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Published: 2014-09-16 15:38:37 +0000 UTC; Views: 4950; Favourites: 153; Downloads: 31
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"Mum always said: 'Work with friends passes twice as fast.'"
"Division of labour?"
"That's not what she meant at all."
Created for StarryEyedRomantic , a delightful vectorist in her own right. Features characters, Raela and Mathias .
Now on tumblr !
TechnicalStill image created with inkscape .
The animations were made and exported with aniGen .
Exported with Adasek's SVGRender .
You too can make animations with AniGen !
LinksOriginal SVG (valid)
tumblr blog page
As always, I appreciate any comments, criticisms and discussions in the comments.
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Comments: 53
It's a GIF. They don't have sound. Use your imagination.
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Ahhh. Okay. Thanks. I thought it was my computer acting funny.
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You might want to get your imagination more involved.
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-Aww,that blushing point is too deadly cute.
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I love this scene between a girl,secretly in love and the innocent boy that has no clue to her feelings and is at ease with her blushing.
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I like your version.
To me, it feels like two people who had known each other since childhood; they are very open with each other. And maybe all that teasing and time spent together makes them feel like more than just old friends.
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*DING*
That description of your is greater than mine.
You win the adorable design for this animation.
Which you should since this animation IS yours.
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wow that's a long time
your gonna get better just like jan animation
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No, it's not. It's not like that's from start to finish, or "just" the animations - I spent a lot of time moving stuff around and thinking about composition, adjusting the background and so on. Animating the still SVG took me about two hours, and a half of that was animating the right pony's goatee. I already have a mouth system, but animating facial hair is more tedious. Eight hours with all that is actually reasonably fast.
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well i was just saying
but keep up the good work
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If you shy away from spending eight hours on a complete (animated) picture from start to finish, you don't deserve making something good. 
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well all i was thinking in my head is like you were in a mood of animating that's all
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Eh, I didn't mean to sound harsh. Like I said - I just think people should be more willing to spend time on things that they want to turn out well. Too often I see reasonable talent squandered on interesting projects because the person doesn't sacrifice enough time, and runs away before they can see any real results. Everything good takes effort.
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yup just like me on sculpting just the body takes me like an hour and a half or maybe two hours :b
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Do you have a tutorial on how to make these? they are awesome!
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I don't. But I might make one later. It's not like it's terribly hard. You just have to think a bit.
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This kinda reminds me of those classic video games...the ones where there's no voicework with the characters, yet you can see them talking to each other...sorta like this.
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I could make a pop-up window with text that comes up and churns along as the characters talk for something that would make sense. Like a computer game related commission. Otherwise, it'd just break immersion.
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Good point.
But still...I think the lip synching was a nice touch.
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To no sound at all.
But yeah, they do have a "conversation" - it's just inaudible.
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Hey, at least I know what they're saying. I think that's an improvement.
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Aww, I wish I could know. 
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"You know what I like about you?"
"What?"
"You're not afraid to get a little bit sweaty."
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Aww! Cuteness intensifies. Thank you!
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Perhaps. But a multiframe lip sync looks way more realistic than a single frame and you did it very well. I did a year of flash animation in school (of which my work is rather sloppy). But I desperately want to get back into it. I've been practicing my art and music to help prepare me for when I have time to actually sit down and work on animating.
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Well, the thing is I don't use flash.
I work with SVG, and the technology is not based on individual frames, but rather on time and shape interpolation. I have library of mouth shapes composed of analogous paths (same mount of nodes, for instance) that can easily change into one another with SVG animation. That's how I make these so smooth - I could slow the lips to one thousandth and retain the same smoothness of motion. I could export the picture in hundred frames per second if I wanted to.
My "oh" and "oo" shape transition is a bit iffy, but it's pretty okay if you do it from default closed position.
I'm playing with the idea of making the whole thing automatic - make it work from a sound file and fill in the shapes on its own. Mainly because doing it by hand is a bother and the random speech function I made for aniGen provides inconsistent results at times.
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I see, I see. I love Flash. It still follows the traditional frame by frame animation style. It's rather difficult but if you master it's capabilities, then the possibilities are endless! I have a ways to go obviously. Although I am a scientist, cartooning is near and dear to my heart.
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And I dislike flash much for the same reasons. It still follows the traditional frame by frame animation style, making it fixed and unreliable, and creating an arbitrary restriction on the creativity of the artist. The technology is flimsy and old, and closed off. It follows no logical set of recommendations and has absolutely no natural compatibility with any browser, forcing you to get a clunky plugin to even make it work in web environment. It is popular because of its tools, but they are tools made for people with no desire to actually understand what they are doing. They give you dozens of slightly different applications of the same principles (this filter, this filter AND that filter, in reverse order) which swamps any new user with an array of useless tripe.
I don't dismiss the use of Flash for modern animation. At least it has tools. But I think it has no place in modern web environment.
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Traditional animation to the modern way is no different that the horse and buggy to the car. Although the car can outperform a horse any day of the week, you just can't do some things in a car you can do on a horse. Flash is somewhat of a horseless carriage. It is the early car - something worth appreciating and used by those who love both traditional and modern. Knowing how to use Flash properly is why My Little Pony looks as good as it does. The whole series is done entirely in Flash.
The only thing that restricts the creativity of the artist is the artist himself. If it were not so, we would have burned pencils and paper in a great fire a long time ago.
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