It all began as an animation obsession a couple of years back, but I just didn't have the time to finish it. There is an opening sequence that I was always very pleased with. See it: Milkman. Anyway, it should be a fun, easy going thing to write and een if I don't win it will just be an exprience to remember! It might be set in London, with a very clichéd, evil/cackling dude.

Milkman must stop the menacing Postman and his boss, Businessman from taking over the city; Policeman, Fireman and Pizzaman are under threat.

Should be interesting. :)

PS: In the cover art, Blink is just my YWS name! A lot of people have cover art fever at the moment.

Well now you can easily abbreviate Spazy Endless Entertainment (New name for Spazy.) to S.E.E. Anyway, to the big stuff, there is nothing better then just getting a good laugh at when some animated guy does something funny. I am going to be making an animated series of 'Meet Bob (and his random life.)' Bob is shown below in my ad for Meet Bob:

More info later.

Du 7 octobre au 20 décembre 2008, toutes les bibliothèques de la Communauté de communes Moine et Sèvre vous embarquent pour une balade littéraire à travers six capitales européennes : Amsterdam, Barcelone, Dublin, Prague, Rome et Stockholm. Contes, ateliers créatifs, apéros-lectures, découvertes musicales, projection, jeux et dégustation : tout un programme pour vous faire voyager !

Cete animation vous est proposée à l'occasion de

There were a few complaints, quite rightly, about my Sarah Palin caricature. It was too kind and flattering to a woman upon whom I did not wish to bestow kindness and flattery. I read today that she doesn't even need glasses but wears plain lenses to appear more intelligent. This could be entirely untrue, but I really want to believe the worst of her.

Anyway, I hope this redresses the balance.

It harks back to a very different time in Ireland. More certainty, fewer questions, perhaps. Whatever the case, the twists the kids put on the stories were delightful. Note the strong Dublin accents! 

Is it me, or does John the Baptist look very like Chris de Burgh?

Eh bien pourquoi pas !

Entre l'organisation de l'événement qui demande un peu de gestion de son agenda personnel (préparer les invitations à J-20, les envoyer à J-15, ...), la réalisation d'un joli (et si possible bon) gâteau, et surtout ... les animations pour toute cette petite équipe qui sait très bien qu'ils n'ont pas à se tenir aussi sagement que dans une salle de classe ... pourquoi ne pas prendre un petit cours après tout !

En fait, pas besoin de chercher, vous pourrez trouver ICI un cours sur l'organisation d'un anniversaire. Bon, ce n'est pas sanctionné par un diplôme, mais le sourire des enfants lors de la fête fera office de récompense... et la fierté que vous pourrez en retirer aussi ...

Par ailleurs, vous pouvez également discuter des éléments d'organisation sur un forum dédié : idées d'animations, etc, ...

Les idées ne manquent pas mais en général, on ne les trouve pas au bon moment... et pas toujours facile de composer avec les enfants invités : garçons, filles, âges, centres d'intérêt, ...

Vous avez la parole pour discuter de tout ça...

this is what you can get from there

• stick figures
• animations
• forums
• links

VC Designs is a store that sells animations, dances, poses tatoos etc .. they are starting getting into business but they are doing things pretty good! ..and also their prices.

We all love poseballs and anims to spend time with our couple ..so why you don´t come and look around ?

VC DESIGNS  slur

blog

Louis and his family introduce themselves and Louis attacks people with his FOOT.

Aaaaaahaaahaaa!

Badgers

I just finished making two brand new poses today!! I finally finished vending them in the store and they are ready for sale right now. I am hoping you like them, I particularly like the pose called Touched (image above), I think it's kinda sexy.

The second new pose I made is called Need, I have a little trouble recently thinking of new ideas, so if anyone out there has any suggestions for something they would like to see, then please drop me a line by commenting on this post or my own blog at http://slposes.blogspot.com/

You can also pop by my store Masquerade to try all of my poses out!

Cartoon Character design in flash

The following step by step tutorial describes how to create a vector based cartoon character in flash from a hand drawn concept.

your cartoon character once created will be ready to be animated in flash or after effects for a web or broadcast animation project.

For this tutorial you will need

- a wacom tablet & Flash CS3

• Step 1:

start with pen and paper to create your character.

• Step 2:

Scan artwork / hand drawn character.

• Step 3:

Open flash / create a new scene (eg:800X800) and import scanned image onto the timeline

file/import/import to stage

(if necessary convert your scanned file .tiff into a .jpeg)

• Step 4:

Lock the layer containing your drawing and mouse right click the layer to turn it into a guide.

Now create a new layer to start drawing !

• Step 5:

Look into your tool panel and choose how to draw your character, there are several ways to do this and obtain different line style , you can use your wacom tablet and draw free hand using the brush (click the brush tool to adjust settings)

In this example we are going to use the bezier tool (the one that looks like a fountain pen). if you click over the bottom right corner of this tool you will notice a drop down menu including 4 selectable options:

• open tool
  
• add anchor
  
• delete anchor
  
• convert anchor

• Step 6:

Go around the head with the pen tool, left click to insert anchors in corners or delete anchors using back arrow key.

