Spaceman Bob and the Time Apple

[Gerkinman]

I know most people here will hate this, but i guess thats part of the fun.

Spaceman Bob and the Time Apple

Essentially this is for a monthly animation contest held in this country. You get a month to quickly put something together related to a key word, this months being Time Travel. I managed to get this done in just over a week, since i have a massive freelance job starting on Thursday i didnt really have much more time to spend on this project. I wanted to try some limited animation, blah blah blah.

Opinions.

[bcube]

I liked the way the shady guy looked but the animation was too stiff yadda yadda you know the usual stuff

[Gerkinman]

I liked the way the shady guy looked but the animation was too stiff yadda yadda you know the usual stuff

I kinda wanted it to be stiff, altho visually its nothing like Jason Forrest's War Photographer i wanted to have similar limited animation, hes obviously far better at it then i am, but hopefully over time ill improve.

[FrozenSheep]

The art was great, colorful and vibrant but the animation lacked life. Maybe you could try easing the movements after each action jump, it might give more of an animated feel to it, but I'm not sure. Also, the general story did not engage me blah blah blauh

It was a great movie, it just needs some polishing.

Edit:
http://spamtheweb.com/ul/upload/080908/65833_legg.php
Here same amount of movement drawn on your movie but with a bit of modification. It might look crappy if over done, so I don't know, you might want to give it a try. Its a crappy example but you get the idea.

[Sonni]

I like the art in the flash movie but the animation looks pretty stiff. I know you're going for limited animation but I think adding just one extra inbetween would make the movement looks better.

Ok here's my lame explanation in flash form.

[Gerkinman]

The art was great, colorful and vibrant but the animation lacked life. Maybe you could try easing the movements after each action jump, it might give more of an animated feel to it, but I'm not sure. Also, the general story did not engage me blah blah blauh

It was a great movie, it just needs some polishing.

Edit:
http://spamtheweb.com/ul/upload/080908/65833_legg.php
Here same amount of movement drawn on your movie but with a bit of modification. It might look crappy if over done, so I don't know, you might want to give it a try. Its a crappy example but you get the idea.

Yeh, ill try some of that next time, since i actually enjoyed animating this far more then i did anything ive ever done fbf or tweened, thats to say i dont like fbf, its just hard to animate something when your not enjoying what your doing. No doubt if i had more time i would have done some tweaking, but i cant really put this payed job off any longer, had to get this out of the way.

[Blordow]

not bad gerkin, i can sorta see the simplistic animation style you were goin for, however i think you should definitely try and improve on your animation and fbf techniques for future projects. as I've noticed its something you need to work on. you seem to be developing a nice style, but theres something about it that doesn't do it for me. hopefully you can continue to develop your style further so it strays away from the other similar cell shaded styles or whatever its called.

[rtil]

afak i've never seen stiff animation that was good
gl with that

[Gerkinman]

afak i've never seen stiff animation that was good
gl with that

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAFXayH1bpY

Not even this?

[rtil]

it would be better if it was more thoroughly animated