Yup, I just started a Cartoongangup Facebook group, everyone is welcome to join it, so we finally get this show on the road. The whole thing is experimental - let's have fun with it and we'll see how it goes. :D
Monday, October 19, 2009
Started a CartoonGangup Facebook group
Fresh news: Cartoon Gangup is now on facebook.com as well.
Yup, I just started a Cartoongangup Facebook group, everyone is welcome to join it, so we finally get this show on the road. The whole thing is experimental - let's have fun with it and we'll see how it goes. :D
Yup, I just started a Cartoongangup Facebook group, everyone is welcome to join it, so we finally get this show on the road. The whole thing is experimental - let's have fun with it and we'll see how it goes. :D
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Scenario for a fanmade transformers g1 episode
Suggestion for the title:
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The Fist of The Huffer
Basic idea:
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Huffer carries the Matrix of leadarship for a day.
(And it results in some mighty fantastic combat scenes as Huffer gains incredible power and increases in size.)
Motivation:
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Those two times Huffer had his noble moments in G1 series ("Divide and Conqer" (bravely leads Autobots when Optimus was down), and "Heavy Metal War" (towed Oprimuses trailer when he was damaged)). Also the motivations are: the fact that he is a truck (just like Optimus), and his interesting arms - though they are funny-looking his arms gave me an idea - they are chromed - mirror-like (can reflect laser light), and seem crude and strong (how does a combat scene when he is crushing Decepticon limbs with a grip of his hand, and smashing their plating with a punch of his fist, sound?).
SCENARIO:
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Story summarized in one sentence:
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Very badly damaged Optimus Prime surrounded by some Decepticons entrusted The Matrix of leadership to the only one present at the time - non other than the humble Autobot Huffer - to carry it to the safety of the Autobot base.
Description of the story in three sentences:
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Emergency call from a nuclear waste disposal convoy on a remote mountain road brought Autobots to the scene of a near catastrophy, not much far from the place where Megatron sent Starscream to help Reflector test his optics - but instead he modified it into a dangerous weapon meant against Megatron.
Two trucks were needed to replace the unoperable two destroyed in the incident - Optimus and Huffer carried away the radioactive material to the disposal location, but Starscream intercepted them and used Reflectors' modified optics for attack which drained Reflectors' energy rendering him inoperable, and really heavily damaged Optimus in explosion in a cave where he and Huffer (both electronically disabled (by radiation) to radio for help) tried to shield the radioactive material; leaving Optimus no choice but to entrust the Matrix of leadership to Huffer to guard it and carry it to the safety of the Autobot base - which he succeded after an amazing battle against the reinforced Decepticons lead by Megatron, when Huffer saw no other solution but to use the Matrix on himself.
Persued by some Decepticons, having reached the base Huffer was able to contact the others who then divided into two teams: to help Optimus, and to help Huffer and a few left in the base to defend it - which they succeded both, so at the end overwhelmed by the pressure of responsibility Huffer returned the Matrix to Optimus where it belongs.
(This episode takes place somewhere between the last episode of season two and Transformers the Movie.)
----------------------------
The Fist of The Huffer
Basic idea:
-------------
Huffer carries the Matrix of leadarship for a day.
(And it results in some mighty fantastic combat scenes as Huffer gains incredible power and increases in size.)
Motivation:
-------------
Those two times Huffer had his noble moments in G1 series ("Divide and Conqer" (bravely leads Autobots when Optimus was down), and "Heavy Metal War" (towed Oprimuses trailer when he was damaged)). Also the motivations are: the fact that he is a truck (just like Optimus), and his interesting arms - though they are funny-looking his arms gave me an idea - they are chromed - mirror-like (can reflect laser light), and seem crude and strong (how does a combat scene when he is crushing Decepticon limbs with a grip of his hand, and smashing their plating with a punch of his fist, sound?).
SCENARIO:
=======
Story summarized in one sentence:
-------------------------------------------
Very badly damaged Optimus Prime surrounded by some Decepticons entrusted The Matrix of leadership to the only one present at the time - non other than the humble Autobot Huffer - to carry it to the safety of the Autobot base.
Description of the story in three sentences:
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Emergency call from a nuclear waste disposal convoy on a remote mountain road brought Autobots to the scene of a near catastrophy, not much far from the place where Megatron sent Starscream to help Reflector test his optics - but instead he modified it into a dangerous weapon meant against Megatron.
Two trucks were needed to replace the unoperable two destroyed in the incident - Optimus and Huffer carried away the radioactive material to the disposal location, but Starscream intercepted them and used Reflectors' modified optics for attack which drained Reflectors' energy rendering him inoperable, and really heavily damaged Optimus in explosion in a cave where he and Huffer (both electronically disabled (by radiation) to radio for help) tried to shield the radioactive material; leaving Optimus no choice but to entrust the Matrix of leadership to Huffer to guard it and carry it to the safety of the Autobot base - which he succeded after an amazing battle against the reinforced Decepticons lead by Megatron, when Huffer saw no other solution but to use the Matrix on himself.
