Earth Day animation created by Victor Paredes

Fahim · Post by **Fahim** » Fri Apr 20, 2012 4:09 am

Hi Guys,

Here’s another great animation by Victor Paredes, aka Selgin. Please feel free to send it to your friends, share it on your website, FaceBook and other social media outlets.

Happy Earth Day - Animated Digital Card

http://anime.smithmicro.com/page/happy- ... -card.html

Regards,

Fahim

AmigaMan · Post by **AmigaMan** » Fri Apr 20, 2012 6:50 am

Brilliant as ever!

A different style every time too.

Barry Baker · Post by **Barry Baker** » Fri Apr 20, 2012 9:23 am

Great animation and pretty perfect timing.

gregino · Post by **gregino** » Fri Apr 20, 2012 10:38 am

Great work, as usual!

Selgin, can you tell us about the way you manage textures ? I've tried many ways to had some on my projects but the result is not always so good...
Thank you.

InfoCentral · Post by **InfoCentral** » Fri Apr 20, 2012 3:57 pm

Happy Earth Day to you too! Now why don't I get this day off...

benecosse · Post by **benecosse** » Sat Apr 21, 2012 3:29 pm

gregino wrote:Selgin, can you tell us about the way you manage textures ? I've tried many ways to had some on my projects but the result is not always so good...
Thank you.

Yeah, me too. I'm guessing this was a mix of bitmap and vector artwork manipulated with bones.
But it's difficult to decipher the exact workflow as its done so well.

Post by **Víctor Paredes** » Sat Apr 21, 2012 4:00 pm

Hi all
Thank you, I'm very happy you liked the video. For the textures there are some tricks which helps a lot:

- It's all vector layer with the texture inside as an effect. Both fill and stroke have the same texture. The shapes have a brush applied to give it irregular borders, that makes the vector look much more natural. Also, each fill have a drop shadow effect.

- To make the textures tileable I used Corel Photopaint (but that process can be perfectly made with Photoshop or gimp). Here's a tutorial which describes de process.

- I Created a few tileable textures, then in Photopaint I changed the color of that textures to get the different colors I needed. I saved each color on a different png file. To keep the things in order, each element (pig, wolf, house, night sky, etc) have its own folder.

I think that's all

gregino · Post by **gregino** » Sat Apr 21, 2012 10:06 pm

Thank you again,
Now it seems so obvious... you're a very good teacher !

InfoCentral · Post by **InfoCentral** » Sun Apr 22, 2012 3:20 pm

selgin wrote:Hi all
Thank you, I'm very happy you liked the video. For the textures there are some tricks which helps a lot:

I was just thinking that perhaps you could actually make a animation tutorial on how you do the short video. Just the animation part and not the content creation part. That would be a great help.

Post by **Víctor Paredes** » Tue Apr 23, 2013 2:01 am

Hi,
Today is earth day again, so I made a post on my blog with some info, images and the original animatic. Maybe you would like to see it (it's in spanish, but it's not too important if you don't read):
http://www.animadoresporunacausa.blogsp ... imada.html

Earth Day animation created by Victor Paredes

Earth Day animation created by Victor Paredes

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