Adam Phillips Animates "Prowlies at the River"

[theMOSKTO]

es en flash MX

[nobodycaresmeimei]

Pft, that takes patience.

[HackerzInc]

lol check out how tedious things were for Adam when he used flash back then

[JuicyDBASE]

I am in awe. Drawing each frame as a piece of art is so time intensive and incredible.

[Ajxdiddy]

HE USED A MOUSE

[ifureadthisdie]

@Ajxdiddy He used a tablet.

[hornyasfuk]

yo Adam watching dese tutorials yah kinda made me have to ask this question, like prowlies @ the river was this flash only or you incorporated it with toon boom or animate pro cuz i'm a upcoming cartoonist myself and a likkle novice in flash rite yah now but if you have ne tutorials on inking ,coloring and animating movement of limbs that would be appreciated

[hornyasfuk]

wah gwaan...........animating movements with the limbs is there ne simplier way to do it

[ifureadthisdie]

@hornyasfuk Adam is doing it Frame by Frame which is traditional animation, usually the more preferred for better animation and style. If you wanna do it the other way (riggin/bonetool) in flash just make an MC for each peace, put them together however you want and set the pivot point (where the limb would turn from). Flash is based more on fbf animation, whilst other programs usually are based on rigging, if you don't wanna do it fbf then try toonboom.

[MHZNOMISS]

awesome drwaing

[Saberxwolf]

this guy truly amazes me

[NaturalAto]

What is this program he uses called?

Still Cool video I really love all Brackenwoods movies great job Adam philips.

Btw iw heard that he's gonna release a dvd soon. I wonder if it's true. If it's true i absolutely buy it xD

[Jagatia]

@NaturalAto

Adobe flash

[dragonsmith]

noo isnt flash, the program thath he used is toon boom animete pro , the cost of this programar is about 9,000 usd

[Jagatia]

@dragonsmith

It is Flash you noob ¬_¬

Read the top of the window.

[dragonsmith]

aaa okz but now he used the toon boom animate pro that value in 9,000 usd

[Jagatia]

@dragonsmith

Yeah, He stll uses both, i asked him what he prefers and he did say toon boom animate pro.

So TBAP is used more....98% of the time animating.

[dragonsmith]

=o , i'm beginner in animation and what program you recomend me , i still used flash but i think is good but i was saw many animations on toon boom and is awesome is posible makin amazing animations in flash? i hope be good animator if you would like check my chane i have 2 animations really bad jojo but i really beginner

[Jagatia]

@dragonsmith

I reccomend flash. It took me a week to master.

On my channel i have my first ever main aniamtions, they suck.

But, Right now im working on an animated short.

So stay tuned for that :)

[ifureadthisdie]

@dragonsmith Yes it's possible to make AMAZING animations in flash. But toonboom is mostly tween based, whilst flash is mostly frame by frame. Frame by Frame, is better, but a lot more work. Toonboom is just preferred because tween based is a lot easier and if you don't know how to draw maintaining proportions right then it'd give you a better result.

[dragonsmith]

@ifureadthisdie =o thankl man for take a minute to explaing me :)

[HackerzInc]

@ifureadthisdie actually toonboom is just as effective in FxF as flash or perhaps toonboom makes the Fxf process even easier than it would be in flash because of the tools it has. so please don't limit toonboom to only rigging, because I do FxF alone, and toonboom really has no limits.

[emmamations]

im pretty sure toon boom animate pro is worth 2000USD

[bohlonuts]

@emmamations its not

[mankovaman]

Adobe Flash

[PalookaLord]

If you read the fucking description you'd know.

Seriously, it's right there, maybe three centimeters away from the comment area.

[HSkald]

Kick ass!

[SquidGoneFishing]

Does that say 30 FPS O__O?

[TheGrayK]

He is making a new short Set to release this saturday but I dont know if he will have it done but it will definitely be done this month.

[OKStudios]

W O W

[icefire5689]

that's really good. it would take a lot of patience to do.

[SuperKLC]

I am a bit surprised that he didn't use shortcuts. B for brush etc etc.

Phillips is like a pioneer animator in flash because no one really cared about advanced flash animation before him.

