SethX's stuff

yeah sounds great!

15 minute lighting practice : http://www.fileize.com/view/759c2dce-de6/
... it didnt seem worth putting on the front page.

4 hour explosion practice. http://www.fileize.com/view/9c4a1efe-c92/
worthy.

I gotta say, your explosions are actually really nice, especially for your skill level.

But I gotta say, that beam you do before the explosions... it's so cheesy, I hate it man please try another effect.

lol i love the cheesyness. but ill make it more detailed if you want... like... more realistic.

That beam actually works if the rest of the animation style supports it. Like I said before, Kanada-style. The shit you do is fast-paced and stylizaed enough for it anywei. Edyrem, what about the yellow beam of light do you find cheesy? Do you find Kanada-style organic FX cheesy as well?

Okay, here's my attempt at doing a little pre-explosion spark:

Yeah thats what i was thinking. do something more.... detailed. just because i think mine is a bit TOO cheesy as well.... another bad thing is, i will probably NEVER spend that much time on an explosion. ever.

You can always just create a set of explosions and use them more than once in different sizes, flipping a movieclip horizontally already makes it look like a completely new animation.

^ Solid tip. If you work on making your animations really "generalized" while you're actually animating them, you're investing into the future because when you need a similar effect again, that generalized animation became a little bit vague enough to fit into the second situation too.

so your saying i should devote a day or two only to explosions, put each one in a seperate movieclip, and reuse them for different animations? that sounds like such a great idea .-.

SO MUCH WIN AHHAHAHAHAHHHA http://www.fileize.com/view/9ad806d2-d91/
http://www.fileize.com/view/ce46992f-d9e/ <- different animation
i did alot of practices today.... also in the first anim in this post, that was spawn getting kicked in the larynx.

I kind of felt the impact in that first one. Maybe it was the sound; sounds really amplify the visuals.

Hitorio wrote:

Lol at the battle cry.
...yeah. Good hits. Throw some movements before the strikes to give us a sense of transition from one movement to the other, though. I'm also pretty sure that you're aware of how you fucked up that last hit; weheheheheheh. Your weak spot is presenting itself for me to strike! Strengthen it! Improve the skill with which you draw and your animation skills will grow into a mist of pheromones, supplemented by the fragrance of candles and incense

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I got rickrolled and I wasn't even on youtube ;n;

SethX, yeah definitely spend some time on exploshuns if you want to use a lot of them!
On your last post it was hard to tell how the 2nd anim will end up when actually created properly, but the first anim is interesting, needs moar inbetweens though!

Neon, Rick Rolls are EVERYWHERE. this is the Internet, buddy, what did you expect? lol.

alright tom! i guess ill just practice a ton... and make a fla full of explosions i can reuse...

Awesome!
While you're at it, care to do a tutorial of how you create those fancy colored explosions?
I'm sure I'm not the only one who liked those.

i mean... i kinda just watch micwizard, and then start doodling. usually when i shade explosions, i just do an opaque grey, then animate a 2d explosion ( or slightly 3d-ish) and then expand darker grey wedge shapes, crescent shapes and heart shapes inside of it. If i made a tutorial, it'd be really really sped up... cause it would take me about 2 and a half hours to animate the explosion itself ( if i was rushing) But i mean.. tutorials sound like a good idea.. i just feel like i'm still to new to give any good advice (except on effects maybe)

basically just explain how you pick your colors and where you decide to put the different colors, the red and yellow/ white-ish colors as well.
screen capture or sped up timelapse should do it.

Im loathe to give away Felix's secret... but ill do it. ILL DO IT.

<3, awesome bro!

i did it... i put it in the art section though... maybe you can move it to the correct section?

Sorry, wasn't on Psuda. If there's some admin or mod stuff that needs to be done, either send me a PM here so I get an email or just add me on msn

Tomvanharmelen@hotmail.com

im too lazy to download / make an msn . maybe you and edyrem should add me on skype . " Sethxmccloud"

animated some TNTL. http://www.fileize.com/view/bccd4fde-00b/

I originally thought you meant the teenage mutant ninja turtles..
but that was wrong.
anyway, what's TNTL?