Innovations

The face morph was the most intimidating thing for me because I couldn't figure out how to do it and that was holding me back from starting. So I just started with some messy things but it's given me a way better ida of what I want. Also was using TvPaint to animate these so there was a bit of a learning curve as well, and I'm finding there's not so many tutorials online for TvPaint, so it's a bit harder to figure things out than with the Adobe suite. So I'm imagining something in between these two

Photoshop: I like photoshop to animate because it's intuitive for me and I can do quite details drawings. It has many shortfalls though Animate: Animate does onion skinning and 'tagged' colours, where the colour changes across he whole animation if you change it in one frame OpenToonz: I really liked the idea of OpenToonz, but the user interface is dificult to navigate. I find it has a steeper learning curve than most and for the level on animation I'm working on right now, it has unnecessary steps to take just to animate, such as having a seperate drawing board from the animation board TV paint: It seems TV paint is a good combination of usability and technical proficiency. I find it harder to find decent tutorials on it but once I get the hang of it I think this is the best one for me. I like the adjustments you can make to the onion skinning and how easy it is to colour Basics Colouring Interface basics Aaron Blaise, getting into some more useful t...

Interesting looking at a combination of photographs and caricatures of both anti-Chinese and in defence of Chinese immigration. I've decided not to give my character a face, partly so I can just focus on the animation and partly inspired by a theory that a character without a face is one you can more easily imagine as yourself. This theory is used mostly in indie games, most recently in Ashen , a game by Aurora44. I really like the characters in Ashen for their simplicity and block-like style. But previously was a style in video games due to low polygon shapes. I think Ashen is bringing this back partly for nostalgia. I also find it nostalgic looking back at old video games I grew up with like the first tomb raiders or LBA 2.   Of course, I'm not doing a game, I'm doing an animation. I like this style, it reminds me of figure simplification like in life drawing