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[ivanisavich]

Dude....

THAT WAS BLOODY FANTASTIC!!!

Some of the best 2d animation ever posted here on cgtalk. Love your style. 5 stars.

[KevinCCAD]

Nice style for a simple story. My only suggestion would be to post some stills so this thread gets more attention.

[Sphere♥]

You really have all around Talent.

[save often]

wa ho, thats some really really nice animation you got there, lovely poses and a simple short story. can`t see anything to crit.

well done. but as kevin ccad said, get some pics posted. i can see this one going on the front page.

[dreamart]

Fantastic!!!

[Novak]

Awesome work. Love it. Keep it up.

Looks really great.

Greetz, Novak

[neiy0]

Very well executed, a bit dry in some places, but the skate tricks were bang on! Good use of silence.. 4*'s for originality

What type of animation tool did you use for this?

Cheers :beer:
-Neil

[Streen]

Absolutely excellent. Being an exskater myself the weight and rotation of everything was very well done. When he ollied I even noticed how the board left his back foot. Very good. :applause:

[kira-hime]

Wow. That was incredible, really good work! Five stars from me. :thumbsup:

[Ranimate]

Jay! Ma man!!!

Awesome work. Go Go Sheridan.

Kol hakavod!

Ran

[vfxmatt]

Loved your style man.and your sense of timing in the edit was really done well.

Interesting blend of 3d and 2d .Not many people get it right or create the right balance between the elements but you seem o have got it down.cool:)

[apeman]

awesome work; your score blended perfectly with your action (always like that jazzy drum funk) and it was doubly cool that he FELL after he made the jump. Your colour palette and dynamic action were great.

Hope to see more, you got a website?

[rafaelrubio]

Amazing! :eek: 5 stars from me! :thumbsup:

[ragdoll]

it could easily be an adult swim show! try and submit it in adultswim.com and they might air it on tv!:thumbsup:


way better than those [as] home grown halfass shows they make...

[casesensative]

I watched this without sound (if there was any), so this is a review from a skater - without sound:

Your style is sick, your animations were fluid...and sick, the skateboarding was sick, and overall the whole presentation was sick. I was into the little short the whole time, and you told the story well.

The grind along the rail was awesome and the 360 flip over the cat was great.

I would definately watch this if it were some kind of little mini-series about this kid.

Where can i see more? =p

[sKullzao]

jsut giving u two thumbs up!

is a sweet 2d animaton, as they said on the start one of the ebst ie ver show here on cgtalk

[Slurry]

Very nicely done. I love seeing 2D stuff on this forum. You'll have no trouble finding work after school.


Art

[Essex]

that was very impressive. I've watched it about 7 times already. i agree with ragdoll, you should submit this to adult swim. I could definitely see them airing it.

[mondo-ray]

yo jay,
great to see yer film again!
solid work dude, solid.
just keep up the good work throughout the year.

[lollygag]

WOW.. thats is Unreal

[Eldrego]

I'm loving it. More please!

[theBIGmack60]

WOW!

I really enjoyed watching the kid try to get away!
The blue environment really set a wicked mood for it.

A big standing ovation from me!

[okkio]

great animation... good to see 2d animation in the forum!

[DonaldKasper]

What software did you use to create the project?

// Note: I am an idiot who needs to read more.

[bscott]

Nice stuff, Keep it up.

[MMuster]

Awesome!!! How long did it take to produce this? The style is really cool.

Bye, Nico

[Bleen]

You get my congratulations and my 5 stars on a job very nicely executed :D

[Jake[BE]]

Great animation! And great drumpiece too, I really loved it!

[MegaManZZ]

hey.. i know i haven't wrote on this post for a while, but ive been very very buisey.........
Thanks to all who complimented my work and thanks to ragdoll and Essex with the suggestions to send the peace to Adult swim........ The feedback is truly truly appriciated.... I hope to post some more stuff soon. Perhaps artwork of mine..

Im havin Trouble uploading the images from my film, so i don't know if they will appear.. I just recently edited my first post on this thread.. so i don't know why the images aren't showing but i hope the problem will magically fix itself. but as a last resort you could always click the link.

