really tho. nostalgia to the max over here haha.Originally Posted by PoppySquidJr
For you to animate such intense skating. All the tricks and flips in the lines. I couldn't imagine how many times you got up to smoke haha lol jokes.
you should try replicating lines from skate videos. People would go banana's.
That tre. that scoop was fresh. stomped the shit outta it with your back foot. nice!
Last edited by saunders420; 07-20-2015 at 08:45 PM.
definitely keep posting this stuff, it's a great watch
saunders420- if you got a line from a skate video you want me to animate, dont hesitate to put the video here and tell me what you wanna see and I'll give it a go. I typically animate lines that I make up since I think that's more fun. I notice it kinda takes the fun out of animating to basically trace/rotoscope something
sorry tabloid ive decided to never post anything here again suddenly :P
jk. here's today's AOTD:
Man, that sounds like a long process haha.
I'm shocked to read that you don't watch anything.
I often watch skateboarding videos, interviews with skaters and famous artists just for inspiration's sake.
I don't set out to copy anyone's path but often find myself relating.
A bit out of context but I think it can still apply.
Were you a skateboarder at any point?
Just seems a bit out of place that you would be so good without study.
Not to degrade your work, it's top notch.
I just see skating now as an endless resource to grab inspiration and ideas from.
There's the legends, the incredibly technical skaters, the creative skaters, the Hollywood stunt men skaters (William spencer) yeah I found that out, dude does stunts for movies.
don't get me wrong, I watch skate videos, but really just to get an idea for how tricks are done so I can later animate them and combine them myself. I like to think of animating as playing skate 3 but with much more finite control and limitless trick possibilities. That's why I so desperately want to be a part of a skate game. since I got kicked out of college I kinda gotta find a dayjob or prove to the art industry that I deserve a career, and a fairly popular slenderman fangame along with one not-so-popular original horror title, albeit a good start, does not set me apart from other applicants at robomodo's THPS5 department :P
a dope indie skate game would though.
I suck ass at skateboarding but attack it with unrelenting enthusiasm anyway. I ollied a 3 stair one time. best day of my life. I am pretty good at getting the board to do the flip with my feet but not so good at landing on it all the time (or even some of the time), which leads to pain, and sometimes I'd rather just apply my technique to a 3d rig and watch it play out perfectly
also, I have been animating since I was 13, so I have a pretty good knowledge of the biomechanics of movements and whatnot of a bipedal character, as those are my favourite kind. that maybe why I am good without study
Last edited by wrayayrton; 07-21-2015 at 10:55 PM.
You should watch some of the weird dudes like Mullen, Richie Jackson, Kilian Martin, It'd be neat to see some animations of weird creative tricks that people don't really do :Pdon't get me wrong, I watch skate videos, but really just to get an idea for how tricks are done so I can later animate them and combine them myself. I like to think of animating as playing skate 3 but with much more finite control and limitless trick possibilities. That's why I so desperately want to be a part of a skate game. since I got kicked out of college I kinda gotta find a dayjob or prove to the art industry that I deserve a career, and a fairly popular slenderman fangame along with one not-so-popular original horror title, albeit a good start, does not set me apart from other applicants at robomodo's THPS5 department :P
a dope indie skate game would though.
I suck ass at skateboarding but attack it with unrelenting enthusiasm anyway. I ollied a 3 stair one time. best day of my life. I am pretty good at getting the board to do the flip with my feet but not so good at landing on it all the time (or even some of the time), which leads to pain, and sometimes I'd rather just apply my technique to a 3d rig and watch it play out perfectly
also, I have been animating since I was 13, so I have a pretty good knowledge of the biomechanics of movements and whatnot of a bipedal character, as those are my favourite kind. that maybe why I am good without study
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So you do have a skating background. Good stuff.
I used to be heavy into fliptricks and all of those modern things. Been reverting lately to try and expand from the fundamentals of skating. So I'm right there with you Haha. I can break down those tricks in grave detail but I don't do much more than an Ollie these days. I'm not saying you should do animations differently, just saying there is more you could do if you wanted to. Thanks for sharing man.
If this starts getting too crowded let us know. I often hop in after I've had some coffee and the brain is at full speed haha.
@Poppy
That's what I was thinking haha.
I've watched a few interviews with richie, doesn't seem to be a ton. He is a product of the people he skates with. He has his own ideas aswell but there are skaters he feeds off of in sessions. It's an incredible growing collective thought process.
Which makes me think about these skateboarding animations. To have no limits and come up with things that would seemingly be unthought of or un attempted. You could do so much more than grinds, manuals and fliptricks but I do see why it would be satisfying. I grew up with the Sega Genisis and taught myself to make sprites, eventually I was animating them. I've never gone beyond the 8-16bit realm, but seeing it come to life was sick.
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