neat! Nice flow to the animation and is it meant to look sketchy like a style or was this just a rough look you did for a test animation?

Nicely done! I keep on thinking about doing my own animation; it's just going to take me the time to sit down and do it. And a simple animation program. :)

Looking great there! :) I always do miss animating stuff - though I was embarassingly bad at it. Flour sack animations are always cute.

The cutest darn flour sack ever! =3

hahah thats cute and funny ^^

real nice sack, the animation is very fluid

Great animation!

Lol Nice.

Who'd a thunk a flour sack could have character (other than yourself, obviously). Very good job.

It's actually a "standard" exercise for animation classes to do. (One that, thanks to getting a different teacher for Animation I in college, I managed to miss.) Have a flour sack doing stuff, and actually give it a character, rather than just being "Generic Sack #8924" or whatever. :P

Yet another animation project that I'm completing that I should have done in school...ah well, I think I've almost got the education I should have gotten complete...

nice

That is outstanding!!!

I'm gonna have to try some experiments like this... trying to learn animation from a sprite-based background is a slow process on my own.

I advise starting with a VERY simple character, like this flour sack here.

This animation only took me a few hours, but it's 213 drawings over the course of 265 frames. It'd be much more of a nightmare to attempt to do with the sort of characters you see in most of the illustration around this site. :}

As far as the actual animation - it's actually pretty simple. Draw the poses that tell the story, then the rest of the poses that describe the actions, fill in the poses between those that describe how the actions occur, put them on the right time index (extending poses that don't move for the duration they're still for), then fill in ALL the rest of the drawings.

Very easy to do, a little tricky to get RIGHT. And of course, extremely labor-intensive. :}

I seriously recommend Toon Boom Studio - it's what I use, and their higher-end software is used for lots of animated movies (The Simpsons, Triplets of Belleville...I'm sure a bunch of others...)

That's one of the programs I'm saving up for... I can do quite a bit of messing around with photoshop/imageready, but the file sizes are monsterous and the timing options between frames is excruciatingly limited.

Wow, looks like you passed the flour sack test!

Toon Boom, eh? I had that at one time, but had no clue what to do next. I need tutorials, or somethin'. (I was only used to pen and paper at the time, and the ancient ancestor of computer animation, Animator Pro)

Any tutorials you suggest?

I don't know that there are any tutorials for Toonboom, other than what's in the manual. For animation, not much is needed other than a hotkey reference, it's the "Scene Planning" side of things that are confusing.

It's set up for a right-handed user, and the keys to control, well, pretty much everything for animation are all on the left side of the keyboard. Z/X zoom, A/S step forward and back in time, D/F switch layers left and right, Q/W adjust previous/next drawing onion skinning, and E/R (which as of TBS V2 only work when the exposure sheet has focus) lengthen and shorten exposure time (shift E/R adds/removes blank frames).

So with a little practice - a few seconds of animation should be more than enough - you should be able to animate nearly intuitively in it, at least for the basics.

I managed to see this a day or two ago, but can only comment now; slow interweb--looks neat. But why choose a flour sack to animate? For the fullness and rotundness and weight distribution and four corners you have to work with?

It's a standard exercise - dates back to the original "Illusion of Life" book, I guess...

Damn, I like your sack D:

This is awesome. It almost reminds me of one of Mr. Bean's fiascoes. XD

Thanks, I think! o.o

lol, I remember when I had to do those for a 2D animation class.

Which means you had a good 2D animation class.

Somehow my classes completely skipped those. >:|