Tengu - 2D Graduation Animation

This is my gradutation work which I made during my third year in Lybecker Institute of Crafts and Design, all by myself (except for the female voice acting).

Tools:
Layouts and animation - Photoshop CS4
Clean-up and colors - Illustrator CS4
Compostion and effects - After Effects CS4
Music - Smartsound Sonicfire 4 Pro
Sound - Protools HD

Feel free to ask questions

Category:

Film & Animation

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• anime
• 2D
• traditional
• japanese
• style
• animation
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• institute
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• and
• design
• finnish
• tutorial
• homemade
• digital
• paperless
• studio
• adobe
• photoshop
• CS3
• CS4
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• drawn
• drawing
• graduation
• final
• work
• student
• lybeckerin
• käsi-
• ja
• taideteollisuusoppilaitos

[ohikaru]

I've been wondering for the longest. What's the best dimensions to start your animation if you're doing it all purely in photoshop?

[Anim3naattori]

@ohikaru

Normally I work with 16:9 ratio + a few extra hundred pixels of slightly darkened area for "bleed".

The resolution can be anything from 1380 x 820 to 5000 x 3000. As long as it's big enough for the details and I feel comfortable with it the resolution doesn't really matter with my method until rasterize the cleaned-up vector cels, after which they should be ready for the 720p or 1080p HD resolutions.

If it's Photoshop only, then go for the higher resolutions to ensure better quality.

[stuntsquiral221]

How long did this take you? It's great, I wish it had gone for longer ^.^ I really want to get good at animating, but It's kinda sad saying that when I've only got microsoft paint and windows movie maker XD

[Anim3naattori]

@stuntsquiral221

This work was spread around about a 8 month time span. This includes plenty of school unrelated to this work, on-the-job training (again, unrelated to this project), holidays and other forms of distractions. A lot of procrastination was involved too, though I don't necessarily think of it as a bad thing. 3 predetermined deadlines were broken in the making of this animation and it was finished 24 hours before its showing, which I considered to be the *real* deadline. Challenge!

[Brettmania]

Did you hand draw the characters on paper first, then scan them in and color them?

[Anim3naattori]

@Brettmania

Drawn straight to computer with Wacom Intuos3 and Cintiq 21UX (switching between those two from time to time). I do like to draw on paper and then scan it too though, just didn't use it with this project.

Sorry for the late reply.

[KiyoCukuma]

nice what program

[BethYukiMichi1]

You have a real future for animating! :D Great!

[alypkm]

@Anim3naattori wow great thanx

[Anim3naattori]

@alypkm

Planning traditionally with pen and paper, layouts, background paintings, key animation and inbetween animation with Photoshop CS4, animation clean-up/inking, color mark-up, and coloring with Illustrator CS4, animation compositions, camera, visual effects and rendering with After Effects CS4, SmartSound music with Sonicfire 4, sound recording and editing with Pro Tools. Cintiq 21UX and Intuos3 Large as my drawing tools.

[alypkm]

what program you used ???

[Horseartist99]

amazing..... you should post more animations in the future!

[artkatya]

i love it!)

[SilverfangX777]

@hamorhage I don't think TV paint is vector, and it's a fine animation program. It emulates natural media quite nicely as well.

[LeNNaKo]

Really well done.

[VAPas123]

:O that is professional ... SUGOIII *---------*

[hamorhage]

@Brettmania I have the same question, I am thinking of using photoshop to animate but I wonder if there are better programs out there (which are not stupid vector animation sw)

[diggergong]

weo ^^ that was cool :D

[robokogei]

It is animation which moves well.

It was pleasant.

I thought that the point dealing with TENGU which is a Japanese supernatural creature was epoch-making.

[robokogei]

良く動くanimationです。楽しかったです。日本の妖怪で­あるTENGUを題材にしている点が画期的だと思いました。

[brokenfynx]

Thumbs up mate... Hope i can do good when my grad project comes in... ^_^

[frddaarchitect]

i liiikkkee it u goood dude!!!

[KwoaTV]

Do you do a business with your animation? If I were to say can you make me a animated production and is willing to pay a fair amount would you be comfortable to do business? Please contact me back to let me know. THANKS

[mulanrodriguez]

in that institute that you studied 2d animation, do the give this course online

? do they even speak all english i cannot understand much their website. but great work. and another question does tools were all the tools you used? thre's no missing one? i mean because i want to learn and i just know about the drawing programs like adobe sketch pro and paint tool sai