zach's old animations and new visual art, updated every 25 to 60 days

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I love the lil mouth movement

not that anyone will notice, probably, but I'm taking the Barry Lutz website down, which means that that the images in roughly the middle 1/3 of this thread will be broken soon (the first 1/3 were on tinypic, the middle 1/3 on barrylutz, most recent 1/3 on tumblr). "I THOUGHT THAT BARRYLUTZ.COM WOULD LIVE FOREVER. I MADE A TERRIBLE MISTAKE."

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just got my first ever tablet, totally pumped!

Whoa, the results are crazy and amazing!

yeah, it's just a loop of 4 different tracings of a photo, but it came out ok!

First 30 minutes with tablet = fuuuuuuuuuuuuu-
after that = much better

^basically me learning how to do anything new on a computer. just change "30 minutes" to "4 hours"

wow! that looks great

zs could you do something cool with homie in the red shirt at 0:12 in this?

http://www.youtube.com/v/t3fNauvrAZQ&fs=1&hl=en

I can try, sure! but probably it'll be tomorrow.

I love those little walking birds so much.

thanks! and yeah all of this new stuff is amazing

I am p impressed that you made a plausible walking walk for a bird with no knees!

thanks, but tbh I always have trouble with the walking animation. I've tried several times, and for some reason I can only end up with a limping jog. Like this one I did a year or two ago, same deal:

http://i54.tinypic.com/30tmmmx.gif

dude got skills

Richard Williams says a quality walk is the heart of animation. Have you ever read The Animator's Survival Kit?

HOw is it for you to not look down and see what you're drawing?

Have you ever read The Animator's Survival Kit?

I haven't! *googles*

HOw is it for you to not look down and see what you're drawing?

you mean with drawing on the tablet and the results showing up directly on the screen? it was kinda tough to get used to, but I bet it was a lot easier for me than real artists because I very rarely draw on a piece of paper. I'm almost always using a computer.

Yeah that.

The Animator's Survival Kit?

wow, 74 pages covering "the walk"! this looks awesome

xpost I think the most difficult part, so far, is in stopping a line, raising the stylus, and then trying to resume the line. sometimes it takes a few tries to make the connection look halfway smooth. though, again, since I suck at drawing in real life, that's a problem I have with pen and paper anyway

have you tried this animation software?
http://www.plasticanimationpaper.dk/

i'd like to say it has made me into the next mike judge but uh... it hasn't
i think you'll have better luck, though.

I took a look at it just now and might give it in a download soon. The last few things I've downloaded, though, have been epic disasters for me. Not necessarily because they weren't useful, but because I immediately gave up and opened up Photoshop as soon as I was confused by something. my willpower = -43

Meanwhile, I posted this the other day and for some reason this is more popular than creepy cats:

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also reagantron:

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YOu can't really publish a book of gifs, so I'm just going to set back and wait for your eventual Adult Swim deal.

I wonder if you can make a "book of gifs" in iBook format or whatever . . . this stuff would look great on the iPad

or maybe u cld just make a blog of all these animated gifs so everyone could see them, just an idea

live rich on your blogz, son.

lol gr8080

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http://i53.tinypic.com/whcklk.gif

Really enjoying those.

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http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lefefyVZLT1qdmmiqo1_500.gif

Those should be pretty popular!

awesome

yah, bowie nerds are hardcore
also lolz at yr new dn ZS

I didn't really think of it while I was making them, but yeah, David Bowie has a large tumblr following it seems like. Harry Potter is the biggie, though.

dude is a LEGEND, man

love how the first and third in your bowie series gets hundreds of reblogs, but the one that hews closest to the original gets a paltry 29

fickle internet

haha, yeah.

actually the middle one is transparent, so I thought it would be cool because it might look neat on some people's bg's when they reblog, depending on what they have as their bg.

hey animate this Z S!
http://www.mixtuponline.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/theythrewus.jpg

oooh, that's a good idea. plus i <3 that album! tmw evng

never realised before, but that liars sleeve anticipates portal, doesn't it

yeah my <3 for yr gif's is well covered but am enjoying that display name -- those laconic player idents on nfl are one of the best things about it

forksclovetofu - culinary academy

thanks for the portal suggestion stevie, couldn't pass it up!

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no monument no cred ;_;

i lost my cred back in '84

it's a solid gif tho nae worries z s son #scottish

zs did u ever do anything with that youtube i posted a few weeks ago?