someone asked about colour and how it affects environments so time for more pissing about with my left hand :D
original is the top left (all one layer) I just mauled the hell of it in photoshop to demonstrate how the time and atmosphere of a picture can be completely changed with a colour shift- composition and content are super important too but don’t underestimate the power of your palette! it can work against you as well as for you!
sorry I’m not great at explanations straight after work (_ )_
artisticlicense-personal asked: Could you make that left-handed castle drawing into a print? It's BEAUTIFUL!
wh- really? what say you minions, would anyone else want that?
p.s. thank you gsajgasjgak that’s very kind ;w;
Anonymous asked: I plan on (trying to) animate clasically, by hand and such. Is there a type of paper to use for it? Or do you use regular printer paper to do it? Because I am confused and marvelled by hand animators.
CRAP PAPER.
Well okay not *crap* crap paper, but honestly I found that the best paper for animating was the thinner stuff; at school we had the fancy prepunched stuff with the right holes for the peg bar which was awesome, and you could have ‘rough’ or ‘clean’ paper. Rough was more like regular printing paper, clean was very smooth and beautiful to get sharp work down onto it, but didn’t grip the lead so well (I don’t press down hard like some people) and was quite thick. I didn’t use my desk’s backlighting function very much so the slight transparency of the rough sort helped me read the flow of frames a little better, and before that I’d been animating on cheap A4 paper from the super market which was even more transparent! Horrible to manage on the peg bar though, much too small for one.
So yeah man that’s my two cents but you can use pretty much anything, and certainly any sort of paper- that’s why so many animators have made flip books in the past.
candlelightart asked: Hello! I'm going to ask you a question, There is a job opportunity in my city to be a storyboard artist. I'm trained as an animator and i love story boarding. Do you have any tips on how to apply or present my work?
Be honest about your abilities and your passion for the subject, include work that shows you are able to communicate a story clearly and creatively, and don’t be afraid to ask them questions about their project and aims! Show a true interest in the work and their history (research what they’ve done before- it’ll really make a difference in conversation and shows you give a damn), and yeah just be chill and keep in mind that even if you don’t get the job if you make a strong, positive impression they’ll remember you and be more likely to consider you in the future. Sometimes people don’t get the job but the applicant that does has to drop out for some reason, so there’s always a chance you’ll get a call from them again if you rock it. Best of luck!
left handed drawing continues to be equal parts fun and frustration best viewed from the other side of the planet
Anonymous asked: so you ARE getting TPoH printed?
Yes! Sorry for panicking before but we thought there might be some issues with font licensing (which I had never heard of before), but after more research and a talk with the printers it turns out there isn’t a problem in this case after all, so I’m going ahead with getting a first batch of about 500 copies printed out of my own pocket because you guys have been super patient with my incompetence.
The only problem is I have absolutely no idea what I’m going to do when I get them! I’ve never sold or distributed anything like this before! If someone out there has any experience in the matter that would be great to hear about, and that includes any bad experiences/mistakes to learn from before I inevitably wind up making them myself because I am stupid :’D
