Doublehappy Studios

Character Sketches and Animation Tests

Sketch Experiment : Using the pencil tool to create realistic grass Flash, 72k
playing around with the pencil tool in flash. Created after reading this tutorial at flashfilmmaker.com!

Sketch Experiment : Using the pencil tool to create realistic grass take 2 Flash, 92k
Couldn't resist!

Animated Test : Squibble on a Bicycle Flash, 41k
Test for possible animation idea.

Animated Test : Plasma Ball Flash, 12k
Test for an ecard.

Animated Sketch : Egyptian Sunrise Flash, 56k
Background test for an animation project in progress.

Animated Sketch : Spooky! Flash, 21k
Just in time for Halloween!

Hand-drawn Walk Cycle : Squibble Flash, 28k
Hand-drawn using a lightbox, and then scanned into flash and coloured.

Animation Test : Boat in a Storm Flash, Photoshop, 58k
This is part of the unfinished short animation 'The Letter'. The Boat was hand-drawn and painted in Photoshop, and the background was also painted in Photoshop. The water, rain and lightning effects were animated in Flash.

Character Sketch : Monkey Flash, Cel Shader, 92k
Hand drawn and coloured in flash with Cel Shader!

Character Test : Ladybug Flash, Cel Shader, 20k
Hand drawn and animated in flash. Coloured with Cel Shader!

Character Rotation : Squibble : Flash, Cel Shader, 32k
Hand drawn and scanned into flash. Each frame coloured by hand using Cel Shader!

Rough Animation : Squibbledance! : Flash, 500k
See Squibble dance! Click on the squibble-head buttons to her right! Drawn and animated suing the paintbrush tool in flash

Character Test : The Evolution of Squibble : Flash, 80k
If Squibble was a real cartoon character, how would she have evolved? Hand drawn and scanned into flash, coloured with Cel Shader.

Character Sketch : Egyptian : Flash, 80k
Hand drawn and scanned into flash. Coloured using Cel Shader and gradients.

Movement Test : Little Miss Mac : Flash, 8k

Character Test : Little Miss Mac : Flash, 8k

Character Test : P.C. : Flash, 8k
I used a fantastic program from flashfilmaker.com called 'Cel Shader', and I am very pleased with the look! You can now upgrade to Cel Shader's big brother, Toon Titan! The animation is from a hand drawn sketch, imported into flash and then traced over and coloured. Hooray!

Character Test : Gorgonilly! : Flash, 40k Character Test using Expression 3 and flash.

Animated Lion Flash, 395k
First ever completed animation! This lion was hand-drawn and scanned using a hand-held scanner into a mac classic, then put together in gif builder in 1996. For this version, the frames were re-scanned, coloured in photoshop, and then the animation was put together in Flash MX.