Not going to therapy StormStarDragon 2024-04-05 | Audio is from Tom Cardy's "Repress it!" short: youtube.com/shorts/VAhh5pQyFxUIf musical comedy is your thing, you'll enjoy it! I was looking to do some animated acting practice then stumbled into the glorious sass in "Repress it" and had to start doodling hahahaI've been doing some more beak lipsync, as well! I think it's coming along alright! :)There were lots of fun faces to draw in here xD There's some more rough animation in the file, but I'm a newbie and unsure as to how credits work here on Youtube, so I wanted to test with something small first. If it's not okay to use this audio or I need to edit something, let me know and I'll hop to it!
Dragon Totem | Fire FX Animation StormStarDragon 2024-09-17 | Felt like animating some fire FX : )Swoosh! :D
Wild Accusations | Rough Animation StormStarDragon 2024-09-04 | Audio snippet from: Jerma985! Thanks for the recommendation, Issac! I love the chaotic energy in it! xD--Rough animation's all done! :D...and Planter's found herself under some wild accusations...--Planter was born with deformed hind legs, so she moves around with her front paws, wing knuckles, and tail! Posing took a little while, given how much was going on, but I'm happy with how it came out! : )Planter's doodle page is up on Twitter and Instagram if you'd like to see her in colour! :Dtwitter.com/StormStarDragon/status/1831302050694471818instagram.com/p/C_frbF0u7Ct
Newsie | Lackadaisy Fan Animation StormStarDragon 2024-08-03 | I thought I'd make a little animation to say congratulations to the creators, cast, and crew of Lackadaisy for earning a golden play button! Keep up the awesome work, everyone! :DAlso, I love Newsie's design - I can't wait to see 'em in the show! Hehe
Neo-Meso Post | Fan Animation StormStarDragon 2024-07-10 | Quest Complete! I made a little fan animation for the "Neo-Meso Post" indie project! The world needs more dinosaur shows!! (I may or may not be biased on that hahaha)I love the idea of adventuring post office dinos, and the official artwork is so vibrant and charming! Give it a look sometime! :D
2D Animation Demo Reel | 2024 StormStarDragon 2024-07-02 | A collection of works I've been up to for the past year! c:Fun stuff! :D ------ Come say hi! ------Portfolio website: faeriedragonstudios.caTwitter: twitter.com/StormStarDragonInstagram: instagram.com/stormstardragon
Tell Two Lies | Rough Animation StormStarDragon 2024-06-25 | I had a lot of fun with the last gryphon animation, so I made another one! This time I nabbed some audio from the 11 Second Club to practice more acting! c:Roughs and lipsync are in! Onto cleanup! Zoomzoom!
Compositing Highlights | Ramshackle StormStarDragon 2024-04-19 | I also got to work on compositing for #ramshackle !Out of ~45 comp shots, I picked a small handful to highlight, here! : )All of the compositing was done inside Toon Boom Harmony~My favourite shot to work on was definitely the campfire scene! It was a really satisfying way to wrap up production with Ana's awesome track playing in the background meanwhile : )
Wing Asset Lineup | Ramshackle FX StormStarDragon 2024-04-15 | I really enjoy animating flying critters, so I was very excited to be tasked with developing and animating wing assets for God-Maggot in #ramshackle! :DHere are the 2D animated assets I made and some of their use in the film!The awesome 3D model and animation of God-Maggot's body is by Sinister_Cid on Twitter and Instagram! : )
My Rough Animation for Ramshackle StormStarDragon 2024-04-12 | Aaaaaa Ramshackle's pilot is almost at 2 million views!! It's crazy to try and visualize just how many people that is! :o I'm so glad to see people are enjoying the film! To celebrate, I thought I'd share my rough animation shots! :DFX and compositing highlights to come later~ *Quick note: When Skipp slides and dodges two zombies around 2:11, the lurching zombies in the background were a crowd asset, not animated by me. I wanted to clarify that just in case, since I do tend to add coloured mattes behind my roughs. : )
Ramshackle Bloopers | Rocket Maggot StormStarDragon 2024-04-11 | Ramshackle blooper time??When animating Maggot's ascent, I absolutely got a fit of the giggles and had to do this first xDHe's seen enough and he's OUTTA here! Hahahaha
