Ah man, this is fun! I love doodle animations like this. I think it's great that you finished it! Animations like this can be super fun in the end, but animating in generally is like way more...
Ah man, this is fun! I love doodle animations like this. I think it's great that you finished it! Animations like this can be super fun in the end, but animating in generally is like way more effort even with short stuff like this! I can definitely relate to having to make adjustments, like uh oh this bit isn't going to work out like I thought.
No problem, happy to share :) I cranked out another one yesterday, if you'd like to check it out. I started off with the classic bouncing ball and decided to just go where my brain took me....
No problem, happy to share :) I cranked out another one yesterday, if you'd like to check it out. I started off with the classic bouncing ball and decided to just go where my brain took me. Decided to turn the ball into a leaf/blade thing...then realized it kinda looked like a dragon, so I turned it into a dragon, etc. etc. Thinking about just adding on to it here and there. Can't imagine I'll ever run out of things to turn other things into it!
That latest one is super cool! :) p.s. What app are you using to create these? Do you have an Apple Pencil, or did you just use a regular stylus to create these?
That latest one is super cool! :)
p.s. What app are you using to create these? Do you have an Apple Pencil, or did you just use a regular stylus to create these?
It's an app called FlipaClip. It's free (with the occasional ad and a watermark on the outputted video), but has a $9 flat fee for a premium version. I have a 3rd party apple pencil like device....
It's an app called FlipaClip. It's free (with the occasional ad and a watermark on the outputted video), but has a $9 flat fee for a premium version.
I have a 3rd party apple pencil like device. It works really well, although it does occasionally not register in Flipaclip and I have to tap around to shake something loose to get it working again. for <$30 though, I can't complain.
I'm not at all artistic, but I do enjoy doodling and I've dabbled in some stop-motion animation before (I'm not very good at that either, but I enjoy it!). After watching some Andymation videos on...
I'm not at all artistic, but I do enjoy doodling and I've dabbled in some stop-motion animation before (I'm not very good at that either, but I enjoy it!). After watching some Andymation videos on YouTube I decided to try it out.
My plan was to have the ufo abduct the stick man, fly off, have him ask about probing, then get kicked off the ship in response, but I realized he was too big for the ship. I was too lazy to start over, and I'm a special sort of lazy, so I add in a shrink-ray and cut it off with the ship flying away. It took way longer to do that than the original idea would've!
I'm just excited to share something I threw together real quick during my lunchbreak today :)
Your animation sparked some nostalgia in me for 16color.com, an early "social" website that was online from 1999-2003. Users could download a Windows/Mac application for creating little looping...
Your animation sparked some nostalgia in me for 16color.com, an early "social" website that was online from 1999-2003. Users could download a Windows/Mac application for creating little looping 107x60 animated GIFs, and post their creations on the site. I was in secondary school at the time and this was a mind-blowing creative outlet for me.
The site's been defunct for internet eons now, and I assumed all my cartoons were lost to history. However, prompted by your Tildes post, I went looking again and found that as recently as 2019 somebody quietly uploaded a dump of the whole site to archive.org. I've been enjoying watching my old animations again, as well as favorites I remember from other users on the site.
(Anybody's welcome to pore through the files but a word of warning that it's probably a lot less interesting without nostalgia goggles... the vast majority of stuff on there is either low-effort trash or medium-effort edgy teen shock "humor". Personally I was always trying to push the quality envelope but even my own content veers more in that direction than I had remembered, 20 years later. Cringy stuff.)
I dipped my toes into animation with gifs back in the day as well! Not on that site, but with a pirated copy of Fireworks and drawing everything frame by frame. I had no idea about framerate or...
I dipped my toes into animation with gifs back in the day as well! Not on that site, but with a pirated copy of Fireworks and drawing everything frame by frame. I had no idea about framerate or how to spoof rapid movement, so it was like hundreds of frames for really short gifs. I'm really nostalgic about that time in my life as well though. Back when I felt creative and just churned out cool stuff after school because I enjoyed it. Getting back into animation has been an absolute joy because it brings that feeling back :)
I'll have to check out the archive.org dump out when I have some time today.
Ah man, this is fun! I love doodle animations like this. I think it's great that you finished it! Animations like this can be super fun in the end, but animating in generally is like way more effort even with short stuff like this! I can definitely relate to having to make adjustments, like uh oh this bit isn't going to work out like I thought.
Thanks for sharing!
No problem, happy to share :) I cranked out another one yesterday, if you'd like to check it out. I started off with the classic bouncing ball and decided to just go where my brain took me. Decided to turn the ball into a leaf/blade thing...then realized it kinda looked like a dragon, so I turned it into a dragon, etc. etc. Thinking about just adding on to it here and there. Can't imagine I'll ever run out of things to turn other things into it!
That's so rad! I love the transitions and the lil animations for each one, cool idea.
That latest one is super cool! :)
p.s. What app are you using to create these? Do you have an Apple Pencil, or did you just use a regular stylus to create these?
It's an app called FlipaClip. It's free (with the occasional ad and a watermark on the outputted video), but has a $9 flat fee for a premium version.
I have a 3rd party apple pencil like device. It works really well, although it does occasionally not register in Flipaclip and I have to tap around to shake something loose to get it working again. for <$30 though, I can't complain.
I also enjoy doodling, but had never thought to try animating it... So thanks for the app recommendation, and thanks for the inspiration too. :)
I'm not at all artistic, but I do enjoy doodling and I've dabbled in some stop-motion animation before (I'm not very good at that either, but I enjoy it!). After watching some Andymation videos on YouTube I decided to try it out.
My plan was to have the ufo abduct the stick man, fly off, have him ask about probing, then get kicked off the ship in response, but I realized he was too big for the ship. I was too lazy to start over, and I'm a special sort of lazy, so I add in a shrink-ray and cut it off with the ship flying away. It took way longer to do that than the original idea would've!
I'm just excited to share something I threw together real quick during my lunchbreak today :)
Your animation sparked some nostalgia in me for 16color.com, an early "social" website that was online from 1999-2003. Users could download a Windows/Mac application for creating little looping 107x60 animated GIFs, and post their creations on the site. I was in secondary school at the time and this was a mind-blowing creative outlet for me.
The site's been defunct for internet eons now, and I assumed all my cartoons were lost to history. However, prompted by your Tildes post, I went looking again and found that as recently as 2019 somebody quietly uploaded a dump of the whole site to archive.org. I've been enjoying watching my old animations again, as well as favorites I remember from other users on the site.
(Anybody's welcome to pore through the files but a word of warning that it's probably a lot less interesting without nostalgia goggles... the vast majority of stuff on there is either low-effort trash or medium-effort edgy teen shock "humor". Personally I was always trying to push the quality envelope but even my own content veers more in that direction than I had remembered, 20 years later. Cringy stuff.)
I dipped my toes into animation with gifs back in the day as well! Not on that site, but with a pirated copy of Fireworks and drawing everything frame by frame. I had no idea about framerate or how to spoof rapid movement, so it was like hundreds of frames for really short gifs. I'm really nostalgic about that time in my life as well though. Back when I felt creative and just churned out cool stuff after school because I enjoyed it. Getting back into animation has been an absolute joy because it brings that feeling back :)
I'll have to check out the archive.org dump out when I have some time today.