Mikero's Artflows

[Lunchebox]

She touches her nose when she's thinking? That's pretty dumb.

Whatever. Everyone who knows her likes it. It's pretty cute, actually.

I also pointed out I do some pretty dumb things, meaning it's no big deal.

Jesus, man. Didn't mean to insult yo' girl, dawg.

[Captain Sanoguchi]

Racial Stereotype'd.

[Mikero]

She touches her nose when she's thinking? That's pretty dumb.

Whatever. Everyone who knows her likes it. It's pretty cute, actually.

Mike's got a girlfriend! Mike's got a girlfriend!~

No. Er. That's... complicated.

She touches her nose when she's thinking? That's pretty dumb.

Whatever. Everyone who knows her likes it. It's pretty cute, actually.

I also pointed out I do some pretty dumb things, meaning it's no big deal.

Jesus, man. Didn't mean to insult yo' girl, dawg.

Nah I know, don't worry about it..... esa?

[Lunchebox]

Esa?

Do you mean ese, homes?

[Mikero]

I was gonna do ese but I went for esa 'cause it's always sounded hilarious to me since my friend drew Jesus firing a machine gun yelling "Die esa!"

[ASR]

Jésus Christov, be careful with that nailgun!

[Mikero]

Pretty sure it was just Christo, but I could be wrong.

[ASR]

I could be wrong, too. Christo makes more sense, but I always thought there was a soft V at the end, no biggie.

[Majikn]

I love that show, soooooo much.

Anyway that picture is mad skills. Especially the face and the colours.

[Mikero]

Thanks man!

Also, here are those Deputy Diaper stills from my animation. I got them like 20 minutes before I got the flu.

[preventerWIND]

Photoshopped!

Wow, these are freakin' amazing mike. Totally remind me of stuff from Frederator.

[Mikero]

Right, again; I didn't build the character. We took/stole the [flawed] Harmony builds of characters from whatever that show is from Mercury Studios.

[Abominator]

I don't know what that means, but those really are amazing.

[Mikero]

I means someone else made the art, and all the hands and other pieces that we swap out in flash animation. I just posed the character out for the animation, which I posted on page 1;

Well thanks man. And now, some more Toon Boom Harmony animation! (Harmony is a flash animation program and is about eighty billion times better than Flash for animating).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5CDrocRMO8

So I didn't make the character, just animated him.

[powerboy]

I don't care what other members say!
I think it's awesome !!!

[Captain Sanoguchi]

...We don't care what you have to say either.

[preventerWIND]

...We don't care what you have to say either.

Ironic.

[ChaosVortex]

Yes. This has been established 497 times.

[Captain Sanoguchi]

You can both go home and be violated by fire ants.

[Mikero]

I don't care what other members say!
I think it's awesome !!!

Thanks.

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Posted on:  5 February 2008, 19:58:53

Storyboarding. I bled for this since getting the flu made me lose a week of work on all my assignments, and I still don't #####in' like it. But whatever, it passes the "people can see it" test.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gg7LKxKgH-c

Red Ninja. We're doing continuations to this. The fight scene and after it at least and I think we might be fully animating one part of it.

[ChaosVortex]

It's alright. It's pretty well, and I get the jist of what's happening.

[ASR]

It was a bit confusing the first time I watched it, but I've always had trouble following storyboards, mainly because I'm thinking about how weird storyboards are and aren't they usually displayed on large boards in round-table meetings or something and not animated like I always seem to see in DVD bonus features.

Aside from my personal zaniness, good job.

[ChaosVortex]

Yeah, I always imagine a storyboard of "The Lion King" or "Alladin" because... that's the movie I saw being used when I first heard about storyboards.

It's better that way, so you can explain character dialouge rather than have actual voices, 'cause these are pretty smelly.

[Mikero]

Better what way?

It was a bit confusing the first time I watched it, but I've always had trouble following storyboards, mainly because I'm thinking about how weird storyboards are and aren't they usually displayed on large boards in round-table meetings or something and not animated like I always seem to see in DVD bonus features.

Aside from my personal zaniness, good job.

Both. They're discussed and presented with just the boards but leica reels are used for other things like timing and they use as much of the final voice overs as are available.

[Chron]

Those animation cells look nice, Mikero. It's at the level of quality of most cartoons these days, although the backgrounds and character design remind me a bit of John Kricfalusi.

Red Ninja storyboard looks good, save I think the "looking around the room" takes a bit long and seems to be a cartoony double-take.
Whoever is doing the voice for the fez-wearing scientist is excellent, by the way.

[Mikero]

I don't know who designed the character or background, I just posed him out, heh. But I might have to take it down because Mercury still owns the build.

The voices for the leica reel were done by professors, I think. That's usually how it is. The guy with the fez is called Dr. Fez. I guess you need a PhD to wear a fez.

[Chron]

Yes, you do.

[Mikero]

Oh, and I've met John K., by the way.

Posted on: 17 February 2008, 19:45:15

Roccov. A (my) character for a Mass Effect thing my friends and I are doing.

A quickish sketch from yester when I couldn't take doing homework and needed to just draw like back in the day..

Quick. So there's proportion problems and #####. I might fix in photoshop if I go to colour, or I might fix the actual drawing.

[ASR]

Nice. I don't know anything about Mass Effect, but I can appreciate the drawing. I like the design.

[ChaosVortex]

Except for the crooked leg, like you said, it's awesome.

The design itself makes up for it.

[Mikero]

Thanks guys and I don't know anything about Mass Effect either, really.

The leg really just needs a small adjustment, but not today!

[MOX]

My friend told me Mass Effect got banned in some country for displaying a lesbian scene.

