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Published: 2006-11-23 13:07:52 +0000 UTC; Views: 13767; Favourites: 82; Downloads: 5729
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Description Burrowing through piles of old stuff, came across some video of my very first real animation work, back when I attended classes for the subject.

This is actually my third class project, your basic wave cycle, first-semester-type stuff. The trick is that the waveform moves laterally while the subject matter is positioned relative to the surface of the wave.

You can see I got cocky and tried to add a flying bird into the background, with the end result being that I proved how much I still didn't know about what the hell I was doing. But hey... we all gotta start somwhere.

Pencil on animation bond, originally shot with a camera, formatted to Quicktime, eventually converted down to a GIF for your amusement. I cannot for the life of me recall exactly when I did this, but I believe it was around late 98-99.
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Comments: 42

kinkei [2007-07-20 10:24:01 +0000 UTC]

wow this is lovely! great animation.

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plexar37 [2007-06-15 01:27:37 +0000 UTC]

Awesome stuff! I really like.

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arachibutyrophobic [2007-05-06 03:02:44 +0000 UTC]

poor dude ... hat flying off eternally and everything. and his butt must hurt. like the clouds in the background, also the pencilly quality.

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Roskyspoofers [2007-04-03 21:54:27 +0000 UTC]

Darn, I cant see it... my computer starts spitting and cussing at me when I try to download it. Lazy ol' piece of junk...

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zoomzoom [2007-02-03 03:58:19 +0000 UTC]

u know... if you add nipples to those hills... this will have a whole new effect!

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Polar15 [2006-12-18 07:24:27 +0000 UTC]

Whoa! how many frames was this?

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Inkthinker In reply to Polar15 [2006-12-21 00:02:44 +0000 UTC]

I'm not sure offhand... not more than 16 or so, I think.

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sunsetonthe8th [2006-12-16 15:07:37 +0000 UTC]

Hee-hee... The boat drops out from underneath him and everything. I didn't care about the bird - that's some inertia, haha!

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tkim2008 [2006-12-13 23:34:42 +0000 UTC]

That's so smooth, but the water waves somewhat look like little hills : P

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Inkthinker In reply to tkim2008 [2006-12-14 00:20:46 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, it was early work and a little primitive. I'm not sure how I'd handle it now, but it would probably have more weight to the swells.

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TheOnlyWarman [2006-12-01 16:34:10 +0000 UTC]

w00t

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OrangiCat2010 [2006-11-30 19:01:20 +0000 UTC]

A good job.... a fave, the secondary animation it's so good!

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MrBallistic [2006-11-26 02:37:00 +0000 UTC]

Its got a whimsical feel to it. Like how the hat comes off.

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Presence-III [2006-11-25 17:26:23 +0000 UTC]

How cool of you to post this.

~Presence-III

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antimator15q [2006-11-25 17:08:42 +0000 UTC]

cool. hindsight is the best foresight....or something profound like that. fav.

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YourFathersMustache [2006-11-25 09:01:04 +0000 UTC]

pretty cool stuff
where do u work now?

the only crit is..wait who cares, you know what ur strenghts and weakness of this is!

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Inkthinker In reply to YourFathersMustache [2006-11-25 19:36:10 +0000 UTC]

Humouring the Fates Inc, an independant production house in Florida. Mostly on commercials, but it's interesting what pops up from time to time.

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YourFathersMustache In reply to Inkthinker [2006-12-06 19:49:57 +0000 UTC]

sounds very cool
good luck with all!

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fiora-darkelf [2006-11-25 03:58:05 +0000 UTC]

wow.

for some reason i could stare at that for a REALLY REALLY long time XD It kind of just draws me in

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waydre [2006-11-24 20:20:27 +0000 UTC]

heh!
...even with your old stuff, you are heads and tails above the curve, man!
i'm REALLY glad you stuck with it, to get where you are!
*fave*

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genekelly [2006-11-24 14:58:25 +0000 UTC]

Sorry to hear your school experience was so crappy. I really like that loop though.

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Inkthinker In reply to genekelly [2006-11-24 20:21:04 +0000 UTC]

It had its good moments... I can't really lay blame at anyone's feet for the disappointing aspects.

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MrBalloon [2006-11-24 12:28:26 +0000 UTC]

Gah, now I want to get going with animation again. Damn you.



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Inkthinker In reply to MrBalloon [2006-11-24 20:31:30 +0000 UTC]

Do it!!

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MrBalloon In reply to Inkthinker [2006-11-24 20:37:53 +0000 UTC]

But I have so many things to do.... Or something.

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WaroDaBeast [2006-11-24 10:32:33 +0000 UTC]

Nice work. Glad you posted it here on dA.

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soliton [2006-11-24 04:34:41 +0000 UTC]

i never dabbled with animation, although it does interest the back part of my brain. i think this clip looks awesome.

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crouching-kitty [2006-11-24 00:24:44 +0000 UTC]

it looks like.. hes wearing bunny slippers.. Awesome xD <3 Quite smooth though, I like it.

Animation school... Do have any suggestions for a good animating college?

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nemuiPanda05 [2006-11-23 21:42:40 +0000 UTC]

nice loop.. i watched for like a minute before i figured out it was the same thing over and over XD

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ShikaruOC [2006-11-23 19:59:35 +0000 UTC]

hehehae thats pretty cool ^^

since mine loaded a bit late, i could see it frame by frame first.
neat ^^

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Chrono1209 [2006-11-23 18:44:49 +0000 UTC]

why werent you happy with your school?

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Inkthinker In reply to Chrono1209 [2006-11-25 08:03:26 +0000 UTC]

Mostly because it didn't really challenge me, and it cost a lot of money. I did get some very important lessons out of it, and it wasn't as though I had a lot of choices, and it's all old news now.

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bearcavestudios [2006-11-23 18:38:27 +0000 UTC]

really cool

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C-D [2006-11-23 17:43:47 +0000 UTC]

I LOVE the bird that's just flying in one spot XD awesome

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C-D In reply to C-D [2006-11-25 19:51:34 +0000 UTC]

I know
that's what makes it awesome

kind of an opposite thing

it would probably be best not to put a bird in a loop I guess for it will be in that spot...forever!

but I didn't really want to critique because it's such an old assignment

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Inkthinker In reply to C-D [2006-11-25 08:08:14 +0000 UTC]

It's cute, but it's totally wrong.

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mastermead [2006-11-23 16:37:15 +0000 UTC]

You know what would be really interesting, if you remade the same scene now, and let them loop parallell to each other.

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Sagewulf [2006-11-23 15:34:18 +0000 UTC]

No matter what kind of work you show, old or new, it's still great. I really do like this though, and I see what you mean by adding the bird in there. But man, look at how far you've come! This is still very cute and inspirational, geat work!

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Ikitsu [2006-11-23 15:08:40 +0000 UTC]

Still inspriring me to want to do animation. :3

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Inkthinker In reply to Ikitsu [2006-11-25 08:16:07 +0000 UTC]

Do it!! If you got a tablet, Easytoon is perfect for starters.

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Ikitsu In reply to Inkthinker [2006-11-25 18:05:30 +0000 UTC]

im practicing around with it. :3

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Malakuko [2006-11-23 13:56:09 +0000 UTC]

lol dats really cool!!!!!

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