24HCD

Where have I been these days? My last post was in May! 

There were a lot of deadlines came and went, sometimes it came without a decent pay (DANG it!). But hey, I'm going to enjoy this 24 Hours Comic Day moment on October 5th. I'll post the progress in this blog and sanggarkoebus.weebly.com as well.

Wish me luck and ALL of comic artists all over the globe who celebrate this moment.

Tough Trial!!

A very tough trial indeed! 

Indonesia badminton national team will play against the unbent China at the Sudirman's Cup quarterfinal. Indonesia was beaten to pulp five to nothing on the previous group A-level 1 game. Yet IMO, the QF will be quite different since Lilyana Natsir and Tontowi Yahya are listed on the first match.

We, as well, has a very tough time ahead of us. You know, sometimes we feel too lazy to do another different step, or to change our route when we're going to go to somewhere, afraid that it would be very wrong. We could only bear with it, should we tripped over, or lose our feet, we would just laugh, do another try, and make it one of our great moments.

Well, let's make this morning different and SEMANGAT UNTUK TIMNAS!!

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Hey, what's up? Long time no see, apparently. Been busy with our new place and some of the projects. Had fun, we did. A lot of it. We also released our simple web to see what we were doing and stuff happening on our small studio in the middle of Yogyakarta.

Have you ever had a feeling that you could bear all the problems you had yourself? They were -perhaps- so big, or so embarrassing, or ... I dunno, your shoulder felt amazingly heavy, yet you hesitated to find someone to help you, until a knife or a gun becomes 'peculiarly friendly'. 

We all did, I suppose. But hey, we all get through it, right? I hope we do.

Enjoy!

Women's Day

Delia the teacher, Mia the engineer, and Rara the adventurer. I noticed March, 8th today is the Internatinal Women's Day and I'd like to greet all females of the world for this special day for you.

You Know It Is

To all lover birds, dreamers, adventurers, and masochists... enjoy the Saturday night :D

Leyak and Lost Lollipop

Okay, I'm a bit impatience to show this to you guys.

And apparently I've missed Mandy Marahaimin, Agung, and @dondihananto in the credit. I've just realized it when rechecked the audio codec last night. I'm so sorry, it's solely my error. I'll make sure this error is fixed for the short festivals copies.

Nevertheless, enjoy!

Animating with PAP

Hello,

Let's say goodbye to January and welcome the warm February. Jogja is getting warmer, in fact. I've been waiting for rainy days since Sunday it poured lightly only on midnight for about 15 minutes. The rest were warm and humid hours, our fan in the studio set on the maximum speed and I feel better inside the Transjogja bus, they provide cool breezed air-conditioner and nice-warm seats as well.

I'd like to write a bit about this handy software we were using on Rara and The Ricketies, PAP. Plastic-Animation-Paper version 4.0. Sincerely, it's handy. Let's talk about it slowly, shall we?

Get it from and put it on

You may type 'plastic animation paper' on the search engines you trust and you'll be directed to this link. We could freely download the PAP from the site and install it without any annoying demands or reminders to buy something from them. A very huuuge thanks to the Danish company that made it for free :D ...

It doesn't need expensive requirements for the hardwares. My slow Brazos 1,65Ghz-2GB memory-dedicated HD6470M can do the job. It runs on Win2000/XP (does on Win7 as well) or Linux, yet I don't know the installation proccess for the latter. Also, you'd need a drawing tablet to draw: wacom, genius pen tablet, etc.

The installation is quite fast: get a coffee, sip it, and put the mug back where it used to, and your installation is done. It takes only 15mb of your hard drive.

User interface

It didn't take a very long time for me to learn tools and how-to. My colleague told me the basic instruments and I suppose we all can find the how-to by ourselves. PAP site also provides tutorials, though I've never visited it since I first used this software *chuckle.

Let's see, sketches, cleaning-ups, cut-copy-paste, rotate the canvas, set frame rate, layers, etc. all you can get for a hand-drawn animation.

Output

This step is the most boring and tiresome of the whole thing. But I think we would expect the same fate in hand-drawn during the exporting or scanning outlines, colorings, composing in the compose softwares, etc.

The native filetype for PAP is in .lap or .pap and there are 7 types of images we could save it to: png, bmp, tif, jpeg, tga, gif, and psd, and 2 types of movies: avi-cinepak and avi-divx. 

I've been exporting our works into .png images then put the colorings by GIMP 2.6.11. Sometimes we used PAP's .avi-cinepak outputs to do the line tests and see if they were good enough before switched them to GIMP. 

Shortly, PAP worth inside your side-pocket if you were into hand-drawn or traditional animation. And I think these are all I can recall from our works with PAPv4.0 in Rara and The Ricketies. Would I remember something, I'll make sure it's posted.

Example video is here :D

enjoy!