Happy Birthday Dad!
I was digging through some old photos in Ottawa and discovered the evolution of my Dad.
Here he is below joining the airforce at 10 years old. He had to lie about his age and say he was 11.
Being a hardy Slav and raised on a farm in the depression, he matured early.
Here he is at 12, ready to kick some man ass.
One of his first jobs for the Royal Canadian Air Force was to search for
National Internet Loon Celebration
I love when people use other people's blogs to talk about stuff that has nothing to do with the topics in the post or to vent their anger at people who don't have their own blogs. "I know! I'll write on John's blog about someone else I want to heckle!" Smart.
I sometimes just delete the loon comments as a courtesy to the readers who are actually interested in talking about what the post is
Thanks!
Hey thanks for the tip on rotating
I'm gonna go try the command-alt keys now
I couldn't find that in the toonboom shortcuts menu
I still can't figure out why they put that image in front of what you are doing though
The Rotating Tool irritation
I love using Toonboom Animate but it does have some mysterious irritations, like the rotating tool:
Irritation 1: There is no key command for it. You have to constantly interrupt your drawing by going to the toolbar and dragging out a menu and dropping down to get the damn tool
Irritation 2: It puts an image of an animation disk on top of the drawing so you can't see what you are doing
Work from the constructed poses
Here are 3 poses from a layout scene, drawn in pencil
scanned very strangely but ignore that
Before inking, (or animating or anything else) it helps to understand the larger forms that are controlling the action.
I make a layer in Toonboom where I race the big forms over the layouts
This way inkers, animators, inbetweeners can see what is happening without getting lost in the
INKING: Ink the forms, not just the lines
I'm working with a bunch of inkers and finding that I have to explain the same concepts multiple times to each artist individually. So I figure if I just put the tips up here where everyone can see them, maybe it will save me time explaining so much.
This pencil layout is lively and almost constructed. It's slightly disconnected so let's enhance it through the miracle of construction.
I Hate The New Blogger Interface
Blogger must have decided it was losing money so it redid its interface to make it much harder to use. I think they want us to all stop using it, which I am considering because it is so much harder to use now.
Now everything takes multiple steps and you can't find anything without dragging down all these drop-down menus.
I love this bug: you can't backspace from your new
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