some improvisation

[slowtiger]

Something I really like in TVP is the speed at which I can create reasonably good-looking animation. This was done in about 3 or 4 hrs yesterday, inspired by this drawing by Elliot Cowan:
https://twitter.com/ElliotCowanYes/stat ... 40/photo/1 (with permission).
I'm still experimenting a lot with different ways to make everything look organic and spontaneous. Background and outlines are solved problems now, and I think I have a solution for a coloring with "living textures" here. I made a brush of 7 bitmaps of the "hatching" and let it go randomly through them. The birds are first colored completely white, then this layer is used as a mask for the textured stroke, finally I erase the eyes from that again. Fast work, of course only possible with a character like this. But so much fun!


https://vimeo.com/666993718

What do you think? Shall I make this into a complete film?

[DenX]

That's a cool style. In my opinion it just miss some sound FX to be fully expressive.

[slowtiger]

As I said, it's just improvised now. If this is going to be a film (and Elliot likes the idea), I'll do really good sound as well (as I usually do). Maybe something with synthesized bird calls like Oskar Sala did fro "The BIrds".

[DenX]

Sounds nice.
For some reason I imagine it like short comedy episodes such as Cocoshaker or La Linea.

[hooraycat]

This looks so much fun, the art is translated very well into animation as well, great job!
I think you nailed the organic and spontaneous style as well. Would be great with a recording of how you made it, you seem to have used some neat methods to achieve this look.

[slowtiger]

So the description in the first post is not clear enough? It's really not more than that.

[hooraycat]

Probably is, I might just not be too quick on the uptake, sorry.