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Volumes and shapes studies from live footage.

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Water FX animated for "Dear Alice" by @thelineanimation. It is a four hand shot with  Elliott Kajdan  who added the compositing beauty that plays a huge role in the final look as you can see. He also saved the day by fixing some animation issues 👀

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I wanted to illustrate the obvious concept of centre of gravity, and how it remains...in the centre of mass. It can be obvious, but when animating some shots with liquids, we sometimes dont take this in account and it can create some weird things. Plus it can be a good exercise to play with water animation, how it stretches, bounce back and forth etc...

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HOW TO ANIMATE 2D FIRE :

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This course is about how to animate fire frame by frame.

How to design fire ? how to animate it?

Fire is one of the most commun 2D effect any animation studio will ask you to create on their show. Weither you are being asked to animate a cosy chimney fire or an evil magic fireball, we are going to learn a simple way of animating fire, that will help you for any kinds of shots involving fire.

We are going to learn the very basics of physics, and how to apply these rules to stylised handrawned animation.

We want it to be simple and efficient but not cheap! We will just talk about what we need to know. Nothing more, nothing less.

NOTHING BEATS PRACTISE ! So if your first animations are not awesome, it is normal. Animation is just like music or sport: you have to practise to get better. You have to practise untill the knowledge becomes intuition.

This course is composed of videos of animation process, we will animate together :

-Fire particles and embers

-Fire rising

-Windy Fire

-Fire bouncing ball

-Fireball moving twirling

-A flame thrower shooting

We will review some animations together, trying to understand "why is that animation not working great, and why is this one awesome ?"

You will have access to some PNG sequences of my animations with notes.

We will review the main mistakes to avoid, talk about some basics rules of 2D animation (spacing, timing, exposure,...)

Required equipement:

1-A tablet,

2-A 2D frame by frame animation software (toon boom harmony is the best for this course, but adobe animate, TVpaint, procreate or Krita are fine too)

3-a treatement software such as After Effect or Nuke is a plus.

Before starting, go on Pinterest, watch "2D FX" references, watch showreels, get inspired, get motivated!

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Step by step

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Couple of splashes animated on ToonBoom Harmony

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Long time no see Tumblr ! Here is a waterfall/river animation I made on Toonboom Harmony !

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Currently working on some 2D FX tutorials. From basics of animation to complex organic effects animation. It might take a while tho... Gonna share more about it here https://lnkd.in/ervANzG

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So this loop is a remake of an old animation I did back in 2016.

the 2016 one is more looking to the basic idea of a fire than the new one.  And therefore can be more efficient for some projects more focus on communication than animation quality. On the other hand, the new one is more appealing, volumetric. Gonna try a mix the two in 2022

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Fire or....rose ?

Just for fun handdrawn animation made on tvpaint

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Waterball animation, made frame by frame on tvpaint

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Here is one of the few water shot I animated for the movie  Klaus. It is straight ahead animation like I use to animate vfx. While in production, you often don't have the time to go that far in details. For this one we luckily had time to try stuff and go a bit crazy so I took that opportunity and enjoyed every single minute spent on that shot...

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So glad I can finally share with you the showreel of the VFX work I did on Klaus at The SPA Studios (Sergio Pablos Animation). Major part of my role was to design and animate the magical wind that leads Klaus through his journey. Almost two years of work surrounded by amazing talents. Shout out to the rest of the team Nicola Finizio, Silke Czarny, claudio pacciarella, David Wegmann-Serin, Oscar COTTE, Brice Maleo, Steve Mcdermott, mouloud oussid and our dedicated supervisor José Antonio García Villameriel ! We all learnt a lot from this experience Hope you will like it ! 

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Things are going serious betwwen clans in Klaus...

Tis is the moment Jasper is introduce to local traditions of Smeerensburg

One of the most enjoyable shot I animated at The Spa Studios

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