{"id":535,"date":"2011-05-26T09:38:27","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T13:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/?p=535"},"modified":"2011-05-26T09:41:09","modified_gmt":"2011-05-26T13:41:09","slug":"thinking-about-animating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/thinking-about-animating\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking about animating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.ca\/search?sourceid=chrome&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;q=Fall+Weather+Friends#q=Fall+Weather+Friends&#038;hl=en&#038;prmd=ivns&#038;source=lnms&#038;tbm=vid&#038;ei=VFjeTeSXIsTh0QHp2Ii7Cg&#038;sa=X&#038;oi=mode_link&#038;ct=mode&#038;cd=3&#038;ved=0CA8Q_AUoAg&#038;bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&#038;fp=7113a7f4eace3956&#038;biw=1380&#038;bih=1128\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lilithebowman.com\/gif\/rainbow_dash_launched.gif\" alt=\"Rainbow Dash being launched by some tree sap in Fall Weather Friends\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So I have had a <a href=\"http:\/\/p0-.deviantart.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">DeviantArt<\/a> account for a long time now and I&#8217;ve been posting whatever random crap I decide to doodle there for years now. I&#8217;ve owned the account since 2004 but hadn&#8217;t really posted anything beyond a single Oekaki drawing between 2004 and 2007.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also always had a minor interest in art but I ignored these interests for a long time because I was drawn more toward computers which seemed to be a solid career path.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m starting to realize that maybe I&#8217;d like to try to freelance as an animator or artist somehow, but I&#8217;m not nearly good enough. So I&#8217;ve been practising by trying to vectorize animations from popular cartoons. So far I&#8217;ve found this process quite an uphill battle in Flash. I found making vectors really easy in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/products\/photoshopfamily.html\" target=\"_blank\">Photoshop<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/illustrator\/\" target=\"_blank\">Illustrator<\/a> (or in the free application <a href=\"http:\/\/inkscape.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Inkscape<\/a>). But I spent the better part of an hour last night figuring out how to outline and fill just one flat-shaded region in Flash.<\/p>\n<p>After that I was quicker though. I was able to flat-shade a few more regions in no time at all. Well this is a journey of 10000 hours, and I think I&#8217;ve just made my first step.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I have had a DeviantArt account for a long time now and I&#8217;ve been posting whatever random crap I decide to doodle there for years now. I&#8217;ve owned the account since 2004 but hadn&#8217;t really posted anything beyond a single Oekaki drawing between 2004 and 2007. I&#8217;ve also always had a minor interest in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":538,"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions\/538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}