Animator. Director. Artist. Scapegoat.
My brilliant Anime Studio Pro teacher Victor Paredes has traveled on to California (visit him at SmithMicro’s Comic-Con booth!) and I have time to digest and practice what I’ve learned. I remain intrigued by ASP’s even-odd fill possibilities, so today I made this bird.
Continuing my Anime Studio Pro studies with Victor “Vector” Paredes, this afternoon he taught me about particles. Here is the result:
Wish me luck retaining even part of the knowledge required to make this.
This week I am intensively studying Anime Studio Pro because Victor “El Maestro” Paredes is visiting from Chile.
Anime Studio handles shapes and lines and curves and points differently than Flash. In particular if a shape crosses over itself it makes a “hole.” There are many ways to “fix” this but I think it’s cool, and made a crudely animated exercise that relies on that behavior:
Try not to mind my imperfect animation, right now I’m just trying to get the hang of this new, very different tool.
It is a cat toy.
Adding to my post below titled Embroidermation: test 1, my co-lunatic Theo Gray shares an animation of the Chinese Postman traveling every path, instructing the machine how to stitch the design:
And here is a screen shot of what he did in Mathematica to get there:
