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hello beautifull scrap follower, just a few words about how i did the bike stuff for those who wants to animate.
first of all, references
also, a normal reflex is to draw things either face or profile, but as a cinematography lover and student, i try not to do it because it's flat and uninteresting, exept if it's relevant like in western duels, in religious imagery or for a ref sheet. So i chosed a classic 3/4 seen a little from the top (to avoid drawing complex background)
I used Flash for its quick and handy animation tools (even if the shortcuts drive me mad), and sketch first the bike, then the two characters in different layers. don't go in details, the most important things are the center of gravity (the butt) that i animate in priority, then the extremities (head, hands, feet) and after all that you can draw the arm legs and chest to connect all of the previous (be carefull with the elbow and knees, they must have a smooth animation too).
Draw first the two extremes called keys, key A: right pedal down and center of gravity to the right, key B: left pedal down and center of gravity to the left (basicaly the oposite of A).
Then draw the "in-betweens", in-between from A to B: right pedal in the back going up and center of gravity in the middle going up, in-between from B to A: left pedal in the back going up and center of gravity in the middle going up.
the in-between is where you put the dynamic and the style of your animation.
there you can draw over your sketch in different layers, i used the same drawing for the bike in everyframe, i just distorted it a little and redraw the wheels each time to make them look like they were spinning, i redraw each frame for the characters to create some messy windy dynamic, but i just duplicated the head because it's too hard for me to draw each time.
I exported the animation in a sequence of png and put it in photoshop to add the shadow on the ground (just put your animation in a group, duplicate and distort + add some color correction and tadaa), and the shadow on the characters (animation adjustment layers in pretty fun) and then i drew the background roughly, but a animation need less details than a still image in general so it's okay.
and photoshop is lot better than flash to export gif animations for internet !
FINAL ANIMATION
you should better read a good book about animation like Richard Williams' or Preston Blair's instead of listening to my messy nonsense !
this is a creative common share alike thing (so are all my drawings/animations) so you can use it for trainning
first of all, references
also, a normal reflex is to draw things either face or profile, but as a cinematography lover and student, i try not to do it because it's flat and uninteresting, exept if it's relevant like in western duels, in religious imagery or for a ref sheet. So i chosed a classic 3/4 seen a little from the top (to avoid drawing complex background)
I used Flash for its quick and handy animation tools (even if the shortcuts drive me mad), and sketch first the bike, then the two characters in different layers. don't go in details, the most important things are the center of gravity (the butt) that i animate in priority, then the extremities (head, hands, feet) and after all that you can draw the arm legs and chest to connect all of the previous (be carefull with the elbow and knees, they must have a smooth animation too).
Draw first the two extremes called keys, key A: right pedal down and center of gravity to the right, key B: left pedal down and center of gravity to the left (basicaly the oposite of A).
Then draw the "in-betweens", in-between from A to B: right pedal in the back going up and center of gravity in the middle going up, in-between from B to A: left pedal in the back going up and center of gravity in the middle going up.
the in-between is where you put the dynamic and the style of your animation.
there you can draw over your sketch in different layers, i used the same drawing for the bike in everyframe, i just distorted it a little and redraw the wheels each time to make them look like they were spinning, i redraw each frame for the characters to create some messy windy dynamic, but i just duplicated the head because it's too hard for me to draw each time.
I exported the animation in a sequence of png and put it in photoshop to add the shadow on the ground (just put your animation in a group, duplicate and distort + add some color correction and tadaa), and the shadow on the characters (animation adjustment layers in pretty fun) and then i drew the background roughly, but a animation need less details than a still image in general so it's okay.
and photoshop is lot better than flash to export gif animations for internet !
FINAL ANIMATION
you should better read a good book about animation like Richard Williams' or Preston Blair's instead of listening to my messy nonsense !
this is a creative common share alike thing (so are all my drawings/animations) so you can use it for trainning
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