[quote=Zophia in the First Animation Contest]Alrighty, this has been brewing in the artistic minds of a few AGers lately - an animation contest! Similar to the Art Skills Competition we need a few rules in place (largely copy/pasted, so credits to Carlie for parts of this): 1. Must be hand drawn, either on paper or in a program (Pivot is allowed). It can then be manipulated in an graphics program (GIMP is a nice free one with a build in animation filter - google it). Copyrighted images cannot be used. All pieces containing copyrighted images will be disqualified. 2. Submissions must follow the current theme. If you submit more than one piece, please clarify which one you would like to be judged. 3. If your animation is larger than 630 pixels wide, please provide a link to the animation instead of posting it in the forum. Otherwise, the animation will be cut off. 4. Artists cannot win in subsequent weeks. You can still submit, but if you won the week before, you cannot get first place again the next week. Unless only one person submits......let's hope that doesn't happen![/quote]
First Theme will be: Balloon Darts
Just show someone/thing popping a balloon with a dart in any possible way.
I'll judge (unless someone else would like to), and no offense but I don't want a noob judging.
There. It's a Christmas animation. Now you can move on to the next theme.
I chuckled when i read this xD
Ok Ok new theme...hmmm...
NEW THEME: Water
it may seem like a simple theme, but there is a lot you can do with water. It has almost no boundaries as to what it can be used for, be imaginative! And remember like water, your animation should be fluid!
In Pivot you drag joints around to animate the stick figure. In Easytoon you redraw the stick every frame. It is black and white, but has transparency effects which is good for particles. It is pixelized. Pencil is like easytoon, but more advanced. It has smoothing for your brush, and is most flask-like free program GIMP is like Pencil, except it is kind of confusing because it is mostly a drawing program.
I suggest either Pivot or Pencil. But read some tutorials first, trust me it will help a LOT.
Also, 100th post on this thread, and bye-bye 2777 forum posts. xP