[luckyde1]

of course people cared about advanced flash animation, it's that 10 years in the special effects department at disney australia that kinda helped him with the knolledge on how to actually do it

[gottmospahedengubbar]

This is awsome.. i remember when i first saw Prowlies at the River on Ng.. amazing

[Dragonsdaughter20]

this must take a lot of patience to do this sort of thing... its amazing...

[Haggisman0]

What does he do at 3:17 ?

[Dragonsdaughter20]

i think its a sort of grid to help him see the different shadowing and the lines around bitey...

[Haggisman0]

Nah that's what happens when you select something on flash, He uses a tool that looks like it smooths it !

[ifureadthisdie]

That's just onion skinning.

[ifureadthisdie]

It looks like he was making the outline thicker

[yenta]

patience

[TkoStudios]

awesome

[7ammuda]

what is your name

this program

[EdmanProductions]

Macromedia Flash MX 2004

[JUSTJUICE76]

He is amazing love all the Bitey Castle Stuff.

How did you manage to get hold of this footage, its so good, He just makes it look so easy.

[shamus559]

geez..he either has like the best mouse in da world.. or he's got a drawing pad... and a very steddy hand n all that

[ImInsideYou]

yes he has a drawing pad =P

[LittleLordSissy]

ya..he has a graphic tablet...

[chimpzoid26]

This is really fantastic, i love doing animation, still in school at the moment, but i use flash/toon boom/photoshop. what tablet do you use?

[Jarenjang]

tutoriall pleasee??

[sharpeblade45]

omg your amazing plz plz make a tutorial how to do that stuff plz :] ty

[Edel99]

This is truly great work! Recently I have been using the trial version of ToonBoom. And I must say, for animating cartoons it is much better than Flash! AND I LOVE FLASH!!! Sure you can do more things in Flash like games and what not. But I think Im going to buy ToonBoom...

[clintmccool]

yeah because jumping down someone's throat with such a superior attitude *is* acceptable...

[Blober112]

you don't give up do you.. wat ever..

[mywingsareyours]

... You have no right to say that he isn't creating his animations AND having a life at the same time. You don't know him personally. This is his passion, and he is doing it to make him happy. Don't say he shouldn't do what makes him happy just because he isn't getting paid. Plus, to create an animation.. This may come as a surprise to you, but you can leave the computer. He doesn't have to sit there all the way through. He can have a life AND work on it! WOAH.

[Badger3X]

Besides, Adam Philips stated himself that it took him 12 weeks to put together one of his movies, I think it was Prowlies at the Rver. Yes, that is a good deal of time, but he also stated that for 8 weeks he said he probably did about 4-6 hours a day after work, and then the last four weeks he worked crazily, 6-8 hours after work and on weekends. It's like people playing video games for 8 hours a day. Why do it unless they're getting paid for it? Because they like to do it. Same with most art.

[Blober112]

lmao! wat i mean is shouldn't he be doing other things.. maybe living life.. working (unless this is his job) coz an animation like this would take a hell of alot of time to finish!

[Blober112]

i am an animator but i think that much detail.. unless he's getting some cash for it. lol :D

[Blober112]

cool but i think thats alittle to much for just for an animaion

[chluaid]

Thanks for uploading folville, and thanks for the feedback everyone. To clear a few things up:

1. It's not timelapse. I'm using a graphics tablet (Wacom Intuos 3, 9x12)

2. The Flash version is MX2004

3. The character is mostly on a single layer, but there are probably around 25 layers in that scene, due to the many background elements (trees, sky, etc).

[mijindani]

he's a master, it's obiusly that can do a great tv o r movie work for a lot of money,,..

nice work,, great work

[Newgroundsaudio2]

Somebody has got to teach me how to do that. Thats incredible!

[mikeyg345]

its easy to animate somthing, but its damn near impossible to do it at his standards. He must be so patient :|

[oshikorosu]

the patience that this requires is unmatched. this is only one frame, not even detailed, but one frame, of thousands

[XpLoeRe]

OMFG he can make cartoons for cartoonetwork and nickelodeon :P

[mywingsareyours]

he worked for disney.

[Bedinsis]

not hard to see why.

[BaltoMovie]

You mean he WORKS for Disney,right?

Doesn't he still work there?

