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Hi All,

The studio I work for www.titmouse.net had it's annual '5 Second Animation Day' where the studio is shut down for the day and everyone in the studio, where you are an artist on not, get to create whatever we wish and it has to be 5 second minimum. We then have them compiled have have an in studio film festival! Every one had creative, funny, and beautiful works.

This 30 seconds of fun was my humble submission. A quick description of my animation: What you are looking at is a window into my brain. You will see basically why I became an animator. The wonderful kinetic and exuberant anime animation that I had a steady diet of growing up in the 80s. You would say, this is my homage to what eventually inspired me!

Enjoy.
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`vest Mar 18, 2010
Very cool. I remember at art school doing a similar thing where we had a day to do one animation, and it's quite awesome when you work in only 10 to 15 second scripts (is it appropriate to call it the 'Robot Chicken' style?). You don't feel bogged down by the project, and from the moment you first press pencil to storyboard, you already see the light at the end of the tunnel. And nothing quite like that light to really push people into working super-hard, and not getting detracted by, oh for example, writing long-winded comments on deviantArt...

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...I just totally forgot what I was working on, now...
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~Dadward Mar 18, 2010  Professional Filmographer
Hahah, I don't mind the long winded comments. I enjoy when people take the time to put some thoughts together.

Yes, the idea of calling it '5 second day' was to prevent us animators from getting bogged down and trying to create 20 minute epics. Having only a day to work on the projects forces us to be brisk with our work.
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Mood: Joy *SuperCDR Mar 18, 2010  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Beyond awesome!
Those kind of toons (and many others) heavily influenced me on the artistic level as well. The current crap that you see on TV is visually unoriginal (well, as a matter of fact, several current toons are facsimile generation 6 of pokemon, storywise, as well) and provide no sense of energy or story depth at all. We have a few honorable mentions like Chowder and The Secret Saturdays...
Thanks for your art!!!
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~Dadward Mar 18, 2010  Professional Filmographer
Thanks for your thoughtful comments. In a lot of ways, I boiled down to it's essence what has inspired my over the last 30 years.
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`vest Mar 18, 2010
And Flapjack! :w00t:
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~Zaelya Mar 18, 2010
so this is what you were working on today? XP
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~Dadward Mar 18, 2010  Professional Filmographer
It was yesterday actually. Today was the screening. I waited till after the screening to post.
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~Zaelya Mar 18, 2010
aaaah spiffyface. so that's why you were "really really busy" XD
totally came out great.
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~Dadward Mar 18, 2010  Professional Filmographer
*bows humbly* thank you.
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~kalad1 Mar 18, 2010
I note the way the missiles fly.
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