M is for Riot: Tumblr Animated GIF's

I've joined Tumblr recently and had thought of posting the short animation project I did last year. At last I found out a way to make gifs that weren't too tiny or pixelated. So I've decided to upload these here first to see how they look in a row. If you would like to see it in its entirety with music and sound, you can of course look at the YouTube video here:

Animated gif of M is for RIOT: animation

Enjoy a gif version of my animation. I have a larger format, but most websites don't seem to accept files as large as 12MB.

M is for Riot: animation

Based on page two of M is for RIOT: comic

I've become a big fan of Attack on Titan recently, and really admire how concise and clear the action is during fight sequences. Oftentimes on other shows, fight scenes are too messy and chaotic. I wanted to animate a scene that had demonstrated the same clarity of action as is found in AoT.

Aimation was roughed in Macromedia Flash then cleaned up in Paint Tool Sai. The tradigital method used here was, for me, a nice break from the exhausting work on My Little Pony (symbol-based Flash). This is the first animation made entirely on a Cintiq Companion, and took 2 1/2 months of my free time.

Sound effects were sampled from SSFIV, SSBB and other sources.

Fight

It's that time of year... Vancouver will have its gay pride march in the beginning of August.

We have our rights now, but sometimes we forget what a difficult road it took to get there. We forget that there are other countries that do not have the same rights and freedoms that we take for granted. And we forget that there are always other forces that want to take our rights away from us. The fight is far from over. Remember to protect your rights and freedoms. 

I would like to do a variation of this picture using a more limited colour palette soon.

Sketches of Sammick

F Sharp

Bitch Please!

I've been doing the odd sketch once in a while since my last post (When was that again?). Work is so busy nowadays, and it really does take a lot of my creative energy to do my job well. But sketching my own stuff does sometimes readjust my mind. I should make more of a habit of it.

M is for RIOT: comic