[LittleLordSissy]

nope, he left disney..

[Badger3X]

He already is an animator for Disney.

[StickFLashGameS]

awesome dude, fuckin awesome!

[addriannedanovski]

wow why not stop showing up and at least help those ghuys who need actual help?

[chluaid]

addriannedanovski: "wow why not stop showing up and at least help those ghuys who need actual help?"

--

uhm, you might like to check out my forum where I've been showing off AND helping people who actually need help since May 2004 ;)

[wilsondanielglobal]

Wowzah! Cool!

[storeboughtarmy]

me = ownt.

rofl.

i never want to animate again :P

[HangManFred]

I'm amazed at Adam's talent...Also how he has the patience to draw Bitey one-hundred times..

[albiokay]

i know right

i get sik of drawin stick figures a couple hundred times, but this guys amazing!!

[tietie1424]

What program did you use to do that? what do you reccomend i use to begin flash movies with?

[animationguy123]

flash

[pivotkingCX]

Flash CS3 Professional. but thats not what he used. I'm guessing he used Flash 8 or Flash MX 04 but you can get those anywhere now you have to get the first one i said

[rionhunter]

it's definitely mx '04, it says so up the top, though it's a bit blurry...

[Baalynth]

Heya People!

First, i want to make it clear, that i have no idea how animation or digital art works at all. But this video made me wonder, if this guy (or all the other animators and stuff) do these kinds of drawings with the mouse, or is it a digital pen of some sort. Because i just can't belive that somebody could be this confident with a mouse.

Thanks in advance for the answers!

[albiokay]

it must be a timelapse or something

i agree with u, no1 is that good with a mouse

its prolly shown faster than he really is drawing it

[folville]

Adam Phillips, like most digital artists, uses a Wacom graphics tablet to simulate a traditional pen and paper. Storyboarding and character models are most likely sketched out with more traditional methods, but I would not be surprised if Adam is now storyboarding digitally as well. The original .fla is created at 30fps.

[Baalynth]

Thank you!

[Rolungo]

@folville I wouldn't say most digital artists, I'd say ALL digital artists. We've hit an ear where digital is the way to go. Of course simple planning out is done with paper (at least for me it is easier) but the actual process is most definitely done by tablet. It has been the way for a couple of years now, but now it is becoming standard (especially with the tablets becoming more and more available for artists everywhere).

[rionhunter]

You can tell by the cursor that it's a tablet...

with the pressurised pen doohickey

the harder he pushes down, the thicker the brush gets...

I have a similar thing...

[Darkside2205]

@Baalynth well most people seem to like using tablets but I use a mouse and do just as well

[Scheffer92]

i wonder what framerate of the animation is, it looks like something around 20-30

anyone know?

[Seannaz453]

Well, as I remember he used to work for Disney. I'm pretty sure they use 24 fps (standard of the movie industry).. at least, that's my guess.

[Xoix23Pivot]

omg! 1 year hwith 1 video

[comiclovah]

if i could do this on flash my laptop will probably go crazy XD

[kaztor0213]

all u need is practicing

and playing with lights and details

its not that hard but

it takes time to improve the drawings

[mickXfan]

the main thing is patience and persistence really. cos those are the hardest things to actually achieve.

[villainousturtle]

I am a BIG fan of adam's stuff. You can see his influence in a lot of my work. He works really slow, and yet he gets his stuff done fairly quickly. I think he may be a bit of a perfectionist, 4 minutes for a frame? I know this is more sloppy, but I made it in a day, similar style. I draw frames really fast and fill them in after the fact. I also use that technique of blocking things out first, though. Search:

Crippleton Craxley

watch, rate, comment thanks!

[d3stroyah]

that's the SKIIIIIIIIILL

[flarestrike]

WOW!! freaking amazing!!

[Darkflux]

I thought Adam drew Bitey by hand! Wow. Beautiful work. I didn't think the drawing and painting tools were useful until now.

[loopydoug]

he does, but he scans it into his computer so he can color and detail it. its pretty cool stuff.

[bobthedwarf135]

actually he draws it with a wacom tablet.

