Skunk Fu - Walk Cycle - animated by Alessandra Sorrentino

[TonyTToon]

love this, I've been checkn' out walk cycles tonight and this is the best i've seen so far, great work.

[stodoe]

Nice walk cycle. It's great to see when cutout animation still can have that classic animated quality. Nice.

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[GrisDismation]

Smooth!

[FloydfanMega]

i hate this gay show. butt great job on the animation

[BillFugate]

This is really beautiful work. I'm curious about how the finished rendering on Skunk Fu was done. Was the final cleanup, the "ink and paint", all done in Flash?

[aleinatonna]

@BillFugate all flash mate :)

[jonlambe]

@BillFugate The great part about animating with these characters was that they were made with just vector paint... no lines.. so you can move and meld all the pieces. Need an inbetween? just go bend that arm you made. And they were gold for shape tweening parts. Each part of the character was separated into several layers... hands ( palm and fingers) chest ( white spot, and black mass underneath) etc. Each part was then separated into a layer inside each symbol.

[aleinatonna]

@jonlambe haha, glad you enjoyed the kits man ;) where did you animate, Topdraw or StudioB?

[jonlambe]

@aleinatonna Fatkat

[aleinatonna]

@jonlambe Fatcat, right! I felt like I was missing one ;)

[jonlambe]

@aleinatonna lol Its all good, did you help make the kits for these? if so thats so bad ass... The best character rig's ive ever seen for a show. Well thought out and it really was the best designed show for flash.

[aleinatonna]

@jonlambe I only animated the walk/run cycles, and while doing that I added more arms, eyes, mouths, tails and legs to the library. It was really handy animating with it. And it was easy especially because the characters had no outline, really smart choice. After that I started storyboarding on the show.

[DCano3D]

I love this walk cycle. very inspiring to me.

[seska4ever]

thats amazing~!

[hampoychampoy]

awesome! :)

[MichaelCapelle]

Amazing!!

[ramyun]

Oh wow, bravo! As a fellow animator i'm trying to self teach myself flash and these walk cycles are fantastic. Love the animation in skunkfu. I was very surprised to hear at first that it was all done in flash.

[heeromallari]

lolz that was a given animation for this show.. even i have this stock walk cycle.. lolz..

[flameomega1]

Wow you really made these animations for the show? AWESOME! I loved that show XD YTV ftw. :P

[aleinatonna]

@flameomega1 thank you! i'm happy you like it :)

[flameomega1]

@aleinatonna :D!

[KGirl314]

@aleinatonna oh my god really u made this for the show??!!!

[ApocTiger]

im sorry to offend you in any way but when i see that skunk all i see in my head is snapping its neck expeccially when it talks

[PengyPeny]

you should try adding more shake to the tail.Nice animation.

[FiendofDA]

did you use after effects for this? this is awesome very fluid

[aleinatonna]

No I only used flash for this. Thanks for your comment!

[FiendofDA]

your welcome keep it up its great

[PARKERx87]

Very nice work, its very fluid.

In animator too i use anime studio for animation and backgrounds.

I hope to see more of your works very soon.

[jorgemicuren]

that cycle is pretty , good luck and...

what version of  flash did you use?

[boyblue80]

theres a real nice sense of 3D here in this character...really smooth ...very impressive!

[bukurutuquex]

hey! I animated some scenes of that show! i'm an animator here in philippines and i started animating skunkfu here in topdraw! and completed it in malaysia rocketfish studio!.... hahahah! its tough to please the directors!!!!

[Yelonde]

What overseas company usually animates these cartoons, (like skunkfu and others)?

[rj377]

The walk is pretty fluid but I would like to make a suggestion. When a character does not blink you destroy all the life that you intended to create. That is in the Illusion of Life book by the masters at the Disney Studio.

[aleinatonna]

Hi, thanks for the comment. I made this walk cycle during the preproduction of Skunk Fu and it was supposed to be the animation reference for all the Skunk walks in the show, so that the animators oversea could keep a personality and style continuty for the character. This is why it doesn't need any blinks or particular facial expression.

