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sharing is much appreciated! The movie is getting there but there's still a lot to do.

Thank you Emeri Chase and @snapscube for lending your voices!

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I found your art on pinterest and im so blown away by your skill!!! Everything you make is so beutiful and full of life and im in awe at even your sketches!!!

Could i ask how you make such dynamic poses? Like backgrounds and how the characters fit into them in such a realistic manner :O

hi thanks

im kind of ass at dynamic posing but, assuming you're not talking about extreme action poses or anything like that, a pretty simple trick to spice it up is to just tilt a character's body parts so that they aren't all facing the exact same direction in space. if their torso's facing sort of left, twist their head further left, or twist it right, maybe a little bit up or down, you know, go crazy. the better you understand a character in 3d the easier it is.

real people shift their weight around a lot while trying to maintain balance and it can be especially hard to capture the energy of real movement if you're working from imagination or even a still image where a person is intentionally striking a pose. you can remedy that somewhat by using video reference instead of just a photo.

as for blending characters in with backgrounds, that's way more than i can cover in a post. learn perspective & color theory, of course. i do a lot of trial an error picking colors that work on relatively flat cartoon characters against detailed, highly rendered backgrounds. i do know that if you've got a couple little guys sitting in a field of green/yellow grass, a lot of that green/yellow light is gonna bounce off that grass & onto them (and then into your eyes as the art appreciator).

most of my characters are less than 10 colors too so i don't have to think much.

it aint much but i hope that helps a little bit!

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what's up everybody i am still working on the first part of the movie it's like 70-80% there and i hopped on the bluesky bandwagon check it out

bsky.app/profile/itsdanfango.bsky.social

i'm posting old stuff and new stuff every day

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I animated a bunch of shit in 2023. getting real close to finishing part 1 of this thing hoo boy!

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Do you have a Patreon or something

Yeah I got one of those right here

It mostly sits around as a little tip jar for people who want to support me continuously, but there's a some cool bits in there too, like funny epic posts/videos detailing my painting process, and some tiny, tiny sneak peaks at the movie.

There's even a couple tiers where I draw sketches for people that I forget about constantly...

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hi hi !!! been a long time lover and admirer of your art <3 i have no idea if people have asked this already, but do u have your art available as prints anywhere? your art is beautiful and i would stare at it all day if it was possible.

I do but not for much longer! click right here

at the end of this month, Society6 is going to start charging artists monthly subscription fees for basic features like price setting and having more than 10 designs available at a time. Their pay was always terrible (and apparently it got even worse over the years, I didn't even notice), so I've decided to just shut it down.

Someday I'll do printing myself, but right now I'm all in on animating my little movie so it'll have to wait.

They're on sale right now so get something while you can!

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remember 5 years ago when i'd post fake screenshots from my hypothetical movie well here are real screenshots from a real one

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rough animation from the first scene of da movie enjoy

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hey

movie's still coming along. i'm gonna release the first part of it separate from the rest so you don't have to wait too long to see some good shit

happy year

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i just remembered something

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heceta timelapse

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heceta

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*hops over*

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the movie is coming along great but it’s gonna take more time. sorry for the wait everyone!

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happy new year tumblrinos

moved the release date on the movie to May: read about it if u want