Check out shortcuts shown next to the tools (in brackets) .

Now using the free tool, adjust the lines over artwork tracing .

• Step 7:

Repeat the same tracing principles for each items of your character,

Make sure that you create a new layer for each elements of the composition ( head, ears, eyes, mouth etc..)

if you hide the layer used as a guide you should see how is the compositon coming together.

• Step 8:

Once all your outlining is done , you can start the coloring of your character , closed up shape can be filled up using the bucket.

if you run into trouble filling up shape because there they aren't fully closed use the gap size tool , this could help.

Step 9:

open the color tab and experiment with gradient to give volume to your shapes.

In the color tab Select type:linear

you can add as many key as needed in your color grading.

Control the angle/spread of the gradient using the toolbox gradient tool (3rd from top, see below)

• Step 10:

Draw the eyes (only the white no pupils at this stage) select your eye layer and click F8 / click ok to convert into symbol. the eyes will be nested within a symbol as it will contain the pupils, the eyelids and the various eye states (open closed etc..)

As before within the eye symbol, create a new layer for each item (eyelid, pupil etc)

• Step 11:

Draw the Eye brow , press F8 /click OK to convert into a symbol.

Draw the Mouth , press F8 /click OK to convert into a symbol.

( once the shape are color filled you can add / clear the black outline around the drawing if needed )

• Step 12:

Now bring the finishing touch using the wacom pen and tablet, add details , shade etc..

• Step 13:

Zoom out to see the whole picture and amend your drawing if necessary.

• Step 14:

Et voila ! from your original pencil drawing you now have a vector version in color and broken down to symbols.

Ready for the next step of flash animation.

the next tutorial will show how to move onto the next step, hopefully using Flash CS4 (some really cool animation tools are coming with the new version...)

I will show how to animate using

• IK and inverse kinematics
• nested symbols containing the various state (mouth phonemes , eye states, eye brow position etc..)
• and much more..

FlashArtist.

BD et DVD

Venez découvrir ou redécouvrir vos héros jusqu'au 31 octobre

I also printed some limited edition t shirts today that we will have for the Montreal show and there are only 25 (!!) of them, so hope to see you there....

SECONDLY: For all you people staying in Toronto this weekend for Nuit Blanche - check out Kat's animations that will be playing in the TTC stations across the city alllllllll night. Read more info HERE.

xo
FCL

The web cartoon is becoming a Nickelodeon show...hrmmmmm.

Beuh, kenapa tiba-tiba sudah habis deadline pengiriman?

Ooh, apakah tahun depan masih ada kesempatan seperti tahun lalu?

Januari 2008 lalu adalah Acara Penganugerahan CAMS Award 2007, kebetulan sekali Tekaceria Studio dapet tempat 5 besar untuk kategori PSA Umum. Walaupun gak menang, tapi senengnya luar biasa... Ketemu pakar, praktisi, dan pengusaha2 animasi hebat seperti Bu Peni Cameron (direkturnya CAMS).

Tahun ini ternyata gak sempat bikin karya... Kebanyakan apa ya? Tau' deh...

Semoga tahun depan sempat deh... Juara bertahannya aja bikin lagi... Gak mau dikira nyerah nih sebenernya... Tapi gimana lagi yo?!

Ah, sudahlah... Selamat berjuang ya untuk temen-temen peserta CAMS Award tahun ini! Dan ternyata temen-temen sekampus juga lebih banyak yang ikut daripada tahun lalu yang cuma 2 tim. Good luck temen2...! :)

Ini pose-pose narcis kami sewaktu disana:

Setelah acara selesai, kami sempatkan ambil gambar moment bersejarah ini. Hehehe...

Ini di penganugerahan SET-Global Warming, bareng Pak Garin Nugroho.

Ini di penganugerahan UrbAnimation 2008, bareng Pak Chandra, sutradara Janus Prajurit Terakhir.

di UrbAnimation 2008 juga, ini bareng pak Dwi Koen, komikus terkenal Indonesia kita. Dan Mas Wawan (Wiryadi Dharmawan) Pinkblues sang juara CAMS Award 2007.

Hehehe... kok ini muncul disini juga? Kan acaranya di Surabaya? Gpp deh, bonus... Hehe... Ini pas foto bareng mas Riri Reza, sutradaranya Petualangan Sherina, Gie, dan yang terbaru Laskar Pelangi. Ini waktu acara penganugerahan BPMTV-TVE di Surabaya.

Yaa, itulah pose-pose narcis kami waktu disana, maklum lah, ndeso semua... Hahahaha... Sayangnya sekarang kebanyakan personil kami sudah ganti. Yang lama tinggal 2 orang termasuk saya. Tapi kami berusaha terus untuk produktif berkarya... SALAM ANIMASI!!

Tegar Ariprabowo - Editor Tekaceria Studio

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