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Clip 4I animated this in Harmony using both straight ahead traditional drawing and some tweening Flash type tricksof course you couldn't get lines like this in Flash-not easily anyway. Once I got the whole scene set up and the main drawings done, most of the rest were drawn clean in 1 shot with no real roughing neededI moved the head up and down using the camera peg in Harmony on a 12x beat. the

Inking In Harmony

I roughed this character's body on 2 layers1) Body2) arms (because I wanted to overlap the timing of his arm with his bodyThen I made another layer above the 2 rough layers, just for my cleanupsYou can turn off individual layers and just see the clean up. I go back and forth to check everything. One problem is that the layers underneath are just as dark as the layers above so it makes it hard to

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Inking and cleaning up in Harmony

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I think I may have an animatic of this scene that Eric Bauza made. I can't remember if Mike Pataki did the voice. He must have...

More Wilderness Adventure Layouts

The reason to do layouts here (in America or your homeland) is so you can create custom acting.By "custom" I mean creating original poses and expressions that only fit the particular scene and story you are working on.If you are just gonna use stock prefab model sheet poses and expressions, then there really is no reason to do layouts in the country. You might as well just send the script

Storyboard To Layout

Here are a handful of storyboard panels from "Wilderness Adventure", one of the firs Ren and Stimpy stories written. The cartoon was rejected 3 times in a row by hippie ladies who hate Republican men.people ask me sometimes what the difference is between storyboards and layouts. These few storyboard panels turned into 34 layout poses.Here are the first few.Layouts are where I tighten up the poses

The Magic Of Magic Slates

Whoever came up with the Magic Slate must have been a genius - or a witch.Remember the thrilling sound it made when you ripped your drawings into oblivion?Somewhere behind a black hole at the center of the universe are a billion drawings made by children around the world. I hear their ghastly moans in my dreams.Do you think it's odd that the largest Christian civilization in history encourages

Previews Of Some Work I am Doing In Harmony

Here is a clip from a station ID that is airing on Adult Swim.Elephant Pencil Test, animated by animation giant, Mike KazalehWhen we first started using Harmony, we animated on paper and scanned it in. This was somewhat helpful in making the transition from what we were used to, to animating completely on the computer.Elephant Final, tweaked in HarmonyOnce some of the paper animation was in