Various stuff made with TVPaint

[ten_zero]

Calm down everyone, here is a "Films made with TVPaint" topic, right ?

[Elodie]

Nobody is nervous here, we are just sharing some point of views about how cinema influences families when they want to "offer" an animal to their beloved children

But you're right, we are not really in the topic anymore


So let's go back to the subject :

[Paul Fierlinger]

This is a perfect showcase of how TVPaint has its own "look". Now I feel that there are other things important about this little piece of work, but in order to not drift from the topic I'll say no more (except a note that this is a pity and that the artist deserves better )

[Sewie]

Please elaborate, Paul.

[Paul Fierlinger]

Ummm... I'm afraid right now, but this does help make my case that TVPaint has excellent tools to create many moods that CGI and Flash usually fail at, and that I stand by my view that this indeed fits into the Films Made with TVP theme.

[Elodie]

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[Paul Fierlinger]

Tulip's real name was Queenie...

[Thunderdog]

I think what Paul is getting at and is mistakenly referring to as a 'TVPaint look' is more the 'digital paint look'. Not that vector program paint style but the digital look that can be got in nearly any raster based paint program.

[CLO]

A commercial made in South Africa by Black Ginger team :

Darrin Hofmeyr wrote :

We recently used TVPaint to complete a 90sec commercial for a South African Cat Food.
All the cat animation, clean up and colouring was done with TVPaint. Other software used was Photoshop, Softimage and Nuke.

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It was a great experience creating it.
As a company that creates 99% CG work to delve into 2D was a new avenue for us.
We hired a freelancer, Sasha Perdigao, to do the 2D animation in TV Paint and two of our in-house artists learnt how to use it to do the cleanup.
We will definitely be using it again for future projects and in fact have four little commercials coming up done by the middle of April.

[Elodie]

That's so cute ^^

I like the eye of the cat when it's looking at the big fish

[Paul Fierlinger]

There are quite a few nice story ideas in this spot, except where it gets too cute and of course the ending; a too obvious committee of cats dreamed up by a committee of advertising fat cats. I thought some of the tricks of the 3D mindset that had crept into the 2D world were quite telling -- we all get caught up in the tricks of our routines and some things are hard to shake off. My favorite part was the cat's trip into the wilderness because it had a nice and steady flow with little room for the cat to get too cute.

[Elodie]

Haha, you're so predictable Paul : I knew you'll pull a face on my "so cute"

More seriously, I like some parts in the animation, especially the moment where the cat is stretching on the kitchen's sideboard, at the beginning. They really succeeded to give this "elastic" capacity that cats have

[Paul Fierlinger]

Well, we're both predictable. The stretching and other real cat characteristics are pleasant to watch because it shows the animator knows cats, but then it's followed (and spoiled) by that tiresome, useless and predictable squash and stretch, for no other reason than to show the animator knows about stretch and squash too.

[Elodie]

I always thought that using skills and knowledge you have about techniques or your job was common sense

Personally, if they had animated an unflexible cat, the result would have been really weird

[Paul Fierlinger]

Squash and stretch or stretch and squash was invented by the Disney animators of yore for a simple purpose: When the motion you are creating is too subtle to be registered by all viewers, you exaggerate by squash to bring attention to the place where it will happen, the following stretch being the "happening". But too many people use this gimmick whenever a character moves, the reason for doing so is to save themselves work by making the move happen fast. So you have a character flipping in this spastic way whenever it goes into motion and it is irritating to watch.

My gripe therefore is, that after the animator executes a nice, languid cat stretch so true to life, then he jerks the cat completely out of character into a squash and stretch gimmick for no apparent reason. Therefore my conclusion: some animators must believe it shows skillfulness to periodically use this S&S throughout any film; gimmickry for the sake of gimmickry which doesn't push the story anywhere and serves no other purpose than an animator using a crutch gesture, like, you know, I mean, like a crutch word before you, like, go on to the next, you know, cat gesture.