NothanyTPM's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[The Noise and Mort Just Playing]

He's playing more than just choke the chicken this time

[Gun]

For his neutral special: he wields a GUN

[Clean for you :)]

You know, for as scary as this looks. As long as there's no electricity going through the part, you can actually get away with doing this. It's not recommended, but it works.

Just make sure it's completely dry before putting it back in the computer.

[Happy Presidents' Day!]

A true American hero ( ò_ó)7"

[Ven thunderstorm bird]

Absolutely love the art! The lighting, the detail, and the added lightning bolt. *Chef's kiss*

The animation feels like it's almost there though. It feels like it's going too fast and loops too quickly. I will say learning how to time things in animation is tough. Even I struggle getting it right sometimes, but hey, that's what practices are for am I right?

Twoeliz responds:

Thanks, the lighting was wanted in very specific places so I had to redraw it quite a bit until it had the desired shape and placement.

I could have done much better if this was actually meant to be an animation. For a freebie I was trying to not overcomplicate things too much, specially when it's pretty likely that it will be used for an emote were its mean to be seen from really far away. If I get the opportunity to animate a bird again I will probably make it much much smoother!

[ZIPPER! - 2024]

Took a look at your Speed-paint video, and I'm honestly surprised that you weren't using some vector art program like Inkscape to make all of this. Though, learning to use one of these programs could help you out a ton in the long run. You don't need to worry about resolutions, transforming objects too much, or even colouring for that matter, just the aspect ratio and translating a few filters can be a bit tricky.

The workflow of a vector program is also different, but if you need help with Inkscape I can gladly help. Pretty much everything I do now uses Inkscape for a good chunk of it. I only use Krita for things like lineart nowadays.

Also, quick tip that helped me a shit ton with colouring in Krita, and I'm pretty sure it's in Clip Studio is the HSV adjustment filter. Basically all it does is it adjusts all the colours on that layer. However, if you separate each colour to its own layer you can basically adjust every colour you have without needing to constantly re-paint over everything all the time. It's just a little tricky to dial the settings correctly if you have a colour palette that you follow.

But yeah, probably blathered on long enough, love your stuff dude!

creepincrawl responds:

I appreciate the suggestion! I definitely want to try out a vector program at some point. I kinda gave up on using vector in Clip Studio Paint because whenever I'd transfer it to Illustrator it wouldn't save any of my pen pressure for some reason.. It'd just convert it as if I drew it without pen pressure? I dunno lol.

But anyway I might try Inkscape, it sounds cool!

[billy mitchel aka the greatest man alive]

Just look at that award winning smile.

[Velour Swords and Rose's]

Always a treat to see traditional art

[Xmas]

Don't we all at the end of the day?

[Happy Mist]

From what I can tell, it seems like it's a problem with both the pencil tool trying to act smooth, and the fill bucket not picking-up completely on the blur the pencil made. Haven't used that program before, but I wonder if there's a way to both decrease the blur on the pencil tool (or the ability to use different brushes), and/or increase how much the fill bucket is able to pick-up. Even then there's also the problem with you not being able to easily flip between frames as quickly.

Not an iPad user unfortunately, so I can't give you proper suggestion or alternative. Best I can do is use what I know from using programs like Krita and Gimp, or look online for other options like Animation Desk, Flipaclip, or Wick Editor. FlipaClip being the most popular option.

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Though, I think despite these troubles the little animation still turned-out pretty good. Love the little smear frames on the wings, and the cute smile.