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Aha ... I always throw stuff in Show-and-tell but this makes a lot of sense too. This is a good way to post things that you don't necessarily expect to start a discussion with; just hanging it out there.
Like this--yet another e-birthday card; start to finish = 2 hours:
Merry Christmas!
This year's Cristmas e-Card
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claymation cape test
Somewhere, lurking deep in the back of my mind, is a claymation superhero project. This is a little spurt of activity on it. There might not be more for a while but this was fun to do.
One of the technical challenges is working out how to animate a satisfying cape billowing in the breeze. There's a giant American Flag that sits atop a cellphone tower near my house that I've been studying. This isn't bad for a first attempt. (eventually the entire character will be clay--and not Supes either; he's just a stand in.)
More on this soon, I hope. Other things cooking, though.
Ted Nunes - www.tedtoons.com
Beanie Boy
I've just taken to calling him Beanie Boy. He needs a real name. He will be a recurring character in a super secret project I'm working on. (The project is secret for now, but I can show him off.)
Here is a simple short test animation.
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Beanie Boy has had a makeover
Interesting how things evolve. I was originally told that they wanted this to be "... a fat, little kid--a real porker." And, of course, they wanted a "Spumco" feel to it. They liked the first design for starters but then got cold feet about him being SO fat and weird looking, so I've gone for a more conventional cuteness:
He's more appealing this way but we can still put him in funny and weird situations and push; we have plans to put the little guy through the ringer.
This is the animated version.
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Some Brain Massage
Recent effects; part of larger projects but they make interesting zen state inducing doo-dads by themselves:
Spacey Glow
Watery Vortex
Rainbow Hyperspace Zoom
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Lol! Love the bunny card. I also checked out your website - those sheep are just adorable. :D
Man your stuff is hilarious!!! love it all,
I should blow the dust off my flash 8 program and try to learn it huh? just scares the livin hell outta me. since it took me the better part of 6 years to figure a few of the in's and out's of Photoshop hehe.
cart :D
love your work my friend
http://john-cartunemansdoodles.blogspot.com/
Flash in your pants
Thanks! You SHOULD jump back into Flash. And don't be afraid. The best approach is to forget "all that stuff" that it COULD do and keep it basic (at first.) And you definitely will want to merge what you've been doing in Photoshop into your Flash work. (You don't HAVE to use Flash's drawing tools.) You can save your Photoshop elements out as transparent pngs and import them into your Flash movie. That's how I've done my claymation pieces.
Ted Nunes - www.tedtoons.com
Another quick and dirty birthday card
From our should have been working instead department:
Yet another birthday card drawn straight into Flash. The trick with my Wacom tablet at the office is that I have two monitors and it's mapped across both of them, so I have to adjust for its tendency to want to stretch my drawings.
Ted Nunes - www.tedtoons.com
Glenn Beck - drawn with an iPhone
Playing with SketchBook Mobile. I drew Glenn Beck from memory. I did this using my fingers. It's kind of like finger-painting. I've ordered a stylus which should help my control, but I'm sure I'll still use my fingers a lot--it's kind of fun.
Ted Nunes - www.tedtoons.com
I think I'll let those that have it mastered do what they do and totally amaze me like your work dose.....Hey maybe you should e-mail me sometime soon...I have a client that may be looking into having some flash animation done for web and tv. it's all about networking these days! :D
http://john-cartunemansdoodles.blogspot.com/
hey cool quirky work mate! And what program did you use to draw that on your mobile??
http://www.charactercube.com
http://www.kennethanderson.blogspot.com
My sketch thread
re: mobile sketching
The app is called SketchbookMobile. It was $2.99. Insane amount of functionality for what it costs. (and I haven't fully explored it yet.) The layers feature is the most helpful for the cartoony stuff. You can put the outlines on the top and then color it on lower layers.
I got the stylus and have been doing a little experimenting with that. (nothing interesting enough to post yet.) It's got a fuzzy tip, about the size of a half worn pencil eraser. It does give you more control but it takes getting used to it; kind of like getting used to using your fingers. (figuring out where the center point of the line is going to be relative to the tip pressing on the screen.)
There is something refreshing about the lack of control. Makes you work more gestural and free. Pretty fun!
Ted Nunes - www.tedtoons.com
Some meeting doodles
By day I art direct e-Learning (interactive) projects. Lately, I've had to sit in a lot of meetings. I'm pretty good at multi-tasking: I can pay attention to what is being discussed while I doodle. (the color got added when I got back to my desk.)
(turned this into a last-minute birthday card after the fact.)
Ted Nunes - www.tedtoons.com
Halloween doodley
Another meeting doodle. Not a hilarious gag but I think my Wolf-Man came out kind of cute. Probably inspired subconsciously by the face my dog Dingo makes when he's caught being bad.
UPDATED: just adding this mummy. Have a happy Halloween!
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Hey, lookit me being topical!
My lame take on Balloon Boy.
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Pucker Up
This is not animation-related (well, only slightly-related--it's a video that I WANTED to do animation for but just didn't have the time).
It's my band, The Ukedelics, and our first original song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVNlapJlQRc
Ted Nunes - www.tedtoons.com
Fogey Fu sample animation
Link to Fogey Fu demo.
Features some of the actual game play in action.
(I figured that eventually my Fogey post in Show And Tell would fall into oblivion, so I'd preserve the samples here.)
Get the app at iTunes Store
UPDATE! - Fogey Fu Lite, a FREE version is now available. (in case the nurses have been stealing from you.)
Ted Nunes - www.tedtoons.com
claymation star stuff
This is sort of a sketch in clay. I'd been wanting to do something with claymation again, so I spent the long New Year's weekend fiddling with this. Yet another fun experiment that might turn into something. Might not. (I do have a "story" mapped out in my head that I could work this up into.)
The animated clip is here.
Ted Nunes - www.tedtoons.com
Of Pelicans and Petroleum
This is an animation I did for cartoonstock.com. (a rare attempt to be topical.) It's sat up there for a while and isn't so topical anymore, so I thought I'd share it here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3H9w7PYx98Y
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