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Pen Spinning - Rough Animation by *Inkthinker:iconInkthinker:

Categories Traditional Art > Animations > Pencil tests

©2006-2009 *Inkthinker
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Artist's Comments

Rough animation which will be adapted to clean animation for the upcoming HTF series "Joe is Japanese". More on that later. :D

Look up "pen spinning" or "pen tricks" on Youtube and you can see where this comes from. I just watched a bunch of those and combined that with some logic and my limited ability to twiddle a pencil through my fingers and worked straight ahead frame to frame. Not bad for about 4-5 hours of scribbling, I guess, but nothing compared to the real deal.

No way to really key and tween 'cause I was never really sure where it would go next. It was a bitch and a half to make it loop...

-EDIT-

Looks like they've done something that fixed the problem with GIFs not displaying. Hooray!! :D


©2006 HTF Studios Inc.

Sorry, I can't give you permission to use it as an avatar or anything... it's surprising enough that I'm even allowed to share it at all. >_<

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=Realm-Of-The-Shadows Sep 13, 2006, 11:18:18 PM
what would you possibly key and tween anyway to make this work?

well done BTW

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~TwistedGubby Sep 13, 2006, 11:19:00 PM
thats sexy, looks mad

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~Nosferatu-Iddi Sep 13, 2006, 11:20:47 PM
Awesome animation. I'm kind of able to do some pen spinning, and this really inspired me to start practicing again :D

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*Inkthinker Sep 13, 2006, 11:23:41 PM
But without keys, you get volume shifts and such.

Once I have it roughed out, it's easier to key and tween properly for the cleanup cause I can jump across frames, but yeah... when actually roughing out the action, it was kinda impossible to do anything but draw a frame, then sit and think about "what next", and then draw another frame... Then look for places to work a loop and edit that in.

I messed up at least three times and had to step back a few frames, take a new path. With more time I could probably add more flourishes and different tricks.
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~Ciaobat Sep 13, 2006, 11:30:48 PM
This is excellent, and will be even more so cleaned up. What's HTF, though?
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~RyuDan Sep 13, 2006, 11:36:00 PM
Holy shit, that's awesome

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=Realm-Of-The-Shadows Sep 13, 2006, 11:39:47 PM
how do you tween a frame by fram animation?(are they shaping tweens?)

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Evangelion + Kodocha = [link]
|/^^^^^^^^^^^^^^\ ||____
|A ~FullMetalPanicClub?| |||'""|'"\___,
| _dis truck is en route! |/l||__|__|__|)
|(@)(@)""""""""""""'(@)(@) -------- (@)
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~theangrybuddha Sep 13, 2006, 11:46:55 PM
I love watching your animations! Can't get enough of em...

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~rabidguy Sep 14, 2006, 12:03:13 AM
sheeeeaT! *drops pen* tries. *drops again* gets a bigger pencil. *fails*

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~Amarynceus Sep 14, 2006, 12:33:15 AM
Nice and smooth. :D I like it. I remember trying to twirl a pen like that back in school -- usually ended up with a flying pen glancing off my glasses or forehead.

It may have been a pain to do, but it loops well. Could use maybe a beat or two of relative stillness at the loop point? Or not, I dunno.

I really wish they'd fix this download to view thing, it's a bit annoying.
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