Clay characters allow us to bring some of that tangible quality to Character Animator. Regarding puppets, Dovid says, "As a sort of side-effect of working with puppets, I've come to really appreciate tactile, physical media, things you can touch and feel. Who better to officiate your cartoon wedding than the new Clay style in Puppet Maker? Clay was originally designed by Dovid Taub: writer, illustrator, puppeteer, and video editor, as well as the founder and creative director at Shmideo.Ĭlay was created using modeling clay, photographed, and then pieced together in Photoshop. Check out this months Community Spotlight from Okay Samurai. And the same is true of the animation community. Everyone coming together to help plan, prep, share, and support. It's a great way to engage with your audience and stand out from the crowd!"Ĭommunity is part of what makes a great wedding. Using digital puppet technology, you can produce animated promotional content faster than traditional animation, keeping the costs lower for you without loss of quality." And Antony adds, "Create a live talk show, animate a podcast, create a character for your gaming channel on Twitch. Scott notes, "With the increase in social media marketing, there is now a huge demand for regular content to keep customers engaged and up to date with your latest offers. The design partners and brothers, Scott and Antony Evans, offer custom character designs in both 2D and 3D renders. You can even change her pupils to hearts. Emily got her start in animation by developing her own animated web series, “The Weather Girls”, learning Adobe Character Animator through binge-watching Dave Werner’s “Okay Samurai” videos.Created by Digital Puppets, a cartoon studio based in the U.K., Zilla comes with expressive eyes, mouths, and hand triggers. She is a self-taught animator and illustrator, and currently performs the live animation of robot host, Nicky, on Nickelodeon’s cartoon game show, “Tooned In.” Before that, she served as the assistant director of animation for Your Daily Horoscope on Quibi, and created a children’s series on emotional literacy for Sesame Studios. That's six other people with a face that looks nearly identical to yours, and with Character Animator's new Doppel style, make that seven.ĭoppel was created by Emily Watts. Scientists say that statistically, everyone has around six doppelgangers. One of my favorite things to do with Puppet Maker is to just sit there and hit the “randomize” button over and over again. Besides for the delightfulness of seeing an infinite array of unique characters, I love how it breaks my brain’s expectations of what types of features, hairstyles or clothes ‘go together’.” Adding another doppelganger with Doppel Ever since I started exploring this style, I’ve wanted to create a whole world’s worth of stop-motion style puppets for Character Animator, but the process is very involved and I’m kind of lazy so I left that idea on the shelf.”įortunately, this paid off because, as Taub describes, “Once Puppet Maker was released it opened up so many possibilities for unique character creation that would have been so much more time consuming or even impossible before. Taub explains, “I had an inkling that Character Animator would be my secret weapon, but I hadn’t seen many examples of that style in Character, so I had to experiment and see what worked.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |