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Squirrelsquid In reply to rayzorDeviant [2014-05-12 23:20:52 +0000 UTC]

no, sorry.

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Squirrelsquid In reply to Channini [2009-03-31 12:11:42 +0000 UTC]

hehe thanks
As mentioned above in the comment, I am currently preparing an effect animation workshop ( part one - Explosions) that I am going to open on the TIGsource and Pixeljoint forums. I'll be sure to link from here, when it is done :3

Explosions especialy are more like a 'let's do eet' thing for me, as I think they are easy ( they most likely are not, I just practiced a lot ) Explosions are all about the flow, so after you chose on how many frames you want, you define some keyframes - 'oses'/shapes that you absolutly need. When I started doing a lot of animation, I was just goofing of, trying this and that, and after many many hours my first explosions looked okayish. -I have far more done than I have on dA - some interesting stuff is from comercial projects I worked on, that I am not allowed to show in public- Nowadays I usualy get a 'I need a mushroom cloud explosion! I need them in 3 hours!' ( or something simmilar) and I usualy get it done in the desired timeframe. Not as polished as one might like, but I get it done. Explosions, like that large 'fireball' explosion of Havoc Zone are an entirely different thing, as they are huge, have a high framecount and a high colorcount - I spent like 20 hours on the fireball explosion... that's just something you can't do with every effect or you'd go insane. Normaly I don't observe explosions - I have a very imaginitiv functioning brain. Images and 'animations' are stuck there 'forever' and I just have to look through my mindlog, if there was any particular explosion that fits the case. Also trial and error was something I had to do at the beginning. nowadays I just 'do eet' like I mentioned above :3

A good idea would be, to start with colored shapes. Animate it until you are fine with the motion, and the start shading - after that, some tweaks might be neccesary to bring the whole thing together, where it didn't quite work.

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Channini In reply to Squirrelsquid [2009-04-02 18:33:45 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for such a detailed comment, it's pretty helpful and interesting. The advice about using basic images and shapes to get the motion down with animation and then make it detailed makes a lot of sense to me -- it would probably make animation much less tiresome than having to fix problems with motion after the details were added. I will keep this in mind!

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Squirrelsquid In reply to Xeno-striker [2009-03-30 04:23:06 +0000 UTC]

haha explosions are not as mythical as it seems - As mentioned in the description, it is for a Workshop I am creating for the folks at TIGsource and Pixel Joint - I'll be sure to link it when it is available - which might take a while, as I'm still rather busy D:

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Xeno-striker In reply to Squirrelsquid [2009-03-30 04:40:55 +0000 UTC]

i cant wait... my explosion skills suck

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