Cartoon animation challenge May 3rd . May 22nd

Hello my name is Clara and I was challenged by dear Brian to challenge you, so I am honoured to be your host for the next 20 days.
I know very little about cartoons, but I am learning and I hope to learn allot more with this challenge and your help. Everybody is welcome to be part of this challenge

Remember Harvey Comics? Of course you do! They brought us lovely childhood icons such as Richie Rich, Casper the Friendly Ghost, Spooky, Wendy the good Witch, Hot Stuff the little devil, little Dot, little Lotta and many others.."

My challenge;
Pick one of the reference images or any other from the Harvey Comics, draw and animate it. If you wish to create your very own cartoon, feel free to do so.

Since many of you might not have the proper programs to do animations, this challenge will have to parts

1st. part: Animated cartoons
2nd part: Drawn cartoons

1st part:
All you have to do is; pick and draw a cartoon , put it into photo shop, paint shop or any other program you have, do the animation and post it.
For those who do have photo shop or paint shop but are not familiar with how to do animations you can check out the following links and learn how to do some simple animations.

http://www.myjanee.com/tuts/animation/animation.htm

http://www.grafx-design.com/05psp.html

http://avanimation.avsupport.com/files/how-to/How-to01.htm

Remember this is still a drawing challenge so please post your original drawing before animating it

2nd part.

You just have to draw one of the reference photos or any other Harvey characters, in any medium you like and post it.



ref. pictures

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Let's animate


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oh this is a very nice thread, i will certainly try to draw and post a few..

Great challenge, Clara! I'm glad Brian talked you into it.. I hope I can find the time to try it..

Wow Clara this is fantastic !!! what a great job you did putting this together and thank you for being our host. I absolutely love the reference pictures you provided. I remember when I was a kid my parents would take me and my brothers out to a Chinese restaurant every so often and they would always give us Harvey Comic books on our way out. As a kid I think I enjoyed that more then the food.

I decided to try Little Lotta.... she was harder to draw then I thought ...this really was a fun challenge... I hope to try more...

Happy drawings, Brian.

Great job, Brian.. What a start to a challenge. You just keep geting better at them all the time..

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here is my version..i did her with color pencil and tried to outline her as well..i will do another one too only with a smaller size marker outline..these are fun

Clara... thanks for the web and nice cute cartoon, I will try one.
Brian.. Nice to see your little Lotta.
Oliver..Love your drawing too.

lily

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i thought i would try hotstuff in watercolor...i like playing with them once in a while

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colored pencil and marker

Wow guys you are all doing a great job, I'm so happy

Brian; your little Lotta is adorable .I'm very glad you liked my challenge These pics allso take me back to my childhood, I absolutely loved to read those comics...I don't think most kids nowdays know how much fun that could be, all they do is play computer games and watch TV.

Kay, You are simply amazing, your drawings are very nice and you did three already, thank you so much Keep them comming hun

Cyn, Yes, looks like Brian can convince anyone to do what he wants , I'm looking forward to see your drawings or animations

Lily, you are most welcome, if you need any help just let me know. can't wait to see what you're doing

see you soon

Here's Hotstuff throwing some lightning....watch out for him
This file is a bit big, Hope you can open it
I made two drawings in diferent positions, then added them into paint shop colored and animated them.
it didn't come out very nice it's running to quickly

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Forgot to say the animation on Hotstuff with lightning took me about 3 hours to do
Now look what he did...He electrified himself He still looks happy though.
I used the same drawing as before.
This one was quick took me about 10 minutes, I just used 3 frames and all I changed in each one was the position of the electric beams.

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This animation is a great challenge but its so difficult.
This is RR at the gym????.couldnt get his legs going quick enough though

I really like this.


Marc

omg..those animations are soooo cool..lol, i really dont have the time to learn THIS..lol..so many ways to create..not enough time

That's lovely Lance, you realy did a great job on RR.I like the way you posted your project too

I agree with you, these are not easy to do, but once you're finished they look lovely, and it's lots of fun to see your own drawing moving!!

Thanks Cyn ....I don't think I am half as talented as you.

Thanks Lily... she sure was fun to draw.

Kay your cartoon drawings are amazing...and I like the different mediums you are using.

Lance you did it again....

Thanks for your kind words Clara.....love your animations.

This is one of several Harvey films for any one who would like to watch.

