Me as an Avatar

[byanfu]

Hello everyone, hope you all are having a nice weekend.

Since I just starting to learn about animation I figured I should take baby steps and start small. Here is a little animated avatar of myself in sort of a South Park style. My main goals this time around where to figure out how to set up the structure of the toon, how to create the eyes with bones (Thanks to Myles tutorials on his website), use intermediate switch layers for the arm transition from a lower to upper position, add in just a slight bit of secondary motion and lastly how to export to flash while retaining the line width and shading. I don't have flash but I think it should be embedded correctly in my web page, if you have problems seeing it please let me know.

I wanted to keep sort of a snappy TV style to the animation so I didn't do much tweening. Also because he is short and fat I didn't do any extreme poses. I will have save that for the next test.

http://joellongie.com/animation-test-2/

EDIT: moved files on server, edit to URL

[Genete]

Very convincent. Nice drawing and cut out animation. I think you have many more to show us than cut out. Please continue posting.

Best
Genete

[byanfu]

Thanks Genete.

[Patrick McClintock]

I purloined an article form your web site. Hope you don't mind.

[byanfu]

I purloined an article form your web site. Hope you don't mind.

hmm, I'm not sure how to respond to that, what do you mean by purloined?

[Patrick McClintock]

Did I spell it wrong? Purloined means to have been stolden.
I 'stold' it mostly for entertainment value.

[byanfu]

which article, I don't mind giving permission, buts its nice to ask first.

[byanfu]

im just going to drop the matter.

[tayete]

He he, nice avatar. I wonder if Blogger admits SWF files too...