Apeman i don't got a website.. but hopefully a blog soon. followed by a real website:)

to answer a lot of questions regarding the film. including neiy0 and DonaldKasper Questions.
This film was all hand drawn.. painted in photoshop, brought together in after effects. and composited in maya.. took me about 5 months to produce the final peace..(not including storyboarding)

Just to point out the drumming was done by my good bud Brandon Robins who's drumming just blows me away.. Thruthfully, he pulled the drum track out of his *ss in like 3 days... He is a trully Talented Drumer...

And i wanna give shout outs to Anxskater Streen and casesensative just for being skaters:)


Thanks again.. hope to chat with you guys soon

[scarla]

2 thumbs up!!! This is an absolute master piece, i love it... from the creative concept to the overall originality, good quality work.

[mike0006]

Bravo! I vote for this to be slapped up on the frontpage! 5 stars!

[Immortal1490]

how this managed to not get plugged is beyond me.

Amazing work on your behalf!

Great job!

[RockinAkin]

Man - thats an amazing animation - I love the character and environment design.

This very much deserves a plug. :thumbsup:

[punklover]

man !! that was bloody insane ! defenetly front page !:thumbsup:

[Loulu79]

Mega....not only your work is bravely original (brave because I hardly see any 2D animations here .... and it is original), but you got a friend who can give you original music? Sweeeeeeeet!


Everything's cool...so I think you better put it on Adult Swim...Cartoon Network...film festivals? Who knows. This rocks. Agreed with the 5 stars!:thumbsup:

[SheepFactory]

Awesome stuff man , love the style and camera.

*plugged

[sconlogue]

Everyone has already said it but it should be said again. Great style. Sense of movement and wait nicely executed and stylish. Inspiring work. Kudos to you.

[MasterChef]

Wow!!! Fantastic! :thumbsup:
~What was used to create it exactly?

[JDex]

Man... in no way am I exagerating... that should have been entered in the Siggraph Animation Contest...

OUTSTANDING!!!

I see a bright future for this chap.

[TopherMartini]

Simply awesome :buttrock:

The style and aesthetic blew me away, so original and smooth. Keep it up man!

[SalmonGod]

hey I agree with every compliment that's been said here so far, it really made me smile

the best thing about this piece is just how down to earth it is... the kid's obviously a talented skater but there's nothing fantastic about the story... it's just a kid who stumbles into a bit of trouble... he falls, runs out of breath, and really appeals to the audience as an ordinary human character who barely pulls himself out of a little adventure

to make something like that so entertaining is a great accomplishment when most CG is so focused on things that are out of this world

[Romero]

Well done dude, cool style.

[Icarus]

thats awsome, i love the feel and colors to it, the animation was really smooth aswell really suited the whole feel of things... congrats on the Plug :D

[MIKECORRIERO]

Really cool man,
In some respects it slightly reminded me of some of the animation shorts in "The Animatrix" but with a style unique all its own. It would have been interesting if a little more drama and dynamics were added to the final Jump across the buidling and then perhaps a resolution as an ending ie; the kid laying on the ground after the fall from his jump looks up and sees another cop staring overhead at him and the kid just kind of smiles nervously. Really fun though - nice job

[storyForge]

absolutely inspirational. thank you for sharing that.

[woadiestyol]

Very, very cool.

As has been said, I like the fact that this story is down to earth. The fact that there aren't spaceships whizzing around or princess-warriors slaying demons forces the viewer to focus on the fantastic animation without worrying so much about the content. It works beautifully.

Rock on.

[marques1983]

Fantastic work, very fluid work. 50 gold stars for you buddy.

[Lorecanth]

Nice work but I'm suprised no one's commented on the white edge matteing, looks like a pre multiplication error in comp instead of a design choice. Otherwise great animation.

[Oh Paris Paris]

not bad

skater is cool

[Yina]

hey, andrew bodor actually showed this to a bunch of us before, well done! i really like the style that you're used for this animation. very interesting flow of story too. :bounce:

[gutknut]

well done man...

