timothyntc:

Speed paint “This…” Paint tool SAI

timothyntc:

No don’t really go spaming people’s dashboards if it’s really long, though if theyre following your blog for its content, they shouldn’t really care that much.

helpyoudraw:

Tree and Leaves Tutorial + Tips by Qinni

amorsinistra:

HERE’S A GREAT RESOURCE For those of you who want/have muscular trolls!

These are all olympic athletes at different heights and natural body types! It’s a good idea to get a look at how muscle builds and compacts differently depending on what it’s used for. A good thing to remember is also that six pack abs don’t actually indicate how strong someone is! They’re usually cultivated for show, because in someone who has functional muscle, the muscle is insulated and compact, giving them a more ‘solid’ sort of look! 

As you can see in the body builders (who dehydrate themselves to make their muscle stand out more) the muscles are overdefined for the sake of being very visible and showy! But the weightlifters and wrestlers are incredibly dense and compact! 

Idk bodies are neat guys!!!

qinni:

qinni:

The whole film took me altogether about 5 grueling months (usually 10-12hours a day) to do. I often felt my butt was going to grow into the chair I usually sat at. 

Please note that this was simply my way of doing my film to achieve the soft-shaded style I wanted; there are many other ways of doing this and some are a lot faster with different results~! :)

• My film on DeviantArt | My film on Vimeo
• My film gifs on Tumblr
• You can see my storyboard animatic here (although the original had music, but like I mentioned, my placeholder music was by Joe Hisaishi, you know, Miyazaki’s composer, so it’s not really legal to upload it). 

This tut differs a bit from my dA version, because tumblr lets me put the combination of gifs and jpegs :D. 

Here’s a book that will really help you start animating:

• The Animator’s Survival Kit 

here’s some books that are good for composition, storytelling and colours:

• Dream Worlds: Production Design for Animation
• The Art of Pixar: The Complete Color Scripts and Select Art from 25 Years of Animation
• Prepare to Board! Creating Story and Characters for Animated Features and Shorts

I hope these helped

I ask that no one removes the credit or source for this tutorial/guide please. thanks :)

Ack, I completely forgot to add that before you guys do backgrounds and animation and after you have a satisfactory storyboard animatic, it’s good to come up with a colour-script for your film so you know how your film feels with which colours, etc. 

This was some of the colour script for my film:

sorry, it was late last night and I forgot D;

fungii:

The book does have a basic breakdown of the hands, but I felt that references like these were much more needed.

From Graphic Sha’s “How to Draw Manga: Drawing Yaoi”