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Star Wars Adventures Annual 2019        | story by Pierrick Colinet & Elsa Charretier, art by Margaux Saltel

#I’M CRYING YOU’RE CRYING WE’RE ALL CRYING

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“I will always save you.” (reposting here to see if this shows up on the tags!)

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“I will always save you.” (reposting here to see if this shows up on the tags!)

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cartoon Lexa for her loyal clexa army ❤︎ 

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haven’t done fan art in a long while. Super excited for this ex-vampire to come back! @carmillaseries @natvanlis 

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From my personal blog, my last year class animation with a team of 4 and only 7 months to produce won some more awards last night and I couldn’t be prouder! Don’t belittle yourselves kids, sometimes while you’re busy draggin’ yourself for not animating enough someone else can be appreciating what you’ve done. This just pushed me forward and motivated me once again to keep doing what I’m doing! Don’t let anyone drag you down, not even you. Because what you make is worth something. That’s for sure. <3

-Char

Who would’ve imagined that a little chupacabra looking for a friend would get so far. 💚 So proud of my team @paolamelendezroca for pushing us all to keep going and keeping us together/motivated, @carla.draws for doing all those amazing colorful backgrounds/props and @rodmeister_009 for animating like an unstopable machine! Thank you to the Rincon Film Festival for giving us this opportunity, and congratulations to our fellow animators and dear friends @anikiart, @juliamsketch and their team for also taking a winning home! So proud of us all! (at Escuela de Artes Plásticas y Diseño)

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fernando finamore steven universe tribute

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Sword of the Stranger, Animation by Yutaka Nakamura

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Supergirl deserves all of the fan art! @thecwsupergirl

-Char

This is like the 5th time I try doing supergirl fan art and thank god it’s semi nice. 

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last minute secret santa for a college friend. Happy Holidays! Winter is here!

-Char

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The stream I recorded from yesterday is now up online. It’s me compositing a 2D animated shot (Actually, two!) in After Effects from start to finish. This is for one of my projects of I’ve been on and off. Again, compositing is also known as “Post Production”, “Final Image” or “Polishing the poo”. I talk about direction, making stylistic choices, composition, cheating certain effects, etc.

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i hate them so much. (back to basics)

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Lexa is also Pokemon af. 

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1. Ah Fai was a chief animator for McDull’s animated features. He’s super cool. Ultimate senpai. 

2. Previous post on breakdowns right here 

Some thoughts on acceleration and force

I presented this in the order of how I slowly understood the trick of delivering force - first an abstract concept of impact taught by Ah Fai, then a more complicated discovery on the acceleration pattern, last back to a more abstract concept of breakdowns. 

Like I’ve previously stressed, 2D animation is everything but one single approach. There’s no one rule that rules them all, but interchangeable ideas with math, or physics, or music, etc. There’s no “perfect” animation either, but what is perceived as organic and dynamic. E.g., using the Fibonacci numbers to animate didn’t bring me a perfect animation! On the other hand, a tiny change in the pattern could already make the feeling of force so much more powerful. 

Not so much of a tutorial than a personal experience. I hope you find this interesting hahaha 

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Arm Rotation Row 1 & 2 Row 3 & 4

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for my pigeon queen and amazing friend, @thatsnotsoymelk. I love you bro. 

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Me and my college buddies do a “summer drawing challenge” to keep using our dang hands. This was Day 01: Physical interactions (i ship it.)

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P.S. I feel like ppl would appreciate this dramatic close up. You know, for romantic tension and stuff. lol