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Preview of some of this animation with an Extremely Rough draft of the background music.....I've never been good at recordings and I didn't magically get better for this 🙃 So it's gonna take some figuring out bc right now I sound like I'm recording in a cavernous toilet AND YOU CAN HEAR EVERY FUCKING KEY PRESS. KEYBOARD PROBLEMS TM. I also without fail make 78 mistakes the second I so much as breathe on the record button so ngl I'm probably just gonna cobble together mistakeless sections. If you want to know the piece it's Op 76 No 2 by Sibelius (which FYI is in the public domain in the US - where I live. I dont think there are any public domain RECORDINGS though so thats why i decided to just tackle it myself rip wish me luck) BUT IF YOU LOOK IT UP YOU WILL BE DISAPPOINTED IN ME LET'S GET THAT OUT OF THE WAY I AM NOT A REAL PIANIST BY ANY STRETCH OF THE IMAGINATION

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Two shots to go and I'm only just now realizing doing the music for this is the worst part 🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃

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on the home stretch just THREE SHOTS TO GO *dies*

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I'm curious. what job would you do if money was no object (you just automatically had an income you could live comfortably on)? including work like volunteering, studying etc. please share in the tags :)

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HEY do you guys want to know about my supplies

too bad you're going to anyway

the paints I'm using are these

I also got their 10f transparent cels. I had some cels laying around from cartoonsupplies.com but the chromacolour ones are WAY better quality. All this shit will cost you (especially if you're like me and half to ship it halfway around the damn globe) but it's generally worth it I think. I ALMOST look like I know what I'm doing XD

For lines everything sucks ass. This shitty waterproof ink you can get at your local Shitty Overpriced Neighborhood CVS Of Craftstores (aka. Michaels) is the only thing that sticks reliably and yes I am using an obnoxious little dip pen with it but I don't know where the fuck that is rn (I have one more shot to I so here's hoping I figure it out)

Oh yeah you'll want some brushes. I got some pointy ones and some flat square ones designed for acrylic and gouache. The cel paint behaves like thin acrylic paint so these work best. god help you if they're not dry

don't forget your cartoon character white gloves so you don't get finger prints on all the cels

"Hey ej quick question what the fuck do I do with all this"

glad you asked I will probably make another post about that. And about backgrounds which for me are an entirely separate animal

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Well I didn't end up being able to add more in betweens because I just straight up ran out of cels 🙃 and I'm not going to fork over 150 bucks for another pack rn so......I mean whatever you get the idea. Guy running up trippy floating stairs. Getting close to being done with this short.

as for why all the shit I do looks Like This TM like I'm going for the opposite feeling of Disney I have this to say abt my influences

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does anyone want to see a progression of a clip from rough to final?

here's a tiny digestible clip of my animation showing like the rough pencils and then the better pencils and then the ink/paint

That background is a bit wobbly I know ugh it's bc I'm doing this on a scanner and I basically have to place it every single frame and it's hard to get it in the same spot. I may do a little nudging digitally or I might just declare that MY ARTISTIC LICENSE SAYS IT ADDS CHARACTER and leave it idk

Also once again the frame rate is like "fuck you what frame rate" bc this shit is expensive

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What is the most illegal thing your OC has done?

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What in the pretentious abstract art is going on here??? You'll have to wait and see

(Backgrounds were weird to do. I basically dumped a bunch of ink on paper and smashed it with another piece of paper and pulled them apart and it looked like these. Oh I also dumped rubbing alcohol on the black one )

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Ink and paint time

And editing out fuckin scanner error lines time bc my scanner is fucking up and my fence fell over so I can't afford to get another one rn probably

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Man, I'm haunted by the mortality of the machine.

So I've been testing out using CSP on the Galaxy tab, it draws really nice but I have had it crash once on me so far. I'm worried it'll keep happening 😞

Should I get a PC ? I don't really have the space on my desk. But maybe I can find a way to make room??? Should I get a laptop?

Laptop would be better for work bc the initial reason I got an ipad was because the art setup at work was so shitty. If I had a PC I'd have to do all my work at home after work hours.

I've been reading about the galaxy 360 which is a laptop u can draw on, I'd be able to to use it with the tab (I think you can pair them and stuff) I'd have more drawing options if csp doesn't work out. But idk 😐 I'm worried I'll buy it and hate it.

Artists? What do you think? What's everyone drawing on these days?

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Also trying to keep it simple with the backgrounds. Just using ink and marker and willow charcoal for texture

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Starting work on the cels for this short. Ink is always weird because literally the only thing that sticks to these is the kind of ink you use in a fountain pen. So i get to hunker down with my pen and ink and pretend I'm writing a letter to the fucking union troops in the Civil War or something

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you are personally and directly hit by a bus¹ and isekai-ed, via resurrection, into the body of the main character your most recent WIP

reblog and tell me: on a scale of 1–10, how screwed are you right now?

¹ this is, transparently, a plot device, so if you are about to tell me "joke's on you, I never leave my fifteenth floor apartment!" then you may rest assured it will have tremendous comedic value when the bus is launched into the sky and crashes through your apartment wall to flatten you anyway

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like literally if i didn’t want to see some weird nonsense i wouldn’t be consuming scifi

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this is by far going to be the most horrible shot in my short.....cleaned it up and started refining some of the floating stair things. I think a few more in betweens and it'll almost be decent