BTW: Trailer

Many thanks to Ozma Sound for such a fantastic job on the music and sound effects.

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That is approximately the sound my computer is making right now. Really, really, really loudly.

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&^%$

Painting backgrounds

Tables are overrated. The floor is comfy.

Animating with a track pad: because I like making things difficult

Every now and then I feel like really challenging myself: switching things up a bit, getting my brain working again, adding a little bit of extra interest to my work, you know?

So in the spirit of of unnecessary difficulty and being too lazy to get my tablet out of my bag... I decided to animate this with my track pad. After about 3 frames I decided to pack up and go home and continue on the bus (because you know, drawing on a track pad isn't hard enough on it's own, why not do it in a moving vehicle?). The bus proved much less of a complication than anticipated. The only difference I noticed was that I couldn't make funny faces without looking like a creeper and that I had to just hold onto the laptop whenever the bus had to stop to keep it from sliding off my lap.

My favourite part of the experience was when on the third and final bus, a passenger behind me tapped me on the shoulder and asked if I'd ever considered using a tablet. I told him yea, but there was no space on the bus and I just couldn't be bothered to take it out. (Thank you random stranger!)

Between those three frames at school and getting off the bus this is what I accomplished. Go me.

Someone out there panning a walk cycle hates me right now.

So, more often than not I do a walk cycle then just leave it looping on the spot and don't bother panning it across a background because in the past most of my walk cycles have been exercises for the sake of the walk itself.

So I think that when you DO take your walk cycle character and pan it across a screen the idea is to measure out how much you've put the planted foot back on each frame then calculate how quickly the pan will have to move, or if you're doing the pan by hand you carefully line up the tickers to the accorded distance or something.

That's how I think it works anyways. I've yet to actually do that because I tend to just guess at random then check the feet. It's happened for the second time now that on the first guesstimate the feet stick perfectly.

Well, if that's how my dice are going to roll I guess I'll just have to live with it.