I’ll do it on monday!

Okay so basically I was deciding whether I wanted to get a new setup for animation. I was looking at animation desks, and graphics tablets to decide whether or not I would go paperless. It seems like it’s kind of becoming the rage now, 2d animation, but done completely digitally. In any case, I borrowed my brothers tablet which is 6×8. At first when I tried it in some programs I couldn’t get used to it, especially having to press down hard to see anything. Then I was on the afternet irc network in the #ludumdare channel and I got to talking to a guy who goes by the nick DrPetter. He was pretty much convincing me to maybe go paperless ;-) In any case I was talking about how I couldn’t really seem to do decent sketching with some of these free programs i had (gimp, an open source animator called pencil, and a few others)… I finally tried a demo of digicel’s flipbook and it seems like the software made the difference because it was easier to sketch in it. So anyways I was talking to DrPetter and he claimed he wrote a sort of sketching/animation program a while back, which I guess he never got to finishing or whatever. He sent it to me, and instantly I was able to sketch on the tablet appropriately.

Keep in mind however this is only my second day using a tablet, so my control isn’t all that great, but I think I was able to sketch up a walk cycle (the arms are still a little wonky)… And now i’m uploading it as a gif animation so you guys can see.

Keith

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