Happy drawings, Brian.

http://www.silverscreenclassics.com/video_...php?id=00280001

Lance, that rocks!

All the drawings here are great, folks. I hope to join in again.

A birdie told me that you guys have lots of fun here so i decided to join in. Unfortunately i don't have an animation program but i will try download a trial version see if i can achieve something.
Until then here is my Lil' Audrey.Sorry, old markers!

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By the way, this cartoon thing it's a piece of cake

she is sooo cute..i am glad to see you post a pic here too...these lil threads are fun to participate in..

Brian, thank for the Harvey film, it's adoreble

Elena, glad you joined us, beautiful drawing of little Audrey. That birdie is right!! we do have lots of fun here
Look I've seen you undestand allot of languages,by the comments you post. Do you understand any Portugueese? if you do, you can check the site below, from that site you can download paint shop pro for free, along with all the necessary plugings, and it has all the lessons on how to do these animations.If you need any help I'll be here

site: http://www.cristinyonline.com.br/


Thanks Ernest, hope you can find some time to join us, your drawings are always an inspiration

O brigado, Clara(hope it's correct). I do appreciate the link.I will check it out. In case i get lost my husband speaks portuguese, he lived in Brazil for a while studying so he can help me.

I like your Little Audrey Elena... I think she is adorable.


I decided to try Richie Rich.....fun challenge Clara! thanks.

Brian, I'm glad you're enjoying the challenge.
Nice Richie Rich.
How do you color them so nicely? mine always come with white pixels, sometimes after filling with color I still have to go again with brushes and still doesn't cover very well

Elena, that is correct (obrigado) That's nice that your husband knows portugueese, in fact that site is from a Brazilian girl, its very complete and explains everything very well. But it does take time to learn everything... I hope you find the time to try it out


Here's another one, this time I tried Wendy and did two versions of the same picture. hope you like it
This one is dedicated to everyone at drawspace.


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Love

Obrigado again, Clara. The site is wonderful and I downloaded the program I will be back for more stuff and the picture of the site with the girl holding lipsdtick insoire me to draw it. Great site.
Brian, I am glad you loved my audrey. Wait to see how she will smell the flower!!!!!

Thanks Clara, I just started learning all the tools on photo shop and find myself now using the eye drop tool to match colors and the burn tools for shading.

I love your Wendy she is beautiful!!!


Clara you inspired me to lean how to animate ....this is my very very first try with one of my drawings.

thanks for the push! ....edited to add my second try...

Brian

Thanks Brian, Way to go Once you get into this you can't turn back

Good start with those animations
The one on Cyn is running a bit fast... next time try to put in two layers of each, that will make it run slower...Hope you know what I mean...

keep them comming

When you are animating with Photoshop, and you have your layers ready, click on the tab to transfer them into Image Ready. On the little animation window, (if you don't see it, go to the top and click on window, animation, and it will show the layers in the animation window) Once it is in the animation section, there will be little numbers under each layer. Right click on them and you can set the timers. You can speed them up or slow them down. Most of the speeds are in fractions of seconds. You can set each one until you have the speed you want. Sometimes it's fun to make one frame stay on longer than the others. Just play with it. It's fun.

I love the animations you are all doing. They are just wonderful.. Of course I have a soft spot for cyn-kid.

Cyn
Thank you for explaining this, I work with pain shop pro so I'm not familiar with photoshop, and by what you have said it's a little different.

Thanks Clara and thanks Cyn!!!

Photo shop is very new to me in general let alone animations... I have figured out how to slow it down but now I can not figure out why I can't keep the text with in the image??? or anything I add with in the image...and now I forgot how I did it with Mickey ...it seems to flash separately now.

Hi Brian,
Did you do two separated boards? or did you write the text on the same board as the image? if so did you create a layer between image and text?, if you did this, them you must merge the layers. That's how its done in paint shop. Hope this helps
It still looks good to me though

Guys, tell me if i understand correctly. Do I have to draw several positions of the character in order to have more frames and then animate it with a program?Because this can be done also with gif animator as long as you save the files as gifs.I'm new to this but i know that this how it is done in film cartoons.

