Some people say my Harut dances remind them of the Teen Titans go TV show intro dances on Cartoon Network. Probably cause I animate those too.
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Teen Titans Go! Season 5 aired today and so did the new dance I animated for the intro. For this one we decided to go with a choreographed group dance
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#TeenTitansGOMovie
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I was asked to animate a crappy 3D Teen Titans. So I did (first clip). Then they asked if I can make it even crappier. I did, and we literally laughed for a good 10 minutes watching it on repeat. See you all at the oscars. 🏆
The first test I did for the
@birdsofpreywb
animated sequence to prove we can keep the animation in-house and help set the style for animation. Animated in
@ToonBoom
Finished the latest Harut dance and compiled it into one music video with live backgrounds sent to me from Armenia 🇦🇲. Animated in
@ToonBoom
on a
@wacom
Cintiq. It would be cool to have him dancing all over the world.
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Here's a little trick I use in
@ToonBoom
for a variety of things such as in-betweening, focusing on subtle movements within the bigger movements and also keeping solid and on model.
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Here's the rough Teen Titans Go intro dance animation. You'll notice the characters missing hair and cloth cause I add those later. Oh and also....Go see the movie TODAY
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Finished a new Harut dance animation and added to a super compilation of all the dances. Animated in
@ToonBoom
on a
@wacom
cintiq. Music by
@TroyBoiMusic
The cleaned up and colored version of the test animation I did before we started officially working in the
#BirdsOfPrey
movie. The clean up and color was outsourced. The character design was done by
@shaneglines
This shot I animated for Teen Titans Go aired today. We decided to keep my pencil lines and not clean or color it. I personally love the pencil line look way more. Before anyone asks, Toonboom Harmony lol
You can tell how old this animation is from the phone Harut pulls out. I animated this in Flash which is NOT made for hand drawn animation. I would find work-arounds to do hand drawn animation using the vector brush tool, alpha layers for the light table effect, and so on.
Since people like seeing my rough animation. Here's a rough - clean up - then final, but you probably won't see this till later since you're at the theaters WATCHING THE MOVIE!
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The evolution of Harut through the years. Who here has been along for the whole ride and who just recently discovered him because of the dances?
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The final shot I animated for the intro of the
#birdsofprey
movie. We only had about 2 weeks to crank this stuff out. With more time I could have done better “but all things considered, I did good” 😜
Notice that I first animate it as a whole THEN break it apart into separate parts. You need your original rough to use as an anchor or else, once you start animating individual parts, you can end up going overboard and way off from your original intention
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In Armenian we have a saying "Tsavet Tanem" which means "Let me take your pain". It's also Harut's super power. The ability to absorb suffering from around the world (visible in his face) and convert it to happiness & joy through his body! ցաւդ տանեմ
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Here's the final dance. I animated this in partnership with
@wacom
using a 24HD Pro Cintiq and animating it entirely in
@ToonBoom
Harmony. My character is International Superstar Harut,and my reference was the great Fred Astaire!
Break down of the Bumblebee dance from rough to clean up and color. I animated the rough in Harmony but cleaned it up in Animate cc
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Plannning to rough to breaking into individual parts starting from the hips and moving to the rest. I use this process for cycles, not all animation. The dance is Armenian
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The legend himself Harut. Here I show how I handle the subtle animation happening in the face layer by layer. Animated in
@ToonBoom
on a
@wacom
with music by
@rmean
and
@MetsHayQ
Harut now has over 5 million views on Tiktok and Instagram combined. Here's a compilation with newest dances added. More coming!
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I’ve included two roughs of Starfire here. The first one was the original I roughed out, but we decided to go with something simpler and shorter to fit into the intro better, which is the second rough and final color
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Harut went to his barber and asked for something different than the usual old man balding look he asks for. Animated in
@ToonBoom
on a
@wacom
cintiq.
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Process of my animation study. I have the ref off to the side & try to capture the poses. The music is by an Arthur Khachents and was written for 45 Days War documentary covering the situation in Artsakh/Armenia. Dancer is Loriane Cateloy-Rose
This might be my favorite Harut dance lol. For this one I kept my rough pencil lines and just colored it as is. I personally like the look of rough animation more than tight clean up. Anyone else?
Animated in
@toonboomanimation
on a
@wacom
Cintiq 24pro.
Animation is more than just moving drawings on the screen. Here’s the same 24 drawings but with different spacing & then some squash & stretch applied at the end. This is just a simple ball bounce. Now imagine applying that concept to a full body that is thinking & feeling things
Experimenting with a 2D 3D hybrid method to create a turn for Harut. Designed in 2D. Used that to create very rough 3d model in
@autodesk
Maya. Imported 3D head into
@toonboom
& used it as a guide for a full turnaround. Goal is to use the 3d model as a maquette for
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Viking animation studies I did in
@ToonBoom
First one is Bjorn Ironside from the Vikings TV show and the other two are from The Northman. Hand drawn on a
@wacom
cintiq. It's an exercise I do where I frame through live action footage and try to capture it with my drawings. Like a
Breakdown of Starfire animation. The final piece is barely a second long, but you can see the amount of work that goes into a second of animation.
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