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Animation is the imagination laid bare for all to see, our own personal constructed realities shared with others, story telling in it's purest form, or just a bunch of funny shit drawn for people to laugh their arses off to. It's all good.

Neil Sanders @TheBoogley

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Boogley runs!!

Posted by TheBoogley - September 6th, 2008


I've spent some time working though the animation exercises in the Richard Williams book, The Animators Survival Guide... It's a great resource for learning the principles of animation, the technical stuff used in creating realistic movement.

My chances of survival as an animator were slim but thanks to that book I think I'm going to pull through.

I've ordered another one too, Preston Blairs book, Cartoon Animation, which is supposed to be one of the best, and another book on dynamic life drawing for animation.
Any excuse to draw nude people. ;D

Boogley runs!!


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Nice, where do u get this book?

amazon? I got it at a technical bookshop in Melbourne... And I've noticed most libraries have it here.

srsly come to st.george and teach me to animate lol

I'm on my way, leaving the house now... :P

Also were do i find that book?

I think it's under your bed. Any bookshop could order it in for you.

That book is great, I got it a couple months ago.

It's a great reference, but it focuses on very difficult aspects of animation. There are many easier exercises which teach the principles without the need to be a fantastic drawer.

op to da op a bang a bang biggy biggy biggy sets the boogy and i drop the boogley

stuck in my head since I saw your username

don't stop a rocking till the bang bang boogley! :D

I've read Preston Blairs book, and it was very helpful. Something tells me I should check out the Animators Survival Guide...hmmm

I've read the Animators Survival Guide, and it was very helpful. qstorm tells me I should check out Preston Blairs book... hmmm

that run cycle looks really impressive mate - I have no idea how difficult it was to do, but with a few more keyframes to smooth it up it'd be great. I especially like the head bob!

Cheers Cambo, they're funny things animated gifs, because they don't seem to have a framerate... the primitive bastards! They just go with whatever the browser thinks is good... they're followers with no will of their own. God, I hate them.

both of those books are good

good... but not great. Not like Green Eggs and Ham.

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no

no?
fiddlesticks! |:/

I really enjoy saying your username.

nose-army is pretty fun too!
I see you like in the same state of australia as I do, Victoria, but you live there before christ. That's pretty freaky. /:0

When I was a youngun' (late 90's) I got accustomed to animation by using the Game Boy Camera, basically you could have 30 pictures and scroll through them. I made pagefuls of different animation frames and then took pictures of them and watched them come to life.

However I didn't manage to make a gay-bar music loving banana animation in that time.

but you did in the end, and that's what counts.
I used to use an Amiga computer when I was 15, animating using a crappy program called moviesetter at 320x240 pixels running at about 8 frames per second. I was ripping off tex avery style jokes with cat characters and a dog that looked just like the boogley, with the loveheart eyes popping out of head and the hubba hubba sound fx. Good times, everyone was very impressed at school, because no one was doing that sort of thing in my town back then.
I remember the gameboy camera, god bless nintendo and their crazy addon gadget goodness!

That looks amazing, I'm kinda getting the feeling that there's a boogley animation coming up with the Boogley itself as protagonist? ....could be?.... please? : )

Maybe there will be jesmar, maybe there will... : )

Lul

yep! :D

nice. The book looks cool. might get it. hey ya boogley. want to join my crew. check out my page, oh and leave a review on my new flash plz-alz.

I'm on it like a fat bastard on a doughnut!

Not a bad running cycle, he looks a little out of proportion though...
could you tell me a good cheap flash software and were I can get it?

I can't tell you that, lizard man...

You try Adam Phillip's tutorials yet? :P

<a href="http://chluaid.newgrounds.com/news/post/193672">http://chluaid.newgrounds.com/news/po st/193672</a>

Great stuff, thanks for the link!