Theatrum Comicum of Insects

fran · Post by **fran** » Tue Oct 07, 2008 10:07 am

Hi friends,
This is my first messege on this forum (but not the last one)
My name is Fran Bravo. I'm illustrator and animator and i really like Anime Studio.
You can see my last short film here:
http://nicktoonsnetwork.nick.com/nnaf/viewshorts.jhtml

bye

slowtiger · Post by **slowtiger** » Tue Oct 07, 2008 11:08 am

Wow, this is first class stuff! Good style, snappy animation, lots of ideas.

But I need to see that one in much better resolution, as it's all lost in the small version on Nick's site.

Did you really do that all in AS? Nice style, and a perfect fit to the abilities of the program.

There's only some points I think which could be improved: the title sequence switches between photograph and drawing, and that looks like it's two different films. The inserts need to be bigger, if the words are important you should take care that they are readable. And the scribbled nonsense around the short scenes tends to distract the viewer, I tried to decipher them and lost the gags.

knunk · Post by **knunk** » Tue Oct 07, 2008 12:55 pm

how do you actually get it to play? Yes I've pressed play.

slowtiger · Post by **slowtiger** » Tue Oct 07, 2008 12:57 pm

The site seems to have bandwidth trouble. Took a long time to load here.

knunk · Post by **knunk** » Tue Oct 07, 2008 1:03 pm

Yes, it's started but it's choppy.
Looks nice though.

As you say be good taking a better look at it. The design looks nice.

toonertime · Post by **toonertime** » Tue Oct 07, 2008 1:19 pm

What a wonderful animation! If you view the
short on full screen the details are more
viewable. I enjoyed the show!

funksmaname · Post by **funksmaname** » Tue Oct 07, 2008 2:20 pm

beautiful illustration Fran

Love the style, really funny animation & ideas.

Could you tell us a little more about your process? did you use AS vectors? or painted PNGs?

fran · Post by **fran** » Tue Oct 07, 2008 3:03 pm

Thanks everybody

Probably you're right "Slowtiger". The scribbled nonsense text could distract the attention, that's why put like soft layer, but I see it's not softer enough.
I put photographs because i wanted to give a very classical atmosphere, as an ancient studio of a 17th century naturalist. It helped me to introduce the theme and make more contrast wiht the real comical development of the film.
Everything it's allways improved.
Anyway I'm very glad about your advises.

slowtiger · Post by **slowtiger** » Tue Oct 07, 2008 3:18 pm

Your homepage is pretty impressive. I like your 2D cutout style very much, like in Faro and Alphabet. Genova is pretty as well, but that wasn't your design, right?

fran · Post by **fran** » Tue Oct 07, 2008 3:29 pm

thank you
"Genova sinfonia della città" is based on Emmanuele Luzzati's designs.
I designed most of the pieces and animate many scenes.

Theatrum Comicum of Insects

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