Polar Bears

[harbar3000]

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[Scarpelt199]

Nice work you did great

[smartbluecat]

Lovely work! I love the transitions. Is it rotoscoped?

:o)

[anim8iain]

Hello Smart Blue Cat

this was based on sketches done quickly at Edinburgh Zoo, and memory. No rotoscope. Not that there's anything wrong with rotoscope, but it's not how i did these!

[smartbluecat]

Very impressive.

:o)

That polar bear was looking pretty sad last time I saw him in person. You really captured the weight very well. I checked out your site and would urge any other animators and lovers of animation reading this to do the same. This guy is a pro.

[la1880]

You are so talented!! beautiful!!! 5000*

xoxo

[KineLomX]

Oh cool. Are you british? i like british people =D

[anim8iain]

yes, I am - thank you!

[KineLomX]

I live in america. Although i would love to visit england. Is it cold?

[anim8iain]

I'm not sure what the weather is like in England at the moment, but here in Scotland it's been quite sunny - honest it has!

[KineLomX]

wow..

[Vickymerfur]

Hehe generalisations are fun =D

[OakPoaky]

Is it possible for us to download it? It's terrific.

[anim8iain]

thanks for your comment! I've no idea how people download things from YouTube. I wouldn't really want to encourage it though! :-)

[Pikapoo1]

this is really neat. im actually thinking of doing one myself, but i dont have the time!

[edrehn]

That's so cool, your a great artist

[RipRabbitGurl]

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[batduck]

excellent work

[menoweed]

magnificent, geesh

[keiji93]

excellent

[sophiebro]

Oh, thats so pretty.

[fifidoodles]

wow!!! thats so cool!!!! umm poor polar bears:(

[DGK1058]

polar bears pretty cool if all u used were paper and pencil

[cherry30023]

Wow, I just love those polar bears! Nice use of shading and it's great how smooth the frames fit together.

[wasserbrunner]

very good, very good.

[wasserbrunner]

oh, and what software did you use?

[anim8iain]

Paper and pencils!

The images were imported into After Effects as a sequence. And that's all!

[jackmanthing]

Man, this is so cool!

My animations suck. I hope i can get as good as this someday!

[anim8iain]

Sadly, Polar Bears are vanishing. :-(

[CorneliusCheese]

Kinda trippy, vanishing polar bears :D Great work

[Darbyjack]

wow i imagined this taking ages

[Darbyjack]

wow nice. you would save a lot of time if it were a flash animation :P

[anim8iain]

well, I did do a similar study in flash, which is the frog you can see on my webpage. To be honest, flash only really saves time if you are retaining certain lines from one frame to the next, and these animations gain their fluidity from an original line on each frame. It's funny with animation, people always seem to devalue it if it has taken time to make! (actually, if memory serves me correctly, this only took a weekend. Fastest work I remember doing!)

[filthypepperBaM]

wow this is amazing!

[w00tally]

that's really cool! you should do a project like this in 2nd yr after the zoo - I would have animated tapirs, hiding ;) post more!

[anim8iain]

I must try and get my AyeAye up here.

[flyingfish32]

how did u make this?

[anim8iain]

Observation from life on many pieces of paper! Key frames were drawn at the Zoo, then the rest filled in from memory in the studio.

[anim8iain]

250 frames, at 1/12th of a second each.

[bryceshouse]

how many frames in this?