Tinkering with AnimeStudio

So, after messing around with some Anime Studio [Pro 9], and some yapping back&forth on twitter with the always great Lar de Souza, there was a mention[my fault entirely] of Bacon Shark.

With the Octo-shark Vs. Vegemite Girl and Sharktopus and Shark-valanche and Sharknado and Shark-in-your-eye and all the other aspiring B-movies... hellllllllo BaconShark.

Music scored by John Williams and performed by The John Williams Orchestra.

And yeah.. animating water coherently and believably is kind of a pain!

So here's an hour's worth of goofing around in AnimeStudio.
Exported to AVI, then converted to MP4 in Any Video Converter. Dropped from a 110mb file to 11mb file.

Okay, so after watching it here... WOW... issues!
There was loss of layer order...and some animation I never did [like the shark turning in the middle of the stage].  I also have no idea why the water & sky keep changing colour.. they were supposed to fade to black in the last 10 frames of animation. Issues, issues. Stuff to figure out.

So, obviously, converting the file may have done something, like losing frames, or I may have exported it incorrectly or something.

Still.. for only going on what I can figure out with the program, not too bad...
but definitely not good. Think I'll stick with the drawing and colouring thing for now until I can beef-up my chops with this program.

Pneumonia Pno More!

So this cough I'd been fighting since Christmas turns out to have actually been pneumonia.
Got some meds and am now kicking Pneumonia right in the silent-P.
One side effect is they make me dizzy.  Another is supposed to be hallucinations. So I'm really hoping all that talk about a new tv series about an animated Brids of Prey where I get to voice a couple of villains if true.
Which it isn't, because I just made that up.

Something else I've just made up is this piece here.
The always awesome Lar deSouza had tweeted something about wanting to see other artist's old works, to see how far they've come in their abilities and craft. I don't have any paper&pen sketches anymore of these guys, but figure it couldn't hurt to re-create them digitially.
Well, I've been drawing these two since I was 8 years old.  Sadly, I cannot recall the name of the "hero", but the "villain" has always been Hornible.
And if we're honest.. what can be more villainous than putting ice in someone's drink while they're off to the loo? Well, lots of things, really. But it's never the big things.. but a piled-on heaping helping of small things breaks people..especially heroes, right?

Done in Manga Studio 5 with Ray Frenden's brushes. You can pick up all of Ray's brush packs for something like $20 - completely worth it.

Colouring the Lartist

The always-a-great-guy Lar de Souza was kind enough to send me his line art & inks for a piece he's doing for a convention or some such thing - you can check out his own colours and such HERE.

I had no idea what colour scheme he would be using for anything, an didn't want to see his finished piece before I made solid commitments to my own colour schemes.  Thankfully, I only saw his after I'd already laid out my flats.

My only complaint is the line art & inks he sent weren't signed by him. I believe in giving credit where it is due, and this wouldn't have happened at all if not for his art.

So here's my colours on his awesome art:

First the flats:

And now the finished piece: