'Lilium' - made © CalArts 2008

[firemarble]

I'm reluctantly posting this here since a few of you asked so nicely (I wouldn't want to let you guys down)!
It's a Work in Progress, as I'm planning on continuing to animate the rest of it over the summer and however long it takes to get it done.

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Yeah, lesson learned: don't animate underwater characters unless you really know how to animate well

Comments

[princealia]

WTF DID SHE DIE?!?! ;_______; THIS IS NOT FUNNY, KRISTINA. WHERE'S THE LULZ? XD

But oh man, there's this part about a minute and 5 seconds in where her hair folds back on to her when she stops that's so gorgeous. I love it <3

And did you look at Ariel any? Cause I got that vibe a lot of the time in the way she moves and carries herself xD

[firemarble]

No she didn't die, her ego just got severely marred lol

I looked at a few things for references (yes, including TLM :3), and though I did my best to put my own acting choices into her, I'm sure some things showed up subconsciously.

Thanks~ ; ;

[youngavenger]

I really like the shot you have around 59 seconds, where she is looking up at the petals falling. That's a really good shot--the way its animated and everything. And the one about a minute and twelve seconds into it, I really like the colors in that shot.

And the only thing I can think of to help in animating water...is maybe going to the aquarium and observing the fish?

[firemarble]

I'm glad you like those!

It's not so much having trouble animating things underwater - I understand the physics okay enough - just actually *doing* it is more trouble, because a lot of my frames were on 1's (and then keeping track of overlap and everything else you do to animate etc...) It just takes practice I guess? It got a little faster as I was animating more.

How are your projects going?

[youngavenger]

Oh, okay. Yeah I can understand it being a bit of trouble animating it...

My projects are coming along very slowly...there is never enough time XD;

[sparklingsoull]

That animation is gorgeous.

[firemarble]

I'm glad you enjoyed it~

[firemarble]

Aw :/ though, I guess that was kind of the point?

[vulgar_toshiya]

Very emotional film! Even if you don't think you did that well, I can see improvement. The way you animated her hair is just...amazing.

Please keep working on this, I want to see where her story goes!

[firemarble]

The story ends there, but I'm going to fix things when I work on it some more. At the end, I should have made it clearer that her interaction with the "flooper" made him realize that she wasn't going to change, and he leaves her alone in THE ABYSS! But I didn't have time, rushed, and this is what you see now D: *desk*

At least you can see improvement! That makes me happy enough.