I'm a computer graphics programmer who occasionally still makes art.
Age 28, Male
UBC
Toronto, Canada
Joined on 2/8/09
I think you have a really bright future ahead! Being a programmer who embraces animation will make you fun to work with if you end up in the game industry.
Now that NATA is over it's cool that you can look back at this huge body of work from the past six months - there are kids coming out of college for animation who have smaller portfolios than you do now. Keep us in the loop as everything progresses from here!
Thanks!
...well, I am not sure if I'll actually be able to upload the music video here when it's done, so I might just have to make a news post about it. We'll have to see. But whenever I can, I'll be sure to keep Newgrounds in the loop! :)
I did expect that Emrox would win with DAT animation. However, I feel yours had a better concept.
Interesting... animating as a hobby, then go for a bachelor's degree for programming (not really, but close). Tom's right! I took first the math route on school (being a nerd or sth), but haven't finished college yet XD. Good that you live in Canada, good universities there, believe it or not!
thanks!
And yeah, my problem is that I can't decide where to go because there are a lot of good options. As far as university problems go, it's a pretty good problem to have!
Its true ive been watching you from a far the past year, your work has gone from "yeah it's good but nothing "amazing" to wow that's some solid animation!! Congrats and Good luck, you are a good animator.
thanks!
I echo what the boss said. I cant tell you how much easier it is to work with programmers that understand and appreciate the animation world. The whole process just goes smoother when you make a game. From making test engines and stuff.
right, I guess so! I haven't ever actually made a game with animators other than myself before the game jam, but that seemed to go smoothly enough. If I ever have an actual good idea for a game (which might not happen for a long while), hopefully this experience will help!
i think you might be on to something really good with the progress checker program, i know time management is a huge issue for myself when animating. if you developed it to the point where it ran in conjunction with flash (if that's even possible) that would be awesome.
Well I am not sure that I can make it run in conjunction with Flash because I'm not sure how to handle it if people don't animate their scenes in order (like I usually get the audio done, and then maybe work on bits and pieces in the middle of the timeline.) What I'm doing instead is making a program that lets you make storyboards and play them back in real time, and then check off the scenes as you go (like for each scene you can check whether you have done sound for it, animated it, coloured it, and made the background.) And then based on how much of each scene is checked off and how long the scene is, at calculates the time left.
You did great! Very very impressive stuff. We should work on something together some time, if you'd be interested ;)
At your age, what you've accomplished and the fact that you have goals in mind is a lot more than most. So I'm gonna say you should feel pretty good about yourself.
I'm gonna have to try the progress program too!
francisyfl
Uhhh, that sounds neat, a program that lets you do storyboars and then calculates the progress, nice!!!
Pahgawk
Right now all I have is a little drawing application, but saving the images isn't hard, and storing them along with information about how long each shot lasts shouldn't be hard either. I just need to program it so you can change the order of scenes and also play it back and such. And if I can, maybe figure out how to use tablet pressure. And then add the algorithms from the progress tracking program.