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If you are lost right now and need something better in your life, there is something you can do. On a clear night go where you can see the stars and look up at them. See what you see. Figure out what you saw, what it is, and what it isn't. It's how something new begins.
Upgraded to the latest MonoGame version and adjusted how the content is loaded. So much better now than playing around constantly with that MGCB project. It's just place content that has a configured wildcard in that location and bam it is in. Great stuff.
The fully hand drawn cel animated character now walks around in his backyard. His cane probably needs to be a lighter color I think so it is easier to see, but all in all I am happy with how he fits in.
Fully colored hand drawn walking turtle character. This is 39 images in sequence making him walk. I am nearing finished with his left walking animation now as well. I am getting faster at this. :)
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I've continued the turtle character walking animation into the coloring phase. You can see most, but not all, frames are colored now. The process is fun to watch it go from sketch to solid over time like this. Each frame adds a moment of color and makes him more alive.
What I have learned in hand drawn cel animation a mistake will have to be there for at least 4 frames to be reality to human perception. If there is an error in a single frame it is a flash that the brain removes from the sequence it sees and the viewer never perceives it.
Refined the sketches of the animation for him walking more. He now has his second arm and some smoother shell motion. I think it is on to coloring this next to get a final animation of him walking right.
Our turtle character is starting to walk. I need to add his other hand poking out during the animation, then color the thing out. This is hand drawn cel animation at 24 fps Disney style.
Now you can see the entire climbing animation of the squirrel. It is actually 4 animations and a layer transition. The game engine is handling it well with events and real time creation of dynamic entities. MonoGame is holding everything fine as well. The Multiplane camera system is showing success.
The squirrel animation for climbing the tree has its second part now. Here is the preview in TexturePacker. It is amazing how all the imperfections go away once the 50+ images are tied together into motion.
So Prior to 1913 when the federal income tax was implemented the time in congress was very limited by individuals. Once the federal govt got infinite money from the citizens the members of congress started staying longer and longer. That is when they started laundering money and wanting to stay forever. Probably started rigging elections etc to stay and get that cash for as long as they could.
I drew 52 images to make this squirrel climb. All the while wondering if each goofy looking image would add up to something. My dream was he would look like he was actually climbing. Each image on its own looked so poor, but man my jaw dropped when I saw him climb for the first time. Magic!
I have started a journey, a new one performing the meditations of René Descartes the philosopher from the 1600's I have no idea what I will learn about myself of the mind, but you can join me as I am documenting my experiences in my posts. Here is my account of Meditation I - Lots of doubts here.
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The controlled chaos of 2d animation looks so interesting when everything is combined into one image as sketches. Our squirrel is learning to jump to that tree.
