DIY Animation

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YouTube video by Dave Merson Hess / DIY Animation Club ACME Peghole Alignment with OLM Peg Hole Stabilizer

New tut -- Batch align scans of frames drawn on ACME-punched paper, for free, with OLM Peg Hole Stabilizer! If you animate on paper and have been aligning your scans manually, you need to see this:
youtu.be/2a2RkdmRkqw #animation #traditionalanimation #animation2d #acme

Green St. Pictures swings for the fences and connects (as usual) 🙌

For L.A. folks, Remainders in Pasadena is amazing (hat tip to Derek QXQX for the tip) remainderspas.org

I have not -- I don't have an iPad. Ask @petersteineck.bsky.social? My mobile setup is Macbook Air + Intuos Pro Medium.

Yeah! It's solid. From a solo/indie developer too.

What do you use for cleanup? More and more, I use the linework from RA as final. I made a couple brushes out of scans of tech pen. Brush format for RA is just a png.

You're going to love it mariano! Works on desktop too. Animating in Adobe apps make my old ass laptop's battery die so fast. I can animate in Rough Animator at a coffee shop with no outlets, seemingly forever.

Each of your frames is saved as a transparent png. That means no need to export. Just delete the .ra from the project filename, double-click and you'll see one folder named after each of your layers, each one containing a png sequence. Import those seq's directly into AE for compositing.

Don't tell TV Paint, but I've been hanging out with Rough Animator quite a bit lately. Super clean UI. Minimal system requirements. MacOS/Windows/Android/iOS. $8 (one-time fee). www.roughanimator.com

you can take 10 minutes a day to Know What's Going On. after that, my sincere advice is to protect your energy, then take an action along this spectrum based on your best assessment of your own capacity:

physical/mental self care--educating yourself--finding community--organizing--direct action

YouTube video by mnstudio Pure Animation for Now People by Mark Neeley (soundtrack by Mark Mothersbaugh)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kvam...

Reminder y’all, Common Side Effects airs tonight on Adult Swim at Midnight. It’s been pushed a lot by the AS Marketing, is produced by Greg Daniels & Mike Judge, and is created by Joseph Bennett and Charles Huettner (Scavengers Reign)

DO NOT SLEEP ON THIS SHOW!!

Still a lot of animation folks impacted by the fires who need funding! Link in my bio and here: tinyurl.com/ToonFireFund

YouTube video by Adult Swim FULL EPISODE: Plants | Off The Air | adult swim

Our whole dang episode we made for ADULT SWIM'S OFF THE AIR IS ONLINE! I had such a fun year of pulling this together & tagging in as many folks as I could. Thank you so much to everyone involved. I hope yall dig it and that these types of projects continue to happen in the future 🌎

For my fellow cartoon band enthusiasts -- you need to check out doodbuffet:

YouTube video by Dave Merson Hess / DIY Animation Club Graph Paper Grid Line Removal in Photoshop

New tut! Instant graph paper grid line removal in Photoshop. www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0Fk... #animation #2danimation #traditionalanimation #backgrounddesign

Read the previous installment here:
diyanimation.club/modular-back...

Get the presets here: davemh.gumroad.com/l/tvpaint-...

Part 1 of my tutorial series on creating modular backgrounds for animated projects. This first video in the series covers scan prep in TV Paint. (For Part 0,... Modular Backgrounds 1: Scan Prep in TV Paint

New tut in the modular backgrounds series. Plus free TV Paint fx stack presets. #animation #indieanimation #tvpaint
youtu.be/CtbfSAoHEXw?...

Loose Fables screening poster

Loose Fables will have a digital window for a few days, Dec 15 - 17. This was such a great screening! Good vibes and so many unusual animated adaptations of fables (also -- I made the key art for this poster variant).

Hit the bell here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QHH...

Ah dang, best of luck with this move!

Bon voyage Aaron!

The Creator's Guide to Comics Devices is OPEN!!!!!
comicsdevices.com
An online library and meronomy of visual-narrative devices that are used in the medium of comics and other sequential art.
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Shocking!

Bad Guy With a Gun | Shortverse Mark’s ex asks him to pick up their daughter after school tomorrow. A lot happens until then.

Newly released! "Bad Guy With Gun", by Matthew Cassani
www.shortverse.com/films/bad-gu...

I'd argue this is why we're seeing generative fill with text-based prompts in Photoshop, while Select Subject (a more mature feature, but one that assumes a certain user) barely works out of the box.

For example, tools for small businesses (mentioned in the day 1 keynote) that will allow them to avoid hiring designers and illustrators altogether.

Takeaways from Adobe MAX so far:
Adobe has already captured the market for skilled creative professionals. The only way to expand the empire any further is to buy up competitors (e.g. Figma), and to spin up AI prompt-based tools that remove advanced skill as a requirement for using Adobe apps.

Spellbook Airbrush v2.0 Duotone Shaders sample illustration

v2.0 is out! New brush category added: Duotone Shaders. Set your duotone via your foreground and background colors, and the brushes will mix them as your paint, in randomized ways.

poster for Overspray Airbrush texture brush set for Photoshop

Brush guide for Overspray Airbrush

I just released a new set of Photoshop Brushes. These would make a great companion to the soft round brush. A simple way to add some speckly, splattery analog character.
davemh.gumroad.com/l/airbrush-b... #airbrush #photoshop #photoshopbrushes #visdev #animationartist #conceptart