Ambitious Animation Batteries: Bonus Mission
Before I dive into a brand new animation, I wanted to add a little extra to my animation from the last cycle as I ran out of time since it took me a while to create the Eye of Cthulhu. I added around an extra second of animation time, but I feel like it ties […]
Ambitious Animation Batteries: Mission Complete
The full shebang is here! My animation is all finished and ready to be watched by you. In this scene, the overpowered player thinks nothing of the Eye of Cthulhu, chilling out in the stary night sky daydreaming. But then the boss battle goes down! This may be a short animation, but the leg movements […]
Ambitious Animation Batteries: Staring into the Eye of Cthulhu
The preparation work for this animation took a lot longer than I thought but with tedious adjustments and patience, the drawing above is what I created. In Adobe Illustrator, the trace image tool that I initially used led to a lot of miscolored parts and deformed sections. Because of that, I had to do a […]
Ambitious Animation Batteries: Fully Operational
Inspired by Youtube animations, I have made my first animation for the WAVE. An anti-aircraft battery has received a signal for some utility support. Failure is not acceptable in this upcoming mission. The results in this video will reveal the winner of this quest to dominate the airwaves. Stay tuned!
Ambitious Animation Batteries: Powering Up
Powering up… Checking internal integrity… Scanning surroundings… Fully operational… Relaying message… Begin sequence! Watching short simple animations online led me to think that I could do them myself. These animations didn’t have many frames, but they were really entertaining nonetheless. I have some experience using Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Premiere to make animations, but I […]
Art of the Arts: Happy Little Accidents
My next medium is acrylic paint! In this piece, I followed a Bob Ross painting tutorial except that I used acrylics instead of the oil paints Bob usually uses. It is said that you shouldn’t use acrylics when following Bob’s tutorial, because it doesn’t work well with his ‘wet on wet’ technique. In some ways, […]
Art of the Arts: Over the Mountains
In this post, I’ve included WATERCOLOR! Unlike my previous post, the main piece here doesn’t include the previous mediums used, though I’ve included other little paintings below that do use all of the previous mediums. Before I really hated working with watercolor; it would bleed all over the paper, colors would run into each other, and […]
Medieval Fantasy: Dragon
For my last post on this column, I wanted to finally create a creature that most people would think of when they hear the words ‘Medieval Fantasy’. So, for this final post, I’ve decided to design a dragon character. For the initial sketch of the creature, I had trouble coming up with the proportions for […]
Medieval Fantasy: Mythical Horse
On my last few posts, I have been creating human/humanoid characters. In my most recent one, I made a mythical creature; for this post, I wanted to challenge myself again to make an animal character. Going off these ideas, I decided to base a character off of a unicorn (European), and a qilin (Chinese). This […]
Medieval Fantasy: Demon
One thing both Middle Age Europe and Asia have in common is their abundance of mythological creatures. There were many to choose from, but I was interested in creating a character whose alignment was on the evil side. So this time, I decided to create a demon character. When trying to take aspects from both […]