The 360s are an awesome idea! Thanks for posting about your process (and yesterday's pizza!)

It looks awesome, and it's great to see the rigs. We need to get you some more powerful mesh tools! (and I think you wanted some other feature? )

denis.alenti wrote

Thank you for your time and feel free to ask for more details if you're planing to use Spine in commercial TV production.

Wow you guys rocks! :yes: :yes:

Just need to ask for some questions. I'm making an animation for TV commercial.
Here goes the questions:
Do you separate the mouth pieces? or create a mesh for many vowel shapes?
Do you animate one character at a time and later combine in compositing software (after effects or others), or do you load the characters together in spine (for two to three characters interacting).

I think that's what crosses my mind just now. Will ask more later, if you don't mind.

Cheers!

If Spine allowed you to import audio with a visible waveform in the timeline I would use it over Harmony for my animation projects...

I watched this 3 times already and it's so cute and well animated! thanks for sharing! Will you also be able to put one episode online some time?
I wish you the best of luck, there's truly quality in your work (: (and it's soooo cute!)
Thanks for sharing, this was really ispiring.

ericbdg@gmail.com wrote

Do you separate the mouth pieces? or create a mesh for many vowel shapes?
Do you animate one character at a time and later combine in compositing software (after effects or others)

I think for this cartoon the characters don't speak, though they do mumble. I expect they just have a number of mouth shapes. They export from Spine and do compositing in other software (AE).

mayhemking wrote

If Spine allowed you to import audio with a visible waveform in the timeline I would use it over Harmony for my animation projects...

It is planned! For now you can use Spine's audio server to play audio sync'ed to Spine's playback.

Erikari wrote

Will you also be able to put one episode online some time?

Looks like there are 2 episodes here:
http://www.monsterentertainment.tv/catalogue/misho-robin/

Nate wrote

ericbdg@gmail.com wrote

Do you separate the mouth pieces? or create a mesh for many vowel shapes?
Do you animate one character at a time and later combine in compositing software (after effects or others)

I think for this cartoon the characters don't speak, though they do mumble. I expect they just have a number of mouth shapes. They export from Spine and do compositing in other software (AE).

I see. Thanks Nate, that helps

mayhemking wrote

If Spine allowed you to import audio with a visible waveform in the timeline I would use it over Harmony for my animation projects...

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It is planned! For now you can use Spine's audio server to play audio sync'ed to Spine's playback.

Oh this is awesome! Keep up the great work! :yes: :yes:

Hey guys! It's interesting to see how Spine goes beyond the videgame industry. I would like to ask you some fast questions!.

-Do you do the entire project in spine? (Backgrounds are implemented as well in spine?)
If so, how do you manage to change between shots?

-How do you export the files once the animation is finished?

Thanks for sharing that for us, is really inspiring :3

Note sure how closely denis.alenti is monitoring the thread, so I'll answer for him. They animate the characters in Spine, export to PNG sequences, then use After Effects for composition. Apparently this is a common workflow for cartooning, eg when drawing traditional frame-by-frame animation.

thanks to both for the answers!

I think the only option that would need spine to make this type of animation more viable would be the ability to draw in canvas, for posing and specially if you work with FX.