kyalbrownart

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Sonic! ✨

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The FLAMES OF DISASTER!!

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Hiya !! Absolutely adore your sonic frontiers animation :'>

I was wondering if you have some advice on something, I've been trying to animate battle scenes recently, I know how the characters act and what their personalities are like, but I can't seem to get their body language portray said traits.. Any advice on that at all?

thanks either way rlly :>

Hiyaa! Really glad you like the Frontiers animation!

And sure, I'm no master but I'll try my best to give some tips. Apologies for the essay, I can never give short tips!

(might edit this way down when I have time)

Keep in mind not just a characters' personality and traits, but also their emotions. Our emotions are expressed by our body language even when we're feeling neutral. How are you feeling right now? Are you sitting? How exactly are sitting? Slouched because you're bored? Sitting up-right because you're trying to focus? Apply those thoughts to your characters too.

Don't forget facial expressions and hands too. We don't only show body language through the larger parts of our body.

Acting things out is a good tip. Animators also have to be actors! Record yourself doing actions, watch yourself closely in the mirror trying to portray a character. Even if you're doing a fight scene and you can't fight yourself. I animated Amy dodging missiles like it was ballet, none of which I can do... but I absolutely had to act it out a looooot until it looked and felt right haha. It might feel silly but it's important to understand how your body works, and therefore your characters.

Practice gesture drawings. This is also an important tip. If you learn how to draw poses clearly it'll help greatly with animation. We often need to exaggerate things, especially body language. Look into "Line of Action" as well. I swear it's something so simple but when I learned about it and started applying it to drawings I was like :OOOOO

Observe real life. Watch strangers you know nothing about and try to come up with what kinda person they might be, or how they feel based on what you see of their body language. Or in the case of fight scenes, watch real fight scenes or action scenes you enjoy. Study it and use as reference. Doesn't just have to be fights, sports in general can help. Athletes are CRAZY dynamic!! Look at some photos... like, how does our body even move like that!?

I hope that helps even a bit! :)

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nice work, thanks for sharing your art! Happy new year!

Thank you, I'm glad y'all like it! And happy new year too! 🌟

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✨ Origins ✨

New year, new art, same Sonic fixations!

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2024 – An incredible year! It’s new for me to have enough for an art recap, let alone an animated one. For years I'd been in “survival mode”, too burnt out to create anything unless it was for work.

Since the latter end of 2023 and all of 2024 I've been kinder to myself. I understand how I work better, figured out what works for me more. Embraced more of what I enjoy and found that spark again. I'd like to build on all I've learned, but if I fall short that’s okay too.

Thank you to everyone who’s found my little corner of the internet and showed immense love and support. I’m glad so many have enjoyed my lil animations and really appreciate everything so far. Unintentionally made this a Sonic-focused account, but I love all the fun and friends that’s brought along. Gives me an immense boost to keep going into next year, so I hope y’all stick around a bit longer!

Wish you all a happy new year! ✨

BONUS FOR TUMBLR: Please continue to scream and shout in the hashtags, I love that so much haha.

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your animation is amazing

You're amazing too, random citizen!

(thank you 💙)

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how much do you charge for 2d art, and how much for animation?

So sorry this answer is so late. I get spam in my inbox and I just came across this clearing it out now!

I don't have commissions sheets for my art/animation at the moment. But might make one and open comms in the future as there's been a lot interest :)

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Ready for CHAOS!!! Very excited to see Shadow Wick the Keanu Hedgehog Reeves on the big screen soon! Hope y'all are too!

I was hoping to get this lil animation cleaned up and coloured before release but I have no time, so here are the roughs ⚫🦔🔴

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🔵 Sonic ⚡ Shadow 🟠 Decided to colour and composite my earlier rough animation. There are some things imma go back and improve (the backgrounds 💀), but I'm glad I got this much done and now I need a break lol

Sorry for the low-res gifs, you can also watch this on Youtube here

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Waiting for when Sonic Movie 3's trailer finally drops 🔵⚡️🔴

I felt like animating something using the logo trailer's audio. Enjoy!

Go check it out with audio on YouTube, it's like... 18 seconds, you can do it!

Flashing CW as usual, I might like impact frames a bit too much.

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⚡ cooking in progress⚡

A little Sonic Adventure 2 / Movie 3 animation thing I've been making

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Stay cool, everyone! 💨

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Happy thoughts 🎶 Wonder what Amy's thinking about...

Couldn't resist animating my drawing a little.

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🎶 Amy 🎶

feeling the need to do some simpler drawings in-between animating

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Something's coming...

...or not, we'll see lol. Felt like posting a gif because my previous video got lost in the void lol. I don't know why videos just don't seem to be seen as much. Is there a reason? Genuinely curious.

A short lil 11 second animation here

#cw flashing #flashing #flashing cw

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Saw a tweet last week about how Sonic fans have turned "Don't Let the Party Die" into a Sonic song.

I listened and my brain goes... Shadow the Hedgehog, but if the game had an anime opening

Might keep going, I have an idea of where to take this. We'll see.

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