CApruzzese

I use Sketchbook pro, the standalone version which will never be updated so you are forced to get a subscription, which I will not do - so it won't work forever and this might be a good replacement.

Nice work! That last explosion might be more funny if you made the flip domain the same size as the room so the smoke would fill it up eventually. Right now t looks like it is going through the ceiling if I am seeing it right. That character is really well done! The movements read very real!

I downloaded this a while back and never really found it usable, but had high hopes it would improve so i downloaded the new version. Hopes realized! It's a pretty amazing update and they improved the interface and brushes quite a bit! I haven't gone through ti all yet, but i think my next drawing will be on this and see how it goes.

So fun and well done! I love the zipper!

I am sort of amazed at how low are expectations are for V20. For "ten" version you might expect some really amazing stuff over and above the stuff we have been promised for many years or just improvements to current features. I think MAXON has broken is user base down and now we expect a lot less from each release ... MAXON isn't alone in that but it's sad to me. I am holding out that it will be so amazing I will spring for whatever it costs to go from 16 to 20! The new core is HUGE but also promised for many many years.

Thanks! He hits the skull at the end and moves it over a bit as well. I have a few projects I think would profit from an update, maybe I'll redo more.

I decided to give an older project another go as I thought it might benefit from advances in C4D and improvement in my skillset. I am including one of the original Nostro-dumbass shorts for reference below but I'll be deleting it soon . The predictions are from Criswell, a fraud.. I mean clairvoyant from the 50s you might have seen in the film "Plan Nine From Outer Space". They were so weird I thought I would have a friend do a voice and record a series of them and then practice character animation. The original puppet was really primitive and I fought the rig tooth and nail the entire time making it. As you can see, it didn't even have legs!

From script to final version it was about 300 hours of work. I started it in September. There was a break waiting for the narration to be recorded, then a short break for me to finish my 2 "Dramatic Readings" shorts. Then it was work every day until it was done. RodeoFX does have an office here, haven't found anything I can get my foot in the door with there. I worked on the 2 seasons of a show for a studio called Apartment 11 that does children's shows that went really well and we got nominated for an international Emmy... but not more work after that! It's a lot of getting your foot in the door and I have small feet apparently.

Thank you! I get good feedback from this gothic horror shorts. Now this one is done I want to step back a little (It's the 6th in the series so far!) Ans reevaluate what i want from doing them. I DO want to keep doing them though!

I would love to have a budget and at least one other person working with me on something someday! LOL I have had zero contracts for a while now, it's really slow here so Have plenty of time to work on stuff at least. Have 4 more animations planned for this year, but not gothic horror. Looking forward to doing more cartoon and funny stuff.

So I finished another Lovecraft animation for my series. I tried some new tings in this ones, like more effects wrk and using the autorités for the main character. It also takes place mostly outside which is new for me with these projects. I tried to push the soundscape a lite further as well.

render look amazing! I would change the animation from easing in and out to linear and you'll get a better look to the ship moving in y opinion of course!

Manually, I can't imagine a real person moving like that! LOL I do use video reference for some things, notably there is a part I used the Greased Lightning dance number from Grease and even some ballet stuff.

what a great project! I loved the tie fighter's design, it was really different from other spaceship designs over the years.

Merci! I am glad some one thought it was funny! I love Derek Jacobi but never saw the Fraser episode with him. I decided to see if the first one I did with him "To be or not to be" could get into a festival or two. I have three more in planning stages but I really need to get to work on my next Lovecraft film first.

another reason you are so cool!

Good luck making the cartoon! It's a lot of work and you'll learn a lot by doing it. I ry to remind myself to concentrate in the areas that matter most. Details are great but if they are invisible in the end shot, don't do them and save your energy and efforts of the things you find harder to accomplish. I wish my modelling was a tenth as good as yours is!

they also have a new sneak peak of their coming Publisher app out on their youtube channel now which looks interesting. Not out in beta until summer it seems and we all know that might get delayed again!

Thanks Igor! It's sort of exhausting working with such an over the top character but I like the end results!

So I managed a second Dramatic Readings short. very short and unless you have seen Jaws 2, the reference is pretty obscure but it's something my cousin and I obsessed over for years. I can see a few more of these happening over the course of next year.

It can be done in C4D but that's a lot more work than clicking on a space and adding a pin like you do in photoshop or AE. I had done some photo animation in C4D years ago, before the puppet tool, but the results were not great. maybe because of the tech in c4d at the time and also because you loose some quality exporting but mostly the workflow in a production is just better with AE and photos for what Iw as doing. (Mostly bringing old photos to life for the American Experience TV show). This thread does show there is a bigger variety of options out there if you don't want to use photoshop etc! I'll have to take a look a the humble bundle link!

I have been using Sparkle Web design, it was not expensive and it's dead easy to use. I gave up on Dreamweaver... adobe did very little with it in over a decade and also just gave up on trying to code things by hand. Between c4d, photo works, drawing, graphic design etc.... I have enough to keep track of!

The latest versions of A photo and A designer have a stabilization tool for drawing that is pretty great but those layer features in photo line I've never even thought of some of them. Like any software, what you use it for will determine how good it it for you. None are perfect . I am looking forward to the affinity Publisher app, but it will take a couple years from release for ti to get truly up to speed as a replacement for Indesign - but based on their previous work, I think they'll get there.

I use puppet warp not to just deform an image but more to do something like reposition and arm or leg or feature. Puppet tool pins part of the image in place so you have more control over what and how much is warped. I last used it to pin two sides of several "humps" on a very large panoramic fir a client. if I point one more pin in the centre, I could flatten it out. In a doc about Jesse Owens, I used it in AE on a cut out of him on a layer and pinned his arms, feet etc so i could move them like... well.. a puppet. It has limits to be sure but it can be really useful in some situations.

I use Affinity photo exclusively now for all my image work, which includes setting up, retouching photos for print, archival level retouching and restoration in addition to compositing work for c4d and there really isn't anything seriously missing anymore. I do miss the puppet tool time to time but they can usually be worked around. I find it faster to work in and they are always improving giving lots of major updates away so far with my original purchase price. If you are doing something really off the beaten path, photoshop will likely have feature for that after 20+ years but you would really need to be off the path quite a distance at this point. I find affinity designer eps files work really well in c4d and that is really easier to use than illustrator for me. Final cut pro x was something I beta tested and REALLY hated it. After the last few years of development (and no upgrade fees) it's come along enough I don't use premier or anything else. Motion is so close to replacing AE for me but they have really not done much with adding features to it. If it had native solutions for depth maps and motion blur I would do all my 3D compositing in it. There are plugins for that but that 200$ hasn't been in my budget for a long time to buy them!