[ninjacore]

Gooood! :deal:! Absolutly splendid dear fellow.

[Liuba]

Beautiful movie! It's really inspires me.
Good job! Keep it up :thumbsup:

[Elsie]

Absolutely love your style, very inspiring. Nothing more to add, just my five stars :)

[fusion_art]

oooooooooh my gggooooooooddd !!!

:bounce::bounce::bounce::eek:

[phoenix]

Lovly ... work nice ....

Regards

[carlw]

awesome, i love it.

[loocas]

Mega wicked man! :buttrock:

Totally pro 2d animation! And the plot was great as well...

http://forums.cgsociety.org/images/rating/rating_5.gif from me no doubt! :applause:

[MegaManZZ]

I jost got an e-mail from photobucket saying..


Your Photobucket account MegaManzZ has exceeded 2000 Megabytes of bandwidth this
month. In order to keep free accounts available and highly reliable we cannot
offer unlimited bandwidth on free accounts. If your account exceeds 2500 MB of
bandwidth then direct linking to your account will be disabled for the remainder
of the month. If that happens, then any posted links to your album images will
be replaced with a 'Photobucket bandwidth exceeded' icon for the remainder of
the month.


Man thats's cool..

now i gotta figure out how to fix it. lol...
you guys are great...
tring to figure out how to keep the front page of cgtalk from becoming an error message...

about the anti-alias thing.. ya it's due to compression of the file.. sorry about that guys.. i do have a highquality version of this film thats just a bit to big for hosting on the web...

[Stillwell]

I'm really looking forward to seeing it.

I just hope somebody's going to host a mirror.

[CarlCampbell]

That was really cool! Enjoyed it quite a bit. Good to see traditional animation is still going strong. I'm working on a piece myself right now. The only thing that bugged me from a- seemingly- technical point of view is some weird Antialiasing artifacts around the edges of some of the buildings... Did anyone else notice those? Probably some conflict with resolution and/or resizing or something...
Regardless, great job and kudos for the soundtrack too!

[Mr D]

Its sounds good - if you could some how post it again I'd love to see it :)

[HellBoy]

bloody hell, I can't believe I missed such a good clip, everyone has possitive replies and...and I can't watch it :buttrock:

but well done you :thumbsup:

[Lee3dee]

pacing was great, art style was awesome. I was expecting him to get the cuffs on, but that last desparate ending was great! Congratulations on an awesome animated short! :D

[Nazgul]

mirror pleeeeeeaaassseeee!!!

[PaLantir]

Love the style showing in the picks! Someone can post a mirror for download the clip?
I miss it.

Thanks

[JakobWelner]

If I can get a hold of the video in some way, I might be able to mirror it.
Can't promise any extreme bandwidth but I should have unlimited trafic, so it should be better then none at all.

PM me for FTP upload access if you have the clip.

[JoZeF-3D]

Is there another working link to this?? Perhaps another mirror? I'd really like to see this piece of work that everyone is raving about.



PJ

[bluemagicuk]

Someone on this thread send me the file .. i have a mirror.
Edit
Going to sleep back 6pm (19 hours)

[casesensative]

Finally got this up on the front page!

Congratulations, its well deserved.

[Firefox]

I have heard sooo much about the clip... but carnt see it myself... please post a mirror guys..

cheers

[israelyang]

good job Jay, make me proud.

[ratbaggy]

hanging out to see this.

PLLLLLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAASE someone mirror - seems pretty pointless to front page it if no one can see it.



:)

[HellBoy]

I believe blue magic is willing to give a mirror so anyone who saved the clip on their hard drive please send it to him or MegaManZZ can send it to him

[Hoser]

I believe blue magic is willing to give a mirror so anyone who saved the clip on their hard drive please send it to him or MegaManZZ can send it to him

And JakobWelner as well.

Come on somebody, I wanny see this darn video! :)

[ColbyBuss]

yes please

Im so interested!!

[Hoser]

New link is up, check out the first post.