Shield Spark FX Test (Contains flashes!) StormStarDragon 2024-04-05 | Originally part of a 1-hour animation challenge amongst friends, I ended up inking some things afterwards to make the underlying work clearer. I might come back to this one again and add FX to the barriers and maybe some lighting onto Ribbit? We'll see. It was a fun exercise, regardless! c:
Bad Present | Animation Exercise StormStarDragon 2024-04-05 | A sketchy 2D animation exercise from a little while ago featuring one of my gryphon critters :) Timing chart included, for anyone curious of the breakdowns!~
A Calm Place | WIP 5: FX & Compositing StormStarDragon 2023-12-19 | It's done! Yay! :D In this pass, I animated the cat's drop shadow, body shadow, added static scene lighting/shadows, animated the idling sunrays, animated water highlights to match the now illuminated portions of the river, and used a particle system for the drifting dust speckles. Colour correction to boost the contrast of the scene was also done inside Harmony with some handy nodes! I'm really happy with how this one came out, start to finish! It was an experiment to animate on a living background and get the character to fit into the scene. A secondary goal with this project was animating with as few frames as possible, so I could really stretch the efficiency of the drawings. Most of the cat's animation is on 4s and 3s, with some 5s and only a few 2s thrown in! Lastly, I wanted to get everything done inside Toon Boom Harmony to make use of the program's features! The only edit I made in Adobe After Effects was stabilizing the original footage because I was just holding my phone when recording the video. I didn't bring a tripod with me hahaHere's a link to the work in progress playlist, if you'd like to see the progression stages, starting from the very beginning of path plotting to the finish line where we are now! : )youtube.com/watch?v=PgYblBTNPjw&list=PL_h9rc00kCd3Zp1u2jxabfUj8pgIFk_CoThanks for visiting! :D Have a nice day! c:----- #2danimation #handdrawnanimation #catanimation #animationwip
Zweeet Takes Flight | 2D Animation StormStarDragon 2023-12-10 | The goal in this animation was balancing the lift from the propellers and the weight of removing legs from the ground! Similar to Ribbit's agility test, Zweeet is a robot with strong mobility! Once they're done walking around collecting samples of rocks/plants on new worlds, they swap into drone mode and fly back to base to share their discoveries!~Fun Fact: Most of the robots in Ribbit's world pick their own names based on sounds they encounter! Ribbit, obviously coming from a frog-like creature, and Zweeet coming from the sound a drill makes! : )Thanks for reading! :DHave a good day! c:
3-Style Jump | Rough 2D Animation | Ribbit StormStarDragon 2023-12-09 | A 2D animation exercise from last year~ Ribbit is an agile robot, and I wanted to see how they'd navigate various terrain challenges while making the most of being functional as a biped and quadruped! : )The second view with the static camera has the timing charts included for those curious of how I broke down the animation. c:
A Calm Place | WIP 4: Clean Up & Colour StormStarDragon 2023-12-04 | Just the compositing left to go! :D
2D Animated Painted Dog Sprint | WIP Tiles | 2023 StormStarDragon 2023-12-02 | I've always loved Painted Dogs / African Wild Dogs and wanted to animate one at some point! They've got some tricky fur patterns, and Kiwi has some more changes to make (particularly in the face markings for expression clarity), but I'm pretty happy with her overall! : )I don't think this project is going to be one that's wrapped up this year, but I'd like to see it through at some point! I've got some jumps, twists, and chomps drafted, waiting for tie-down~ If you'd like to see Kiwi's turnaround sheet, it's up on my Twitter/Bluesky! : )twitter.com/StormStarDragon/status/1730972235349848111Thanks for visiting! Have a nice day! c: -------------------#2danimation #handdrawnanimation #animated
A Calm Place | WIP 3: Roughs StormStarDragon 2023-10-07 | WIP 3: The roughs are all inbetweened, and I added some acting at the end to give 'em more personality. : )
A Calm Place | WIP 2: Keys & Breakdowns StormStarDragon 2023-09-19 | WIP 2: Keys and breakdowns sketched in, and the footprints laid out. : )
A Calm Place | WIP 1: Rough Planning StormStarDragon 2023-09-14 | I took a video and thought I'd animate a critter on top of it. : ) Work In Progress (WIP) 1: plotting out the route and steps the critter will take.
