Your Loss

[Tuxedo Cat Cartoons]

This was only the second full project that I ever completed with Anime Studio Pro 9.2. Looking back, there are some things that I would do differently, and I probably could've trimmed a minute or two off the entire short. But, I had fun making this one, and I learned a lot about the program making this short. That's what I love about Anime Studio: just when I think I have the program figured out, I learn something else. I'm always discovering new ways of doing things with each project I take on. There is ALWAYS room for improvement no matter what you do in life - never stop learning.

[Little Yamori]

Well, I watched it through to the ending credits. It was long, and as I was already exhausted when I began watching, I nearly fell asleep while waiting for the payoff, that said, your style is cool, and your backgrounds were really well done, the noisy outlines work nicely too (nice work on the transition from pupils to hearts). So my critique is focused not so much on the length, but rather on the pace. Your camera movements are (in my opinion) unnecessarily slow, and the same goes for the setups and character movements. This could have been presented in half the time with the same payoff at the end. My sense was that you perhaps were timing your movements to the music, which in this case (for me anyway) made this take toooo long.

So in short my feedback is; nice style, nice artwork, good story, too slow of a pace.

LY

[mtbuck24]

Hey Tuxedo Cat how what did you do to get that really well done effect of him writing on the heart in Anime Studio 9? BTW good job! Pretty sure you learned a lot of what to do and not to do. Good learning experience

[lwaxana]

Nicely done! As others have said, the pacing was slow, but everything else worked well. Did you use the animated noise feature for all the elements?

[Tuxedo Cat Cartoons]

First off...thanks for watching.

Yes...I realize now that the pace is a bit slow, and I could trim off at least four or five minutes. But, this was great practice for me and I gained great knowledge of Anime Studio while making this short. I was aiming for a silent European style film here, but maybe it does stretch on a bit too long. Lesson learned.

Hey Tuxedo Cat how what did you do to get that really well done effect of him writing on the heart in Anime Studio 9? BTW good job! Pretty sure you learned a lot of what to do and not to do. Good learning experience

mtbuck24: To do that scene… first, I drew out the words that I needed (in this case: “To you, from me.”) and I had multiple points along each of the letters. How many points is up to you. I centered up the words where I wanted them to appear on the heart, and then I moved the hand along the letters to create the key frames that I needed to make it look like he was writing. Then, I went back to the start of the timeline and turned the line width of all points down to zero. (“To you, from me” is now invisible.) Then, as the writing hand moved along the letters I adjusted the width of the points on the letters as the tip of the pen moved over them.

Nicely done! As others have said, the pacing was slow, but everything else worked well. Did you use the animated noise feature for all the elements?

lwaxana: Yes, animated noise was used for all of the elements. You just have to play around with the numbers and dimensions to find settings that you like.