The leg isn't too off in my opinion, it's pretty hard to draw it at that angle already. Nice work.

[Mikero]

It got a lot of heat for "sex scenes" in which there's no any sex that's actually show, just suggestive. I think it's something like how in FF7 you can go on the date, but more grown up. Kind of like how San Andreas got ##### for Hot Coffee but this is probably even less of a "big deal".

Posted on: 22 February 2008, 21:15:30

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Hokay. I just finished this naught minutes ago. It's the rough of my pan background that's due thursday. When/If I get the clean version done I'll see what I can do about scanning it, but it will be on seperate levels and that will be quite annoying. It all might look like a mess to you though, but if you get it that's good.

On the paper with the green thumbnails, the bottom one is the thumb I got approved - The thumb for that pan.

The mug fits an entire kettle of tea and is like by best friend these days. I've had 4 hours of actual sleep since waking up Saturday morning.

Anyway I have a lot more to do other than clean that thing up but I'll upload more stuff as I go. Lata potata!

[Majikn]

It appears to be some kind of underground city from the view of an intersection. Either way, I love it.

[randomcomment]Those two arches in the middle seemed like they were hell to draw for some reason, despite all the more complex stuff in the background. Just the way that they're shaped or something.

[Mikero]

They were. That is basically because arcs like that bend like that are hard to put into perspective, and I'm using one-point perspective.

I chose one-point for the simple reason that I could manage working on the pan in a smaller space in 1-point. If I were to use two-point perspective it might look a bit better and some rounded buildings would have been easier to pull off but my vanishing points would have to be about ten inches off the page on each side and I don't have any ruler long enough get across to the other side of the page. One-point was a hell of a lot more manageable in that way and easier to transport (not that I've moved it out of the house).

The city does look underground but it is actually just enclosed within walls that have huge windows all over. I can't really translate how that would look and what parts are windows and which aren't without colour and lighting, but also you'd need a closer look anyway.

This is the panning background for my flying vehicle to fly through, by the way. I don't think I'll be doing the rough animation keys for the flying sequence as it's worth the least on the project though.

And if you're looking for the horizon line anyone, it's the only orange line. You also don't see any ground in this.

[Johncarllos]

Thats kicks ass.
Do I see a guitar hero sticker on that binder in the corner?

[Mikero]

You see a RadioDazed (Ottawa punk band, they recently broke up) sticker  and a Skullcandy sticker.

I have a red and white Skullcandy sticker on my GHtar though.

[Johncarllos]

That's where I recognize it from....
I do not like Skull Candy.

[Mikero]

I hear their headphones are hit or miss. I like mine.

[preventerWIND]

The Skullcandy headphones are way too expensive for my taste. I'd rather pay more for MP3 player than my headphones.

I'm picky with headphones either way, they always end up breaking on me.

[Mikero]

They range from cheap to too expensive

[ASR]

Looks really cool, bro. Good work, good luck on the project as a whole.

[Mikero]

K #####. I am so tired right now, but this morning was a big mind##### and because of weather I almost got a ZERO on this whole project. If you don't get it in before the prof takes them all (nine o' clock) you get a zero. Animation students don't have the luxury of lates in any class. Anyway I almost didn't make it and was stuck in traffic for like an hour and a half. There's only three Animation Design IV assigments, and this was the biggest one by far.

Anyway I have the clean pan and might try scanning it soon. I got the project photocopied and in on time, but I didn't get everything done unfortunately and some was crap. I like my pan enough though. Scanning it will be a bitch and a half but photos just look bleh. The pan we did is a simple A to do D pan, but even just a normal sheet of animation paper is too big to scan on my scanner, let alone pan paper.

[Vinchenz Rock]

LUCKY Mikero. Hope you get some sleep soon.

[Mikero]

I just passed out and slept through a museum trip I was supposed to go to for life drawing. Not happy.

Posted on:  6 March 2008, 19:27:37

OK. An update with videos.

Anyhoo.

Walk cycle and run cycle in Harmony (Flash). I didn't make the characters, I just moved them.

Walk - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UIjWG-3Dio
It's hard to tell what's going on, I forgot to cycle it it for the usual three times so you can only see one step for each leg. Err... I might see if I can re-export it when I'm on campus one day.

Run - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMKOZvcAAIg
That character build was  a total bitch to animate. His shorts were popping up in front of his shirt and all kinds of annoying crap but I think it worked out pretty well in the end, I'm happy with it. I have no idea what that black is that comes up, it doesn't do that on the .mov, so I'll delete it soon and try to re upload it.

And from Storyboarding;

Red Ninja part Two.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TmGJgHZrAY

For our animation final I'll be animating part of this fight scene and some dialogue from the first part that I posted before. Part three is my current storyboarding assignment and seems really easy pateezy.

[Johncarllos]

I like that storyboard.
Even though it sounds... like a fight scene... yeah...

[Vinchenz Rock]

I rated them all five stars. >_>

[Mikero]

Thanks y'allz!

Even though it sounds... like a fight scene... yeah...

I know she sounds like she's getting plowed but I didn't want to waste time looking for a different set of fem grunts. Good sound effects aren't easy to find, really.

Posted on: 21 March 2008, 21:12:36

The flying motorcycle I did for design, I'll get the panning background from the same project up someday. Maybe tomorrow.

Also, my thumbnail for the pilot. Her face and hair will be a bit different but the clothes are almost the same, I'm working on her rotation right now.

[MOX]

I love the pose and style on the rockstar drawing. The motorcycle design is great too, the method for the way you drew the perspective looks like it works really well; I'll have to try doing that sometime too.

[NovaMan XP]

That motorcycle looks awesome. I like the rockstar drawing too.