[Hoser]

Oh yeah, it's great! :buttrock:

[IanB]

Jay is a homo..jokes..sick film

[Thr35h0ld]

Holy crap. That's awesome. I haven't seen such good 2d in a long time. That's all hand-drawn, right? Whoa. With all the 2-frame bullcrap anime that have invaded Western TV programming, this kinda stuff is a real breath of fresh air.

[chlywly]

Very interesting style, great work... only crit I have is the small white halo around the main character as he skates etc, not sure if you key'd him into the scene and thats the by product but its distracting.

[PaLantir]

Finally get it! Very very nice! Great work.

Bravo ^_^

[troyer]

One mirror is down, here is another one.
http://timon-royer.com/EscateAggressiveDynamics.mov

[jsb123]

awesome work, love the style

[Mr D]

Thanks for reposting the link!

Nice work Jay -- did you work on Carl Squared for Pip Animation?

I did see this before; someone showed me the 2005 Sheridan student demo reel, this past summer, and, to me, this was one of the films that stuck out above the rest.

I think the cool visual style is what first makes this piece stand out, followed by good use of visual story telling, and dynamic timing; which works well. I love the little build of anticipation when he is confronted by the cop on the roof, and then the slow-mo money shot when he is flying threw the air.

I watched if a few times and If I had a critique, and this is nit-picky at best, it would be that the initial impact when he hits the pipe, before he hits the ground, could be a hair stronger, faster, perhaps even taking out a few frames, between when he hears the car alarm and hits the pipe, but as I say that is being really nit-picky.

Well done :), it’ll be a good piece for your demo reel. Keep up the good work.

[Cavematty]

Awesome and outstanding piece mate. You should be proud of this one. Love it. Ill watch it over and over, and when my mates are over for a few beers ill show it to them it's that cool. I do 3D animation but have done a little 2D. I cant wait to see how your 3D work goes. I dont think you should be so worried about the fur for your rabbit. Its all about storytelling and animation. Your pacing etc is already great.
Please, please PLEASE dont fall into the 3D CG trap of getting caught up and lost in the tools and tricks and photorealism etc. Treat it as a means to an end not the end. Cos you already have so much of what u need to learn down pretty well.
ah well thats my 2 cents.
thanks for posting matey. i enjoyed it :D

[Wonderer]

most impressive

[MegaManZZ]

Thanks Neostar for posting another mirror...!!!

Mr D... yes i did work on Carl Squares and i do agree with you on the pipe drop.... thanks bud..

Cavematty... I know what yer saying about the 3-D trap.. and believe me im all with you. Just for the record nothing will take away my passion for 2-d animation... i am hoping to work on another 2-d film sometime in my life..

[wybl]

that was awesome i love the skateboard physics you put into it in combo with the dry sound made by perfectly landed tricks

edit: i did notice one odd thing: when approaching the cat he rides forward but the trick he does over the cat is performed fakie (i guess a fakie 180 kickflip), so riding with the body 180 degrees turned, how did he changed foot postition so quickly?

[HellBoy]

wow, I mean wow, well done, the design was great, I love the colour of the whole atmosphere

well done you :applause: :thumbsup:

[michael-olszak]

THE FORCE IS STRONG WITH THIS ONE !!


dude this anim ROCKS MAN!!

like the others already said: love the style, the execution, colors and all...
the only thing that fell into my attention is the expression of the mouth, i kind of didn't like the fact that it was almost the same ( the "oooo" expression) throughout the short.

other then that, awesome. well deserved front page material dude.
keep it up


cheers.

[bluemagicuk]

Mirror

http://www.bluemagik.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/EscateAggressiveDynamics.mov

[Greenwu]

excellent work, enjoyed every second.

[jporter313]

Wow, really good. Passion pictures... here you come.

[c4d-jack]

Very well done! I like the organic hand-drawn style and the loose shapes of the objects. Also you did a very good cutting job, the simple shots string perfectly to form a story.

Only two critics:
1. I wonder about the bright outlines of the characters. It somehow looks a bit too 'layered', the characters don't become one with the background.