Persued by some Decepticons, having reached the base Huffer was able to contact the others who then divided into two teams: to help Optimus, and to help Huffer and a few left in the base to defend it - which they succeded both, so at the end overwhelmed by the pressure of responsibility Huffer returned the Matrix to Optimus where it belongs.
(This episode takes place somewhere between the last episode of season two and Transformers the Movie.)
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Transformation riddle
Here's something for ya, nonrelated to the main thing on this blog:
What car model* this Autobot I invented** transforms into?
* my favourite car - best design ever if you ask me
(seen it first time on a bubble gum picture when I was 11 or so, and like it ever since (seen some on the street too; hope to own one sometime in the future :) ))
** some time ago (maybe two years; not sure)
What car model* this Autobot I invented** transforms into?
* my favourite car - best design ever if you ask me
(seen it first time on a bubble gum picture when I was 11 or so, and like it ever since (seen some on the street too; hope to own one sometime in the future :) ))
** some time ago (maybe two years; not sure)
Monday, August 17, 2009
JOINING THE CREW
OK, people, THIS IS IT -- let's see whom can this thing count on -- use commenting to add yourself to the list.
This is where You decide whether you'll do something special in your life or you're gonna be just another useless fateless 'flesh-creature'.
This is where You decide whether you'll do something special in your life or you're gonna be just another useless fateless 'flesh-creature'.
Sunday, August 16, 2009
Small exercise project
Of course - when we all work (draw frames) on one collective animation project - each of us would certainly draw it somewhat differently than the other fellow -- so my plan is to first have a small exercise project NON-RELATED to transformers - to see just how big those differences are.The concept of it should exactly count on that erratic effect (rather than suffering from it) - some wacky theme, story placed in some weird imaginary world that would correspond to that wacky way of making it -- something easy - say 3 minutes long cRaZy cartoon at 12 frames per second with just 100 of us working on it (that's less than 22 images each) - without much effort nor precision - just doodleing it however, sketching it however, outlining it however, painting it however, shading it however, making whatever backrounds... just to make it as quickly as possible while going through all the phases.
So what would you like? :D Come on - use your imagination - let's see what you can come up with - something completely laughable (both by scenario and technically), easy and fun to do!
(use commenting to leave your suggestions (as you know - no registration is required))
A bit of practice
Bought a new monitor (my first LCD monitor by the way), so I've been checking out how it feels like working on it (jumping straight from my own old 15" CRT to this brand new 19" TFT - the level of detail observed on that larger surface, and the warmth of the color were impressive; also it gave me an excuse to play a bit more with my tablet (cheap Genius one - I guess there's no need for more because I suspect the issue about all the tablets is precession (and the limitations are basically in us humans - in our hands and eyes) - and for that you MUST zoom in on the picture while outlining)).
So - here it is - a bit of Transformers fan art made by me - fresh out!
You see the phases, and then the picture with ofsetted layers of the phases so there are all shown in one picture.
You can really feel how actually important the shading phase is.
Resolution for all of them is 800x600 pixels, so you might want to click on them to view the full version.
I'm thinking to make 800x600 a standard resolution for the cartoon frames, as it's just above the PAL resolution (768x576 pix.), so it capacitates PAL quality of the picture... and also it's a nice round number...
Of course the bigger the picture the greater the quality, but then it also takes more memory (and when you multiply it with the number of frames -- you talking gigabytes), so this is quite optimal.
So - here it is - a bit of Transformers fan art made by me - fresh out!
You see the phases, and then the picture with ofsetted layers of the phases so there are all shown in one picture.
You can really feel how actually important the shading phase is.
Resolution for all of them is 800x600 pixels, so you might want to click on them to view the full version.
I'm thinking to make 800x600 a standard resolution for the cartoon frames, as it's just above the PAL resolution (768x576 pix.), so it capacitates PAL quality of the picture... and also it's a nice round number...
Of course the bigger the picture the greater the quality, but then it also takes more memory (and when you multiply it with the number of frames -- you talking gigabytes), so this is quite optimal.
Friday, August 14, 2009
Example for phases of work
SO, finaly snatched some time to post these!
All done on my PPC (using Pocket Artist).
This is an example of how the process I described in the VERY IMPORTANT TEXT RIGHT BELOW THERE (make sure you read it, please).
Just as I listed the phases:
1. blue doodle
2. gray sketch
3. black outlining
4. coloring
5. shading
6. placing surroundings
That's the final image in PAL resolution (768x576).
Easy!
(also we can make a game of 'find the errors' out of it q:D )
All done on my PPC (using Pocket Artist).
This is an example of how the process I described in the VERY IMPORTANT TEXT RIGHT BELOW THERE (make sure you read it, please).
Just as I listed the phases:
1. blue doodle
2. gray sketch
3. black outlining
4. coloring
5. shading
6. placing surroundings
That's the final image in PAL resolution (768x576).Easy!
(also we can make a game of 'find the errors' out of it q:D )
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