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♥ Team Spark Animation

18 juli 2019 by Delinlea Leave a Comment

Hey Lovelies! I have been pretty busy lately, so I wasn’t able to make something crafty for you today. I was working on a dance animation for my favorite group, Team Spark a Chinese group. They announced a Dance Cover Contest about a month ago, and because of reasons, I can’t dance. I tried to think outside the box, as I usually do and decided to draw an animation of the dance. But never realized how much work that actually is. I thought I could do the whole MV before the deadline, turned out, I could only do half of it. xD. I’ll gonna explane how I made it and show you what my end result is in this blog. So, if you feel like doing it as well one day, you know how to do it!

Team Spark Animation, Pile of Paper
The Pile of Paper that I used, with my cute panda Art Doll

Rotoscoping

First, I downloaded the Joker dance MV by Team Spark. I needed it for the technique I wanna use, called Rotoscoping. That basicly means you are gonna trace every frame of the movie/clip you wanna use. Usually this is done digitally, but there’s always going something wrong if I work digital, (I’ve some fun stories about me and electronics tho, but not now!) so better not for me. That’s why I chose to do it on paper, what’s actually more work, I’ll explane later.

Then I opened Photoshop and opened the ‘Animation’ option (You can find that under the tab window). Then I dragged and dropped the MV in there. I set the frame rate to 11FPS, normally it was 25.. gosh I can’t imagine if I had to draw 25 frames per second. I would have never finished even 30 seconds xD. I probably could have set the frame rate to 10, but yeah, not sure what I was thinking xD.

Tracing

Now everything was ready to go, I had to cut my paper from A4 to A6. I didn’t wanna use big sheets for this, just big enough to make it work. So yeah, that’s another extra step I had to take. I am used to cutting paper sheet and survived them all without getting injured haha!

From here I made sure that I positioned my paper at the same spot every time. This is very important to make it work at all. So I got the rulers out in photoshop and dragged some guides for the size of my paper, those lines need to stay there all the time, so I locked them. When that was done, it was time to start.

I taped my paper to my screen and made sure I could see though it, I made my room dark and my screen as light as possible. This way I could see the image through my paper and start tracing.

Make decisions

While tracing I was in control who I wanted to draw and who should dissapear etc. I had fun playing around with people coming in and out of screen. This way it was also faster to finish it. If I had drawn everyone on screen all the time, it would have taken me even more time. And this way you also could get a creative aspect in there.
I sometimes had to make up things as well, when it got covered by something or someone, but I guess it’s not noticeable in the video, yay!

No clue if it would work out

I wasn’t sure if it all was working out, I only could flip all pages in my hand to check a bit. But I would know for sure if I scanned/edited/animated everything together. Most of the time it was just praying it was going to work.

Scanning

After I had drawn all the frames I wanted (I wanted to go up to after the chorus, so around 1min 35sec). I realized how many papers I had to scan and edit. I had drawn 1035 individual images, my pile was huge. These all had to be scanned. I did it per 2 at the same time. To give my scanner a break as well. Those scans needed to be cutted out to the right, same size and saved as the right number of frame. I couldn’t mess up, if I did, my animation was ruined. This process took me a few days >_<.

Animating

I did this in photoshop, used the same thing as I used in the beginning, only a bit different. First is was a timeline animation, but now I was using frame animation. Every image got it’s own frame and I set the time that the frame was shown to 0,09sec. While the first frame of every sec was shown for 0,1sec.

This was pretty time consuming to do, but not as much as the other things I had to do before this. It went pretty smootly up till the moment I got to the end and photoshop refused to save my work. so I tried to render the video without it all being saved, and guess what. Photoshop crashed.
I had to redo about 300 frames, so not that much, but by that time I was pretty frustrated and running out of time. I actually wanted to have it up that day. That did not happen, it was already 9pm when photoshop crashed. I decided it was better to stop, calm down  and continue the next day.

Make the Video

So the next day I got the animating process done pretty fast, it went smoothly this time. But I knew I wasn’t done yet. I still had to add music and I wanted to film a small part where I show the pile of paper I used.

