u/Pkmatrix0079

After about two and a half weeks of work, I've completed the biggest, longest, and most complicated animation I've ever done. This is the first animation I've ever taken all the way to fully colored and finished! ^_^

The rabbit character is named Harvey and he's featured in a lot of my illustrations and comics over the years. He's an actor in Hollywood who aspires to play villains in movies, but since he's a cute bunny rabbit the best he can do is land little roles as no-name henchmen and often for low-rent small studios like Mucker Brothers. Here he's landed a bit part in the opening scene of the Mucker Brothers B-grade western "The Desert Doesn't Forgive...And Neither Will Django!" (an attempt by the hucksters to cash in on the old Django series from the 1960s and 1970s). He doesn't get any lines and dies literally within the first 30 seconds but, hey, at least he's the first character you see in the movie!

Comments and criticisms are welcome! I'm still an amateur and this is probably the 13th or 14th animation I've ever made (all the rest like 10 seconds long or less), but took a big swing and tried to apply a bunch of what I've learned. 😄

The whole thing is done at 12 FPS/On Twos. Shot 2 is rotoscoped from a GIF of a clip from The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly and I'm not the happiest with it but it gets the job done. The sound effects and music all come from Pixabay, except for the Django theme song which is originally from Django (1966). The file ended up being too big in the end to post directly on Reddit, so I've uploaded it to Youtube instead.

Here's the complete timeline for the project:

• 8/13 - Drew simple storyboard. Attempted start in Krita 5.3, aborted attempt and decided to switch to Animation Paper.
• 8/14 - Started rough animation of Shot 1.
• 8/15 - Completed rough animation for Shots 1 and 2. Made version 1 of Shot 3, but lost it.
• 8/16 - Completed rough animation for Shots 3 and 4. Exported complete rough animation. Completed tie downs for Shot 1.
• 8/17 - Completed tie downs for Shots 2 and 3. Revised tie downs for Shot 1.
• 8/18 - Started tie downs for Shot 4.
• 8/19 - Completed tie downs on Shot 4. Made adjustments to Shots 1 and 3. Made studio ident for Mucker Brothers. Exported completed tie down animation with music and sound effects.
• 8/20 - Revised completed tie down animation, changing the music and fixing audio issues. Exported frames and moved project back to Krita 5.3 for clean up and coloring. Started clean up animation on Shot 1.
• 8/21 - Continued clean up animation on Shot 1.
• 8/22 - DAY OFF FOR PARTY.
• 8/23 - Completed clean up animation for Shots 1 and 2. Started clean up animation on Shot 3.
• 8/24 - Completed clean up animation for Shot 3. Painted Background for Shots 1 and 4.
• 8/25 - DAY OFF FOR FRIENDS.
• 8/26 - Started cleanup animation for Shot 4. Painted Backgrounds for Shots 2 and 3. Painted Rock for Shots 1 and 4. Tweaked Background for Shots 1 and 4.
• 8/27 - Continued clean up animation for Shot 4. Tweaked backgrounds for Shots 2 and 3. Tweaked Davinci Resolve timeline.
• 8/28 - Redid studio ident for Mucker Brothers. Continued cleanup for Shot 4.
• 8/29 - Completed cleanup animation for Shot 4. Started coloring.
• 8/30 - Completed coloring. Assembled final timeline.

I'm experienced at video editing, but a noob at DaVinci Resolve. I'm working on an animation project and primarily am just using DaVinci Resolve to add some text overlays and additive dissolves at the start end end. Everything else I'm making in an animation software called Animation Paper.

Since I like Cinemascope as an aspect ratio, I'm producing the animation using what I've been told is the DCI standard for Cinemascope: 4096x1716. My canvas in Animation Paper is this and when I export from that program it exports at that aspect ratio.

I can't seem to get DaVinci Resolve to do the same? It imports the file and I adjust the pixels from square to 2.386, but it seems to only want to export as 3840×2160 for 16:9 aspect ratio. I don't mind the black bars, but I'm just a bit puzzled why I can't seem to export just at the Scope aspect ratio. I assume I'm doing something wrong and skipping some obvious step.

I recently updated to Krita 5.3 .2.1 from a 5.2.x.x (don't remember exactly) and have noticed some performance issues since I did so. In particular:

• Saving projects or updating the Color Mask layers takes noticeably longer than before, sometimes up to a minute or more when doing a comparable project save or color mask in 5.2 might've taken just a few seconds.
• Closing projects -- in particular closing all projects so I'm back at the opening screen showing all recently opened projects -- freezes the entire app. Sometimes if I wait 5 to 10 minutes it'll finish whatever it's doing and function again, but usually I end up having to use Task Manger to end the process and close it before I can use it again.

I'm not noticing any actual issues with using the brushes -- that runs very nicely and smooth as usual -- but the extra long processing for saving, updating color masks, and the app outright freezing if I close all the projects I had open has been annoying, especially since Krita ran smoothly and without issue back in 5.2. Any suggestions?

My PC:

• OS:  Windows 11 Pro (64-Bit)
• PROCESSOR:  Intel(R) N100 (800 MHz)
• MEMORY:  16.0 GB
• GRAPHICS:  Intel(R) UHD Graphics (128 MB)
• ADDITIONAL NOTES:  SSD for hard drive

As an artist, I usually draw on 11 inch by 14 inch drawing paper. This size seems unusual and I cannot see any obvious reason for why this ended up a standard size? I've read the answer u/platypuskeeper gave on the history of paper sizes seven years ago, the logic behind the ISO standards is clear enough, and I get why North America has 8.5x11, 11x17, etc. But where the heck did 11x14 come from?

Kong meets the Rocketeer! :D

So in response to the Monarch Season 2 finale I've seen a lot of comments about how >!Rodan!< MUST be a second individual because >!KOTM said he'd been under observation since 1990 sleeping in that volcano in Mexico.!<

Yes, maybe that's the case.

BUT

I want to remind everyone that a huge element of the MonsterVerse is the secret history and Monarch's long history of lying to everyone about what's really going on with the Titans. Case and point: KOTM established that Godzilla hadn't been seen in five years but suggested Monarch knew where he'd been hiding, then Monarch came along and revealed that in reality he HAD been seen several times in between 2014 and 2019 but those appearances had been covered up. Let's not forget them covering up the MUTO's initial rampages in Japan as a "nuclear accident" and then later as an "earthquake". More than once throughout Monarch, Shaw in particular has commented on how Monarch loves to lie and hide the truth.

So, yes, perhaps Monarch has been monitoring >!Rodan since 1990!<. And yes, we know he eventually >!went to sleep in that volcano!<. But, let's not dismiss the possibility that KOTM lied to us and the reality is that>! Rodan wasn't asleep in that volcano!< all that time and that in reality he was active, but his activities were covered up by Monarch to keep the public and the rest of the government in the dark.