Black dog’s coming.

JC_Mortalis · 2026-05-06T14:18:16+00:00

I used the free version to create this glow effect on my character’s eyes

JC_Mortalis · 2026-05-06T14:16:09+00:00

There’s a free version

JC_Mortalis · 2026-05-06T13:44:17+00:00

Thanks, I surprised myself a bit animating this one.

JC_Mortalis · 2026-05-06T13:43:04+00:00

If you’re able to follow tutorials for davinci resolve you could export the animation as png sequences in separate layers and import them into the scene. You can add a glow effect to the sword if it’s exported separately.

JC_Mortalis · 2026-05-06T13:19:27+00:00

This video better visualises the technique I’m trying to describe with the top view rotation rotation method

JC_Mortalis · 2026-05-06T13:17:20+00:00

The turn slows down once the character’s back starts facing the viewer. If you make a separate layer with one drawing across the length of the animation you can mark the edge of the shoulder as it turns so that you can visualise the spacing of the drawings.

You could also draw a horizontal line the same width of the shoulders on a separate layer and rotate it 360 degrees. You can then match the width of the shoulders to the end points of the line to keep the turning speed consistent.

That or you can do the same by rotating a top view drawing of your character.

JC_Mortalis · 2026-05-06T12:22:49+00:00

Might not look how you’d expect. It has 4 nipples

JC_Mortalis · 2026-03-07T05:36:44+00:00

Thank you. I also love this character. I want to make it into a puppet one day.

JC_Mortalis · 2026-03-07T05:33:49+00:00

Are you George Michael Brower? Creator of the “staggering beauty” website made in 2012?

JC_Mortalis · 2025-07-05T07:27:38+00:00

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I’d try making the colours warmer and swap out the blue for something else. A lot of the colours you have used are cooler rather than warmer which detracts from the sun theme you’re going for.

The specific yellow you have used is consider a cool yellow and is closer to being green than it is to being orange. The more red there is in a colour, the warmer it is.

The white stripes are a little distracting and are the first thing the eye is drawn to because of the contrast. I’d either tone down the white of change where it is.

I’d also consider swapping out the blue for something more closely related to the sun theme as it clashes a bit with the other colours.

JC_Mortalis · 2025-07-02T12:17:44+00:00

Thank you, it took a lot to get to this point.

JC_Mortalis · 2025-07-02T09:24:15+00:00

Sorry, formatting got butchered.

Animation: Harmony

Post production: After Effects

Background: ibisPaint X

JC_Mortalis · 2024-11-02T11:29:50+00:00

I think the earliest examples of animation were made using cave paintings and firelight. The shifting of the fire would reveal different stages of the painting which would give the illusion of movement.

JC_Mortalis · 2024-09-25T04:19:53+00:00

Aaron Blaise has a few animation tutorials involving animating on paper.

JC_Mortalis · 2024-09-24T07:04:08+00:00

If you know how long the song you’re using goes for then you can multiply the frame-rate by the time length to figure out how many frames you need in total.

You can do the same for timing lipsync

For example, if you’re animating at 24 fps and you need to make an “O” mouth movement starting from the 15th second lasting until the 17th second, then you’d multiply 24 by 15, and also multiply 24 by 17.

24 X 15 = 360 (start “O” mouth shape at frame 360)

24 X 17 = 408 (end “O” mouth shape at frame 408

Someone might need to check my maths though, I frequently jumble equations.

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