You are right Elena you don't have to do several drawings, unless you want to change the position of, lets say the legs, like Lance did with RR. Otherwise you just have to save as gifs and then put them in diferent places on each frame. You can also change the position of a gif by using the tool "mirror" that way you can make the figure turn left and right.
that's how I have done this tweety

http://www.drawspace.com/forums/index.php?...st&id=10111

I'm also kind of new to this, so I hope I am explaining this well enough.
Kisses

I have some funny ideas about her hair and hand so i will do the drawings, Clara.
Obrigado,
beijos e abracos

Hi all.

after spending about 4 hours today learning how to make animations I think I am finally getting it. I figured out what I was doing wrong and that is I was not using a duplicate copy layer for my frames.

Elena I am using photo shop elements 5.... I believe you are correct.... and there are many ways to do it....you can also add frames with the same copy while adding different colors or text. Here is my fourth attempt .....and time for me to take a break because I am starting to see in double vision...

Wow! Great drawings and animations everyone.
Here are
Casper
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and Baby Huey
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There are so many fantastic drawings and animation here. You have done really good with this challenge Clara.

I know what Brian means about taking a break. In the end im sure my brain was starting to hurt

Hi everyone

I'm so delighted with everyone's work, and I'm having a great time with this challenge. Thank you all

Elena, can't wait to see what you're up to

Brian, thats a very nice animation on Mickey, I know what you mean with the double vision
This really takes allot of time to learn how to do these...

Mr. Offir, thank you for joining us. Your casper is as always in your unique style witch I aprreciate allot, and Baby Huey is adorable.

Lance, thank you for your kind works, I'm very happy that people are having fun with this challenge

Hi Mr.Ofir.... I have not seen Baby Huey for a long time....great drawings.

Thanks Clara, this sure takes practise... I am still having problems but I am learning...

here are two more attempts.....sure is fun

Brian, those animations are wonderful :wub:they are running just fine now thank you so much for this.


Ok here's my new animation
This one took a while longer...I actualy drew one image and then traced the other 9, just changed the arm and the amount of ice'cream on each of them. then I inked them one by one , scanned and put them into paint shop, colored each one of them Made a new frame with my background, and them copied each image into the background frame, one by one, saving each one of them, them put them into the animation program and ...VOILA ...hope you enjoy it...took me about 7 hours to get this one done
It wasn't a perfect trace, for the hole image moves...at least the table should be still!!...boy****this is hard!!!
I could have saved myself from dawing 10 images, all I needed was to diferent positions on the arms, and the ice-cream could easely have been taken of in the program...but I just realised that after


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Thanks Clara! and honestly I would have never come this far with animations with out the push from you...although I still have much to learn I am happy now I am getting some experience with them. As you say they can be time consuming which leads me to talk about the work you have just done.

I don't have much to say other then.....I love it!!!!!!

thanks for being such a wonderful host.


I have been busy but tried another....this one is for Mom...I have not actually made anything move yet other then color but I will work on that next.

Thank you Brian, you are very sweet, but the effort is yours alone!!besides you pushed me too, or I wouln't be here right now

This last one is so cute, and so sweet of you to dedicate it to your mom, she must be a very proud mom

kisses

Guys, I am sick and tired of coloring por lil'Audrey. I made four more positions on tracing paper, scanned and then printed and colored them. Took me an hour the coloring alone.I need a shower and then scan and play in animation shop. Wish me luck. It's my first funny idea this way.I will post the steps,of course when I'm finished.

Best luck

Ok. Here it is what i accomplished so far.

the four more positions(sorry for the colors I ran out of markers)
and two animations, one transparent and one opaque.
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The idea is that when lil' Audrey smells the flower her hair stants to an end and the colors change(dress, flowers,etc.) then she is pleased and lifts a leg in the air.I like the idea more than what i achieved. Maybe I will try more.

Wow I am so impressed with everyones drawings and animations.

ElenaM, I love your lil' Audry.. Great job..

I really need to find some time, but as you all know, animations are a killer when it comes to time.

Cyn, thanks a lot.
Clara, only now i saw yours, it is gorgeous. Bravo!

Clara, the work you put into the large girl cartoon really paid off. Excellent drawings and very funny
Nice to see Brian dedicated his cartoon to the most important person in the world
And ElenaM, you did well to keep track and sync the movements in your animation

Thank you Lance. I like yours better. I am not satisfied with mine so I will try to add more frames.Besides i color it by hand and it shows. I din't know how to do it in paint shop.I will have to try that too.

wow Elena, that's amazing, I love it!!! thank you nobody will beleive its yout first animation!!
You could color them in the program too if you wished to.

Thanks Lance and Cyn.