Two More Pics Hey Everyone. I'm just going to show you some of the modifications I've made to Joe and Jimmy. This includes a complete head redraw on joe, as well as adding noses. Also, I redrew the mouths on the side images so that they're actually part of the head, as opposed to pasted on.

Here They Are:





A lot of the slowness involved is my desire to do a professional-looking cartoon, even though it's just me working on it. I know what good animation looks like, and that it's within my grasp. I just need to stay focused on that, no matter how long it takes.

To this end, I've been watching a lot of flash cartoons and looking at how they do animation. What's been done right and what's been done wrong. I'm trying to do it right :D.

I noticed, watching Home Movies that they have the character's jaws and head moving while they talk, and it looks so natural that I actually missed that. My plan was to copy southpark style talking, with just the mouth moving, but I like how the jaw moving adds to the realisim. Unfortunately, I'm not sure how to set that up. My theory is that I can set all the head/jaw movements up as different frames on an animation, then cut to them as needed. This is just a theory, though, and about six steps ahead of where I am.

Comments would be appreciated.

Thanks you lovely people,
--Joe  ¶ 11:05 AM