[ageshero]

looks so easy, but mostlikely isnt , you gotta have lots of nice equipment. pfft, if i new how to use flash mx and all its features, i could find out how to make a clear hologram of the previous picture or something, most of the time i draw stick figures. lol

[Smashedsmurf]

You could never do this. Trust me.

[chronical]

dude.. its not dificult to animate a cartoon figuur using flash trust me, it wil only take you some time. but this is a master work even i with my drawing skills can't compare myself with this dude here on the video, he is realy gOoOD!! i mean he is realy good on details

[pinkaznpwnage]

this is an excellent example of a masterpiece in the works. that looks pretty hard to do.

[pr0t0z]

SURRENDER TO THE TALENT!!

[ralfsolo]

Impressive... did you draw all directly on screen ?

[tdk7086]

ye are the master,Adam philips. this video is worth like 1 month worth of classes for me.

and btw fufufu fcku

[warhawk]

what program is that in the end he is drawing in its not flash..

[newvolkain5]

what amount of smoothing was that?

[7raczyk]

That was amazing, I always have had huge respect for him, for his extremely high quality flashes. It takes hell of a lot of patience and skill to make anything like him, and like wow.. this video is 4 minutes long and all he did is not even finish a complete whole second of the final flash, that's the cost of detail. Did anyone notice the amount of custom colours he has? that was insane.

[msndokaralho]

Words cannot describe what he does. Maybe photos, but no words....

[BrandoBurger]

i know a wod that can describe it.... awsome

[andreewww]

awesome is not enought actually.

[EbonMaster]

agreed, awesome isnt even close...maybe i can invent a word...how do you like blaceeme?

[andreewww]

You Fail. lolz, nvm.

He's godly, that's all i can say.

[chewface]

Wait wait wait......is that all drawn with the mouse? Or does he have one of those pencil digital boards, if you know what I mean by that? Seriously, the speed of the lines he makes and the accuracy...he's gotta be using one of those digital pens....and if thats the case I still love the guy, but have lost some respect.

[msndokaralho]

No! Of course he uses pencils digital board. It's almost imposible to get this perfect lines in a mouse.

[chewface]

I don't mean to sound all high and mighty, because Adam is THE MAN, I can't even attempt to come close to what he does....but I do like to consider myself a good artist, and all the Flash's I have done I do with just the mouse. I thought he did the same. With the digital pen it's so much easier and faster.....so his work isn't as surprising anymore. Yanno? I should get one too.....but dang they're expensive.

[sfv666]

At 3.14, what does he do? The part where he changes the line by clicking a few times.

[NeoMaster]

Ink bottle. It makes the line thicker.

[1pk1]

I hope that he will show how to do frame by frame like he does in his to be published book on aniation

[Alex33338]

Adam Phillips is the best flash artist by far!!

//Big Fan :D

[DanielJDunn]

Thanks for the comment, but thats not what it seems to be i understand what your saying but when he does it, he blends all he rough sketchlines so they seem all joined perfectly, you can see how he has done this when he zooms in on the hands... So does anyone have any other suggestions to what he does, as said he seems to press a hotkey/function of some sort. Thanks for any help.

[DanielJDunn]

Sorry! Its at the exact 3:18, Please could some one tell me!

[spindlerat]

Select the black cursor and drag the lines to bend/stretch them.

[DanielJDunn]

Hey, does anyone know what he does at about 3:30 he selects the frame and then sort of joins together his lines...

What does he press?

[peixeaquatico]

loko

[TheSenseofTouch]

So that's how you do it..

[AlexRawlings]

Oh man that is a lot of work. Worth it though as his animation is fantastic !

[rindolphus]

I wanna see him do shadows on his characters. That troubles my mind so much.

[rindolphus]

I'm in awe.

[SiimMa]

Where did you get this? AMAZING, i LOVE ADAM PILLIPS TO DEATH! He's my HERO!

[TheDailyCrumb]

wow! thanks for uploading this

[rbecus]

thanks for showing us a few tricks. cheers!

[Trentsickle]

amazing! how did you get this?

[Diphallia]

Aaaah, you must love adam or you're a retard. Thanks for uploading the video!

[Spartan608]

It's insane how simple he makes it look. Nice Vid.

[snorreproductions]

I love this guy! HE IS SO COOL!!! super good...