Rift Contest Entry - Water Colossus

DeviantArt is having a character design contest for the game Rift. This is my first digital painting and my fisrt contest. I used PhotoShop CS5.

http://browse.deviantart.com/contests/2011/rift/

Facebook Revenge

Kinda got it working on youtube. Not the best picture quality, so I will work on that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udIuCohy94I


I was inspired by Animator vs. Animation by Alan Becker to make my own type of vs. animation. I used Adobe Flash Professional CS5. Lynda.com tutorials help me understand the program and I built my character along with a tutorial. Some of my animations have frame by frame movement but the majority is classic tweened. Tweening is short for in between, which means you have a start point and end point with an object and it calculates all the frames in the middle. This was very useful in speeding up the process which has taken six weeks to finish this animation. I took tons of screen shots to build the background and friends and family helped out with the Facebook posts. A screen shot of my own Facebook profile page was used then I erased everything except for the structure. Photoshop helped me combine all the elements to create a realistic fake profile page. I used photos and sounds clips from various free websites. Music was appropriated from youtube and my own library. Adobe Soundbooth CS5 helped editing the sounds.
http://www.alanbecker.net/
http://www.lynda.com%3c/div>

Sources:
Photos
Facebook
Scooby hollywoodjesus.com
Porsche vintagecarsandsuch.com
Dell pink-laptop-computer.com
http://www.sxc.hu/
Sounds
Mario elevator http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbIaYZEUF1M
http://www.soungle.com/
http://www.partnersinrhyme.com/
http://music-for-video.com/
http://www.freesound.org/
Voice provided by Josephine Wisler