I perfectly know the Johnston/Thomas book you mentioned, but thanks for your tip.

[cheacky2]

That is skunk from skunk fu. I watch that show. Do you like skunks?

[logonyomyface]

adobe flash?

[aleinatonna]

flash, yes.

[bashscrazy]

awesome!

ive watched a couple of the episodes

its pretty good!

[Golemoid]

no way, a walking skunk!

[focksay]

do one of rabbit

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[theperfectone121212]

agreed, his walk is hilarious enough to have him be chairman of the ministry of silly walks. (a lil' monty python reference for those who think I'm insane)

[bamapounds]

good charecter.

[thatguythatisfamous]

so ur one of the ppl who actually create the characters and move them in the scene and stuff?----sweet

[aleinatonna]

Thank you ;) Glad you enjoyed it.

[calssado]

cool!

[SapphireGirl1994]

Skunk and Fox are my 2 favorites!

[tristamakid]

Skunk Fu is my favorite show

[luigiman2696]

Man I would love to be an animater for a cartoon...Only Progam i have is piviot :P

[thatguythatisfamous]

i love to watch him walk bc it's so funny and idk y

[redchakras]

skunk is a little kid and he looks cute as a bunny.(that was a metaphor)

[blink182LIVES]

I LIKE IT

[pjlovers]

actually Skunk Fu is on CN

[KoronofHearts]

Looks like th real thing ^w^. Myah, good job:3

[GegiretsuFlavour]

So um... Is this fan animation, or is this something for the actual television series?

[aleinatonna]

It's a reference walk cycle I animated for the actual tv series.

[GegiretsuFlavour]

Yay :3! So I guess you are the animator/one of the animators? It must be very cool.

[aleinatonna]

Yes I was one of the animators at the Cartoon Saloon studio in Ireland. I did storyboard too at some point. And yes, it was very cool working on the show.

[Blackgirl1994]

How did you do it where did you do it I want to do one for a new character named Dog.

[chibirobo99999]

uhhh uh ok

[Blackgirl1994]

Ha. You're funny!!

[Rcrby525]

now*

[Appledude500]

hmm... i saw skunk fu commercial on cartoon network... is there gonna be a cartoon pretty soon or what? :)

[Rcrby525]

already was one, it was on kids WB, which is not cancelled, sicne turner owns cartoon network as well, all the shows that showed signs of interest in the nealson rating reports, are being moved over to cable partner, cartoon network

[pjlovers]

yeah skunk fu is on CN. I first saw two weeks ago so idk when it came on CN.

[victor147159]

i just watched skunk fu literally 1 min ago

XD and hes soo cute!

[fatjakajeremy]

i see the skunk where is the fu?

[atavener]

What flash program was this made on?

[aleinatonna]

Flash 8

[atavener]

flash pro 8?

[aleinatonna]

macromedia flash 8.....the one before the CS3

[aprimic]

do u use motion tweening, can u please put a tutorial on, how you animate him

[aleinatonna]

i rarely used motion tweens in this walk cycle, it's almost all traditional animation, drawn with the brush tool.

[aleinatonna]

but there's no Cat in Skunk Fu...

maybe Tiger...but no Cat :)

[Zookstar1000]

oh yeah ur rite, silly me. sory.

[Zookstar1000]

i like Cat in the series, hes like Puss n Boots from Shrek

[1gangsta20]

PUT THEME SONG!!!!

[deanbush]

Nice animation.

[hatchboi6969]

who knows what artist done the skunk fu soundtack its lairy

[aleinatonna]

wutang clan! :)

[eddief32]

It was Ghostface Killah who provided the vocal, and the backing was as Aleinatonna said, The Wu-Tang Clan!

[aleinatonna]

he he thanks! :) unfortunately I can't post any episode, but they will be released soon by BBC, TG4 and SuperRtl. Cheers!

[FoxDougan]

They're releasing them on DVD? I hope so :D

[m3rw0lf]

plz get the episodes i want to see them all

[spscwby944]

awesome.

[kafrobeat]

nice