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2 years ago
A helpful reminder, with music. Made to commemorate the relaunch of my portfolio and blog at bombsfall.com

This was done with After Effects and Soundforge over the course of a couple of days. I got to experiment with new styles and new techniques. I'm reasonably happy with how it turned out.

10 points to those who can identify the song the snake is playing on the xylophone.

There's a very good chance some of these guys will end up on prints in the very near future. Stay tuned.
  • Charles Huettner 3 weeks ago
    woah, scott! that turned out awesome
  • Scott Benson plus 3 weeks ago
    No Charles, YOU turned out awesome. HOW ABOUT THAT?
  • Charles Huettner 3 weeks ago
    oh no! this plot twist has exploded my brain! didnt need it anyway.
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  • Rebecca Hayes plus 3 weeks ago
    Love this, Scott!! Can't even choose a favourite character.

    Site looks great too! x
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  • oneedo 3 weeks ago
    Lookin' good!
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  • Kirsten Lepore 3 weeks ago
    Awesome!!! I love the way those animals are animated, too! :)
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  • Neil Sanders 3 weeks ago
    I'm going to think of something that starts out big and
    BLOW YOUR THEORY OUT OF THE WATER, someday.
  • Scott Benson plus 3 weeks ago
    Bring it!
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  • H2KO 3 weeks ago
    Always, AMAZING! congrats for the new job!
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  • Rocketpanda plus 3 weeks ago
    Obviously amazing as usual.
    Love the style, simple yet really nice, not to mention the illustrations look amazing.
    Great job!
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  • AllaKinda 3 weeks ago
    wow! no words!
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  • Marian Mentrup 3 weeks ago
    timing and style and irony, wonderful!

    can't figure out that tune dammit
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  • Claudio Salas plus 3 weeks ago
    This is really sweet man!!!
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  • Mar Quintana 3 weeks ago
    ^___________^
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  • Iorek 3 weeks ago
    Great hand-painted treatment, lovely character design, a really nice chirpy concept. A really nice upbeat clip to discover on a grey monday morning!
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  • Jan Luts 3 weeks ago
    Looks great!
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  • spylabs plus 3 weeks ago
    Love it!
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  • Animade plus 3 weeks ago
    I love those characters, and your colour palette is as rich as ever. - shared on animade.tv
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  • The animated texture over the animals is great. I also like the way the little 'sparks' that pop out from the instruments dissove.
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  • Vladimir Tomin 3 weeks ago
    Fabulous character design!

    +> i-olly.com/?p=1944
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  • Yasser Azmy 3 weeks ago
    i watch it serval times :)
    awsome work
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  • Monamics plus 3 weeks ago
    lovely!
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  • Tim McCourt 3 weeks ago
    lovely! great style, I've posted it to the peg bar and grill
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  • Adam Brandon plus 3 weeks ago
    Awesome! Sounds a little like the beginning of 'Girls' by Beastie Boys, although i'm probably way off...
  • Scott Benson plus 3 weeks ago
    No, but that would have been amusing.
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  • Craig Knowles 3 weeks ago
    Gorgeous!
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  • Desrumaux Celine plus 3 weeks ago
    cute + beautiful = Wouhhhh :)
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  • superelectric 3 weeks ago
    that made me smile big! thank you.
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  • Beautifull
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  • Great, great, great!
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  • Denman Rooke plus 3 weeks ago
    Absolutely fantastic my friend. Love the new style & technique.
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  • Marie-Agnès Michel 3 weeks ago
    A masterpiece of poetry
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  • Daniel Belay plus 3 weeks ago
    Nice style and sound!
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  • Spranks 3 weeks ago
    Great idea and great job.
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  • Nice!
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  • Chris Koelsch plus 3 weeks ago
    love the character design. Shared on my blog, This 'n That: thisnthatandsomeshirts.com
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  • Shabello plus 3 weeks ago
    Loving the textures and feel of this! Now inspired to do my own EVERYTHING STARTS SMALL animation - seems you've started a bit of a movement here!
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  • J-Scott plus 3 weeks ago
    Love this, Posted at icecreamhater.tumblr.com/
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  • Jate Earhart 3 weeks ago
    This is amazing.
    Was that tuba sound made with AE's tone generator? It sounds like it almost could have been!
  • Scott Benson plus 3 weeks ago
    The tuba sound was made by a bear playing the tuba. Couldn't you see what was on screen? This is a documentary!
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  • Thiago Calçado 3 weeks ago
    Great Job!
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  • Rafael Macho plus 3 weeks ago
    Beautiful work, awesome texture!
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  • Phil Borst plus 3 weeks ago
    awesome illustration, so fun!
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  • Filios 3 weeks ago
    Really really like this!
    Lovely characters, interesting textures, and I agree with Lucas Redfern Brooking about the sparks!

    Hope you don't mind if I ask how did you achieve that wiggling edge effect?
  • Shabello plus 3 weeks ago
    i reckon its either the roughen edges filter ot turbulent displacement on an adjustment layer with a time*4000 on the evolution?
  • Scott Benson plus 3 weeks ago
    Warmer.
  • Filios 3 weeks ago
    Thanks for replying, Scott!! Though I'm not sure what do you mean with Warmer, lol. But my approach was very similar to Shabello's.

    Keep doing this charming animations!
  • Scott Benson plus 3 weeks ago
    It's a combo of 2 instances of roughen edge, turbulent displace, some precomping and time posterization. Also: necromancy.
  • Filios 3 weeks ago
    Of course! necromancy... how did I missed that? so I guess it's perfectly valid to say that your magic potion worked like a charm!

    Yo can use this instead of precomping and applying time posterization, as you can control the evolution every x frames (50 degrees every 2 frames in this example):

    degreesPerTick = 50;
    framesPerTick = 2;
    value + Math.floor(timeToFrames(time)/framesPerTick)*degreesPerTick

    This was the solution I stumbled on, hope you can take advantage of this in the future and thanks for your (really) detailed explanation ;)
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  • Virgil Mihailescu 3 weeks ago
    be eaut tif ful!
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  • andy kennedy plus 3 weeks ago
    Awesome design! I need to watch this every time I feel overwhelmed at the start of a big project.
  • Scott Benson plus 3 weeks ago
    You and me both.
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  • Andrew Zimbelman 3 weeks ago
    Love this!
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  • Paulo Mosca 3 weeks ago
    Yeeeeepa!!!
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  • Yonny Zafrani 3 weeks ago
    Loved it.
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  • Looks great! superanimated textures!
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  • Rafa Toro 2 weeks ago
    truly wonderful!
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  • Najork plus 2 weeks ago
    lovely
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  • 榕可道 susanmy 2 weeks ago
    love you!!!
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  • penguin 2 weeks ago
    Awesome!!!
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  • dosve plus 2 weeks ago
    Great!
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  • pilkazo 2 weeks ago
    Magnifico!
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  • lilzee 2 weeks ago
    love it so much!!
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  • Willem Lagerwaard 1 week ago
    Nice work Scott! I love the bear and blurry thing on the flags! Works real good!
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