2. The movie's too short ;-)

Greetings,
Jack

[harmonic01]

That was freak'n AWESOME!!! :) Great job. Just fantastic. Really enjoyed it. Oh and I agree, the movie is too short.:thumbsup:

[ReBootedOne]

*bows before the awesomeness*
YOU. are. the. man.

-eric

[mayazeus]

That was one of the best I've seen in a really really long time. I've been working on some traditional stuff as well, but it's tough. Great job!

[Suricate]

Hi Jay,

great work ! :bowdown:Love the style ... Just one question though, as I am a bit puzzled: How did you manage to get the animation right with just using Photoshop and AfterEffects? I would guess that this is a bit of an akward workflow compared to using dedicated 2D animation apps (like PlasticAnimationPaper, Mirage, theTab, Flash, ToonBoom, moho etc.). I'm currently also exploring 2D animation (got a bit bored by 3D ...), so any insight on this would be helpful.

[MegaManZZ]

Hey Guys . well i manages to get 100 posts for me film.. thanks you all for posting:)



And to answer the question about how it's made... its all hand drawn...the good'ol ways

[Suricate]

And to answer the question about how it's made... its all hand drawn...the good'ol ways

You mean handrawn with a pencil and pegged sheets of paper !?
Even more RESPECT ! :thumbsup::thumbsup:

[MegaManZZ]

YES.. I drew it all on a peg sheet. like a good ol animator.
and flipped it by hand.

[Favian001]

I like the fact that you kept it traditional, must have taken awhile. How long just for the sketches? Nice color scheme as well.

[seantree]

BIG thumbs up from a long time skater(almost 20 years). You seemed to nail every trick, from the tuck, to the compression when landing etc.. The character design is great! give us another episode!!

[nathanwallis]

Fantastic man, right on...thought it was brilliant. Love the tribute to ET too...great work...

[splintah]

three letters:

. W . O . W .

[Tilstrom]

great work, this is cool. :thumbsup:

[MegaManZZ]

the entire thing took me 5 months

that includes, rough animation, clean animation, scanning, coloring, compositing.

I really REALLY REALLY wanna make another skater short..
currently the CG project im working on isn't a skater film im very sad to say... it's more of a fight scene... but im only doing that so i can learn cg enough to make a sweet cg skater film...

i would also like to make another traditional cg film.. my art work has definitly gotten much better.........


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v623/MegaManzZ/UrbanSk8.jpg




http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v623/MegaManzZ/simply1.jpg




http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v623/MegaManzZ/DJJumbo.jpg






http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v623/MegaManzZ/FlameBoyUnrEl.jpg

[Shaggy]

:thumbsup: awsome, 5 stars
there is nothing more to say that was some of the best 2d ive seen in a long while.
keep it up
peace
shags

[michael-olszak]

Love your style man. the drawings are really cool


i hope you'll get a website and put some more on-line.



keep it up.

[Kid-Mesh]

Awesome, I really enjoyed it and the animation was very good.

[hiphopcr]

Ill freaky nah nah man, you're my hero

[Dagibit]

Wow, that was an awsome story... and so well done! nothing more:bowdown:

[Draco-84]

Very damn cool!
Soundtrack was great too... never underestimate the power of music to tell a story!
Great work!

[oishiiniku]

Wicked short! There definitely needs to be more animation about skating. One tiny crit - when he ollies up to grind the bench, it looks like he's rotating to do a lipslide but then it cuts to him k-grinding. But yeah, other than that, excellent stuff!

Ta, Nick.

[vfs3d54shivani]

I like the animation style. It syncs well with the models and lighting. Its closer to Anime. Beauty :D

[maTTTurner]

It was a great animation. But the thing I enjoyed most was the sound the skateboard made. That sound instantly took me back to my childhood doing ollies. And when those wheels hit the ground with a clank, it was like I was there. Great use of sound effects, as well as animation.

[bluka]

I love your style I love skateboarding
nothing more to say......:twisted:

[porkchopexpress]

Well done!:thumbsup: Very, very cool.

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