Sleigher

[Blue]

I produced an animation for the Fox/Aniboom holiday animation contest. This is a short "trailer" for a longer format storyline that I have in mind.
http://www.aniboom.com/competitions/Fox ... /Sleigher/

I'll take the first stab at deprecation. While I spent most of the production time painting the backgrounds I left myself with little time for animating it. The stiff and awkward movements really detract from it. There are also a few scenes where the character drawings could be vastly improved. I thought the gags would play-out much funnier, but they fall a bit flat.

This was my first time using AS. Backgrounds were painted in Photoshop, and editing/mixing was done in Sony Vegas.

I didn't spend much time crafting the perfect rig for the characters and this bit me in the ass later as I ended up doing a lot of point animation cleanup.

Anyway, a lot was learned from this, so the next will be better.

[Danimal]

Looked good to me! The only joke that fell a bit flat for me was the "fire at will" one because they did similar one on an old episode of G.I. Joe.

[jahnocli]

Yeah, everything that isn't animated looks good...I'd be interested in seeing more, though, which I always take to be a positive sign!