Sad Penguin
3 years ago
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36. Sad Penguin
3 years ago
A few years ago, I wrote a little tune called 'Sad Penguin'. I recently discovered it again, and decided to remake it (in GarageBand). Then I got carried away and decided to make an animation to go with it (although I adapted the tune a bit to fit with the animation). This is it!
Orignally there was a sad ending, but after seeing it so many times (during the animating process) I got really depressed, so I changed it to have this ending. Now I think I went too far the other way, but I can't be bothered to change it again.
Technical Stuff:
I drew each frame in MSPaint (yes, each frame, there's about 1400 of them). Some of the hardest parts are probably the bits you wouldn't notice unless I pointed them out, e.g. the bubbles when he falls into the water. I was trying out an animation technique of colouring him in by scribbling, but doing it for each frame so that it constantly changes. In retrospect it was probably a bad idea, because it doesn't look particularly good and made a lot more work for me! I put it all together in Windows Movie Maker. I got the sound effects from 'Klik and Play' - the same program I used to help make this animation;
vimeo.com/clip:154569
Orignally there was a sad ending, but after seeing it so many times (during the animating process) I got really depressed, so I changed it to have this ending. Now I think I went too far the other way, but I can't be bothered to change it again.
Technical Stuff:
I drew each frame in MSPaint (yes, each frame, there's about 1400 of them). Some of the hardest parts are probably the bits you wouldn't notice unless I pointed them out, e.g. the bubbles when he falls into the water. I was trying out an animation technique of colouring him in by scribbling, but doing it for each frame so that it constantly changes. In retrospect it was probably a bad idea, because it doesn't look particularly good and made a lot more work for me! I put it all together in Windows Movie Maker. I got the sound effects from 'Klik and Play' - the same program I used to help make this animation;
vimeo.com/clip:154569
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It is truly heroic of you to have made an animation of this quality in MSPaint- do yourself a favour and purchase a decent animation program! You will save yourself hours of effort.
It wasn't quite as bad as drawing 1400 frames because there is some repetition, but there is still just over 500 seperate frames I think.
Better software would definitely be a blessing, although I think I've had enough of animations for the time being. I'll probably start doing them again in a few months or something, and then I'll think about getting new software.
I'm so glad you changed the ending!
I expect happy endings from my American brethren (and sisteren), but not you.
As your attorney and spiritual advisor, I suggest the following Euro-Appropriate endings:
1. Penguin swims away and meets Kate Moss & Pete Doherty. After a weeklong binge of spiking Speedballs, Penguin is mercilessly headbutted to death by Zidane over who gets the last piece of pizza in the takeout box.
2. Penguin swims to France. Is overcome by ennui. He writes a 20-volume opus, "A La Recherche Du Temps Penguine" then impales himself on a very stale bagette. As he bleeds to death in hospital, he realizes that socialized medicine is in fact a bad idea.
3. He moves to Wales.
1) Penguin falls into the sea, where he is blasted into the air by a whale's blow hole. He enjoys a few quick seconds of flying with the gull before plummeting back to earth with a splat!
2) Penguin falls into the sea, where he realises he can 'fly' underwater. Then get's eaten by a whale.
3) Penguin realises that with a run up he CAN fly with the gull! Only to be harpooned by the 'Lost at sea' crew from the other animation.
i've always been partial to penguins.
that bird is a little cutie pie
but nice clip ;)
where do you find that kind of patience?
this is great!
Well don !!
sad penguins are oddly depressing.
ah! now i'm getting sad thinking about sad penguins!!!
You should buy Flash 8 so you don't have to draw as much.
I love it. Flash Buckroy! ;-)
The song was great, it definitely emoted what I was seeing. I always find it, an interesting process to create a song, then make visuals for it, always awesome. I usually work in the opossite direction, but it has been fun when I didn't. I can see how it would have ended up depressing too. But I liked the ending!
Don't worry little penquin, you can't fly, but you can swim and do some kick ass ice slides!!!
BRAVO!!!!!!!!!
I wanted to prove that you can make animations with software that comes free with your computer. I think I proved that you can - but it's bloody hard work!!!!
I'm glad I did it now though. It's great to have something to go with the music after all these years!
I applaud your patience. It turned out quite nicely (the animation, not your patience...although I guess that kinda turned out nicely too).
*phones mental hospital to request a padded cell*
The moving things a couple of pixels at a time, was for things like when he was running.