the original altogether and start over.) I might even give up and never tell you. Check back at least once a month if you must to help me remember I made a promise to give you some kind of animation, and if I tell you I gave up, just tell me encouraging things. Art isn't easy, and neither is dealing with mental illness.

5) BE HONEST WITH YOUR CRITICISM. I need to know how I'm doing from your point of views. If what I put up is garbage, tell me. If you just see a few errors, tell me. If it's perfectly fine, tell me. I need to know if I'm doing okay or doing complete trash.

This is a form of art I hope to make into a career one day, so I need to get practice in right now and to get that practice, I need to start small. Any suggestions will seriously help me.

I hope to get some suggestions soon, but take your time thinking about what you'd like!

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Edited by TiamaJaybird, Mar 27 2017, 10:33 PM.
"Give the performance of your life!!" - Kaori Miyazono Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso/Your Lie In April
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Catman
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TiamaJaybird
Mar 27 2017, 03:55 PM
1) No NSFW/Gore. Just... Just no.
This should go without saying, it would break the rules and TOS anyway.

I want to see what the explosions look like in this style. I also want to see the image Miva recently did, with an explosion behind it. So I would like to request an interpretation of that same scene but with an explosion behind it because explosions.
Here's Miva's image
Here's the post it is based on and the image in question

Here's some more pics and a crapton of description
http://catman-232.deviantart.com/art/Catman-s-Bio-Mk4-Supreme-Ultimate-Best-Edition-600590352
Spoiler: click to toggle
Edited by Catman, Mar 27 2017, 06:33 PM.
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Artisan
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An animated dark cloud that periodically shoots lightning.
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WitchRolina
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Tohru-chan! I love it. Can we get one of Kanna?
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WitchRolina
Mar 27 2017, 10:11 PM
Tohru-chan! I love it. Can we get one of Kanna?
Sorry, I didn't animate the gif of Tohru. But I can certainly try to mimic it with Kanna still if you want. Kanna is the little loli girl, right? (I have not seen the anime yet, but it looks super cute.)
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Nedben
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Kergerenko, sitting at one of those futuristic terminal desks and poking buttons, possibly full-scale typing, with a moderately happy expression. (Edit: Additional reference for the Zeon uniform if needed.) Because Planetouched Play D&D is too funny to pass up randomly referencing. If it's too easy, add a bit where they turn to the side and talk to someone offscreen (don't forget braid swish), if it's too hard to draw typing just draw them poking a big red button from a seated position (idk, it'd be the 'big emergency red button').

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Sorta like this but without the background or replace it with some generic easy to draw thing like a space window or a grey wall. Angle's entirely up to you.

EDIT: better ref pic, if low res
Edited by Nedben, Mar 28 2017, 12:27 AM.
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