The Computer and Another Bedroom Adventure

 

About 3 weeks ago, I posted my entire bedroom, and now I want to show you what I usually do for a hobby for now on.

This is going to get alot more complicated but in a good way.

Everyone at least has a certain device they use to prepare for the future. I have my own computer now!

I'm happy because this has Digicel Flipbook, an amazing animation program that I've been practicing lately. It's been quite an experience and is useful for animators to animate in that classic 2D style. 

While Google is being a nut-head, I'm glad that such websites like DuckDuckGo and Microsoft Bing are actually sending over my pictures to the images selection. It's a good way to have more people from all over the world to see my blog and enjoy it. I'm stunned by how unpopular it's been receiving lately but I'm glad I have it. 

It's also more perfect to see on a bigger screen. 

This is when you click on the app. I love this dog. He's definitely inspired by the classic 2D style. It's really fun and exicting.

Now let's get back to my bedroom. What's going on there?

Let's talk about my DVDs. When I got one of these, I didn't know what to expect from them, I definitely was careful on picking the right genre, movies like Night and Day I was kinda worried it was going to be a talkative drama, but it does have some music scenes in it and I was relieved. 

A movie I watched this month is Broadway Melody of 1940.

I chose the DVDs that have really amusing and artistic quality to them.

I like how on the top it uses a fine font to say "Classic Musicals" instead of just something standard like Blu-ray or DVD. I also like how they keep the cast on the front of the DVD since you can barely read the people nowadays. It's very annoying.

This is the best way to create a DVD cover. Look at all the fun and interesting details. You get the index you get the exciting and rich pictures. Commonly you open up the DVD and there's barely anything on it. It's just bland blackness and a silver DVD, that's it. Man, everything has to be all about the big picture nowadays. 

In all seriousness, I really missed when DVDs were actually cool and people would buy them. Streaming services can be useful but I don't think it comes as close as watching something anytime without paying every month to watch something you really want to enjoy.

Here's another movie I watched recently, Summer Stock. While that movie is awesome, not really the DVD set. Yeah, this is the opposite of Broadway Melody's. I'm sure they were trying to hurry and make money somehow and get it over with so that people can buy the movie, but I was expecting more personality with this.

But obvious plus, the front and back cover is fabulous.

Yes, I do have a TV in my room. My DVD player runs these old movies on a full screen ratio which is very useful. I am more drawn to the 4:3 aspect ratio but I think on a more bigger TV or phone, it's better to experience there and also is respected to the original format of the film. 

The idea of having everything you like when your resting up sleeping in your bed is magical. It feels more safe and less haunted than a minimalistic and expensive room.

  

I had this Looney Tunes comic book for years. It's better than the cheap and bland 40s-50s ones. 

I been reading alot of my Little Golden Books and not much of this which is a real sign since I'm here looking at all the stellar drawings and personality with the characters. 

Lastly for now, I have some interesting drawings that might be the first artmania cartoon I might ever make. 

You can see how simple and easy the design of the dog is. I called it Generic Dog Tales because the dog is sure "generic". 

I'm Getting It.

 

I'm getting the Preston Blair Animation Book for Christmas. I can't wait. I'm going to have the best christmas ever. 

First of all I've been loving researching on how to animate like how classic animation used to do it and I still think it's useful for modern animators to this day.

You call tell I'm beginning to be a pro and I'm using a trustworthy pencil to draw. Using pen is kinda a mistake.

The future is looking bright, I just have to keep drawing some good things for y'all because enjoyment is the best part in life.

Droopy's front face I did all on my own. It looks exactly like how he looks in front of his view.

I actually love the designs alot on these pages. The egg shapes on the left are useful. 

I would definitely say the preston blair book made me draw more lively. 

This was before I knew anything about classic animation and model sheets.

Im definitely involved using screens most of the time but when I get older I'll start to get more active oriented and have the book I have in the future. I mostly looked at interesting websites in the first place to discover the guys name and sketches.

Thanks to Digicel, I've been starting animating a few files already and it's a really simple and fun app. Alot of recent legendary animators recommended it like Don Bluth and Eric Goldberg. 

Can't wait to be making content on YouTube like this 🙌 

And not this. 👎

Animation like this is timeless and I would say it's still used and loved by most animators today including myself. I know there are different styles of art and I think that's awesome. I'm willing to go through a approach to homage classic animation, slapstick and classic actors for all audiences. 

Classic Cartoon Model Sheets

 

Classic Cartoon Model Sheets have been a resource for animators to draw the characters and movements for nearly a century now and is one of the most iconic things when studying animation not only because there is rotation and expressions behind the scenes, but it's generally important. Like me these pictures I'm showing you can give you a perspective of the creations of characters and how they should work. You may think this is difficult and hard to draw, but it's easy for young animators like me to do anything your heart desires to make a pleasing cartoon for everyone. 

Here's how I first discovered them.

It all started when I almost finished 11th grade, I was overwhelmed alot of the time cuz I had to go 5 days a week at school, and my classes were boring, mostly scribbled on my sketchbook and would do anything for making cartoons like Tex Avery and Disney until I looked into an animation website and this is what basically was the first picture I saw, "Construction Of The Head". I said "What the heck is this?" and something like "That's just utter logic nonsense!" I was kinda stubborn as a 16 year old and didn't know how to be more confident, so I rarely cared about the thing. 

A few days later after my complaints, I started to get along with it, it felt like a trusted tool and could save me from animating and learning how to rotate my characters. This is what classic animation was like back then for the most part. Mostly 1940s animation was like that. Heck it all started back in the 30s. 

I was starting to like classic animation just for these model sheets alone, and the style it brought for. After graduating 11th grade, I started to get myself into watching Fleischer cartoons, Classic Disney shorts, and more Tom and Jerry. I was extremely joyful more than ever and had more interests in my life except having only Looney Tunes be a thing to me. And by that time when I watched classic cartoons, I was more into looking at certain aesthetics from that time period. The 20s to 50s. Those decades also had the best music ever, the best entertainers, the best movies, and one of the best magazine covers to date.

    Some Donald Duck model sheets. Amazing.

                                      Cute.

The person who decided to invent the idea of having cartoon characters and models being used for guidance is genius.

Now you would say this, "All of these model sheets were specifically made when cartoonists needed to draw it by hand and not on screen, and while that is true, when cases happen when you animate on a computer, the easiest bet is to draw it handrawn first and then once you feel good about the way you designed your character, the face, the rotation, you can simply follow the paper you just drew and draw it on the screen. It may not be extremely fluid but it's a good way to know your route to animating what most people do nowadays. Including me which I use Digicel Flipbook and it's amazing as a beginner animator. 

And while I'm almost finished I want to show you my model sheets I drawn when I was 16.

I will see you all next time on what I will cover next. Have a good day. Bye-a! 👋