All Completed!

Here's the finished animation for my course's onomatopoeia project. After a week of having to write that word almost constantly, I can now actually spell it.

Overall this took about 4 days to complete - one day for making the rig and the background and whatnot, two days for the animations and then one day for editing and adding all the sound effects. It was a fun piece to make, and I learned a few little things in the process, such as how to use the network modules in ToonBoom.

A lot of the reactions I received upon showing this to my friends could basically be summed up as "I want one". Despite being some sort of strange dog/beaver/monster/platypus thing, Biscuit's cuteness shines through.

Rig Mishaps

This was the test animation I did for Biscuit's rig, but while I was in the process of creating said rig, I accidentally did something that provided some amusing results.

I wanted her to be able to open her mouth, so she has one hidden beneath the top of her head that would be shown when said part was titled upwards. However, at one point I accidentally temporarily deleted the layer with the top part of her head, and...

This happened. I'm not sure whether to find it hilarious or terrifying.

It was still just as weird when her rig was fully completed.

Introducing Biscuit

The project for my course I'm working on currently is the "onomatopoeia" brief, where we're given a series of groups of words, and we have to choose one and make a 30 second animation incorporating those words with the use of text and whatnot.

Mine is going to feature Biscuit, a strange little monster/beaver/dog/platypus thing who, like Tlun, originated from a quick silly doodle. She hasn't changed in appearance quite as drastically as Tlun did, but here are some older drawings of her, going from oldest to newest (sadly I don't have the original doodle scanned):