GUYS YOU HAVE TO WATCH OUT FOR THE GUARD DOG GLOBAL JAM.
it's going to be SIIIIIIIICK.
well, I'll try to make some more sense.
Basically, there's an independent animator called Bill Plympton, and he made a sort called Guard Dog.
Now, he's crowdsourced it, which means that he put up an online global jam in which any animator from any background can remake a shot.
http://www.shadowandact.com/?p=26352 this explains it more, plus you can see the original short
I entered in it as a way to push myself to do full drawn animation (what I've been doing isnt very pixelly anyway, so might as well go all the way)
today was a deadline to send a still snapshot what the colored version of your shot should look like.
it
was
amazing
I felt QUITE out of place, these are real profesionals...not conceited little pixel animators.
here's some stuff from it which was posted OUTSIDE the email (youtube, deviantart), I dont know if peopple want stuff from the emails to be shown.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUg1zAxju0s&feature=player_embeddedhttp://hoekkadoogen.deviantart.com/#/d2zq0rr <-see that? that guy must fucking work for spumco...the bastard.
Ugh...actually there is nothing else posted that was outside of the email =/ sorry. but it blew me away...and it keeps on coming! more and more people post their shot and it's INSANE. KYHXBYE that was it for my irrational outburst for the day (on web forums, anyway)