Hey Johnny, nice to see, that you stick with our own animation-style :) I like that "always in motion" thing :) BUT! two things. first: I don't like how you do the lip-sync. it just looks a bit lazy because there isnt an "s"-mouth when the character says something with an "s...

if you don't use flash then you shouldn't submit your movies to newgrounds.. anime studio is one of the worst programs for flash animation. I don't even know why it got an swf export...
maybe for the advertisment?

oh god, 3D game maker was the biggest piece of crap I ever had on a CD :D man... was it bad.. and useless... maybe someone remembers it, I made a test game with 3D gamestudio (complete dev kit with level editor,3D engine and programming language) and used for the sprites anime studio: http://www.sin...

OH MY GOD!!!! :shock: Since AS5.6 I never made a picture where I needed the alpha channel. But today is one of those holy alpha channel days and man... where did my wonderfull alpha channel go :( lost marble, please fix ist as quick as you can.. this is so annoying.. yes, there is a workaround.. but...

heyvern wrote: Render it small, turn off all the effects so it renders fast. You get a pretty quick feedback.

or just press the F5 button :]

seems nice, but antivir is warning me 'cause the files seems to be infected with the "W32/Parite" virus..

wouldn't do that. it's just harder to change some things. like you got a voice sample, but you client changes the sentence of the voice sample. now its 2 seconds longer. you need to redone ALL the animation, just because the delay of 2 seconds. if you use more individual project-files, you can chang...

ah, the fire :) was my first attempt to use the partice-layer somewhere. I really miss some particle features from 3D engines. I just can't get it right... maybe I will start to use small flame images replacing the small vector blops, that I use at the moment, for fire effects. @rasheed wow.. thats ...

hey, got a swf version online: http://www.bysamb.de/priv/demoreel/demoreel2008.html it isn't in HD but better than nothing :) @rasheed wow! thx for the critique :) I agree, that the walk animation of the giant is not my best work. but I really like how I added a slight 3D effekt for the walk. also, ...

rasheed is right. also, you could start improving by just moving the layer up and down, so the characters feets will always be ON the line. that's why you make the line (or use onion-skins). and it seems that you doesn't use point binding.. the upper body moves strangely from side to side.. oh, and ...

thx genete
I think you mean the alien at the end. that project was made just to use dynamic bones.. so maybe that's why it's too much

and sorry all for the big file size and no streaming method. it's a HD video (wmv), so youtube etc. wouldn't make much sense.

yes, really nice design.
but slowtiger is right, we need some more poses like the head from front and side, also the body from the side.
hope you will use a full animation style. so he can turn around, run,jump etc.

Heyho my fellow anime studio users
I got my demoreel 2008 ready! (didnt made one in 2007)

http://www.bysamb.de/priv/demoreel2008.rar

online version(no HD!)
http://www.bysamb.de/priv/demoreel/demoreel2008.html

well.. what you think?

Well, now the forum is asking for a password. The server www.lowrestv.com at www.lowrestv.com requires a username and password. You can just hit cancel, but it's annoying. seems like some user uses a protected webspace for image linking. so everytime you open a forum-site,with that picture, you get...

I would say forget bones and do it with points-animation.
you need like 100 bones for a smooth "tieing-animation".
points are flexible, can be stretched with no problems etc. so, before you go crazy with bones, try points