I switched to the program Magix to finish it all up. What I noticed was when I added my animation with the music, it didn’t line up. So I actually set the frame rate in my video to I believe 12,20FPS. Now it sorta lined up properly with the dance moves. I added my video of the pile of paper and some text and exported the whole thing. Now it was finally almost over. Just uploading on youtube and other social media and I got it all done before the deadline.

Here’s my animation!

I’m pretty statified with hou my video turned out!even tho it took forever to finish, over 80 hours >_<. I’m happy everything worked out. Now the waiting game starts and I am not even sure if my entry gets accepted. Let’s find out. At least I’ve shown my boys some love! That’s what counts, right?! ^^

Now I need a massage (any volunteers?! xD) and plenty of time to relax/sleep xD

Love
Danielle

Posted in: animation, Contest, Social Media Tagged: animation, cpop, drawing, fanmade, joker, rotoscoping, team spark

♥ Caran D’Ache Contest

1 maart 2018 by Delinlea 2 Comments

Hey Lovelies!

Today won’t be a DIY but I will be talking about my experience with a Contest and what I won. haha Okay I already gave it away. But you will get details later~

Back in November last year(!) (that feels ages ago already) Caran D’Ache announced on their instagram that they will hold a contest. And the theme was Super Heroes! Well.. to be honest, I am not really into super heroes. So the struggle started. As they said to create your own super hero, I got excited! Because.. now I could create a drawing that’s close to myself instead of drawing an already excisting super hero, that I don’t really like.

Super Hero

Caran D’Ache created this contest to celebrate the new super hero movie, Justice League. They made some ballpoint pens in order to celebrate. This was what you could win, a full set of Justice League ballpoint pens. And an additional prize will be chosen by one of the 3 CDArtists. So it depended on by who you got chosen as a winner in order to know what the exact prize would be. And as Heather Rooney, a CDArtist, (You should totally check her out!) was one of the judges.. I decided to join. I’ll tell you later why.

Tight Deadline

So the contest was announced nov 3rd, and the deadline was nov 17th. Pretty tight deadline, how to get a full colored drawing done in such a small amount of time, in the like busiest time of the year! I didn’t even had an idea yet of what to draw! aaaa! the frustration was real, I wanted to join so badly but ideas were lacking. So, I asked my brother and sister for some advice, since they do love super heroes. And my brother said ‘you should look up Poison Ivy, but you could use dragons as well in your drawing’. Actually I could do anything, as long as I made up a story. Well, I looked up Poison Ivy and that gave me finally some ideas after days of thinking of the subject.

I searched for some hours for the right reference I wanted to use. (This is the stock photo I used) I always have an idea of the pose I wanna use, but to find that pose in a picture within seconds. That never happened. I lost more time, but I could finally start after the struggle of coming up with an idea.


The Stock photo I used.

The Drawing

I believe I drew the whole drawing within a week. The last day I worked on it.. I pushed through to get it done. Since the next day I had to go to the dentist and that was also deadline day. Well I could tell you, I was so happy I pushed through and got it done before the dentist. Cause when I came back from there, I felt so sick (I’m horrible with anesthesia), I wouldn’t have been able to finish it if I didn’t finished it the night before.


Waiting

I got it up on Instagram, since that was the way to enter. And now the waiting started. There wasn’t a date set for the announcement, so, Yeah wait till there was activity somewhere haha.

On nov 25th the first 3 winners were announced by Heather! And YES I WAS ONE OF THEM! I was so excited! I couldn’t believe it! There were so many good entries! But I was in her top 3. Altough it wasn’t clear if I won something, I thought only the number 1 had won, and I was stated as second. A lot confusion over there. I tried to ask what I won, but nobody replied, until after the weekend. They changed the post and stated all 3 will get a full set of Justice League ballpoint pens and a box of Luminance 6901 colored pencils! YAY! That’s where I did it for! Those pencils.. they are just amazing! But so expensive, I only own 3 at that moment.

After all winners were be announced, 9 in total, Caran D’Ache contacted us privately (about a week past again) and asking us for our address. I gave it and they replied that it could be that we would recieve the goods at the end of December cause of busiest time of the year. All shipping was slow.

Lost hope

Time went by, I waited and waited, but still no package. In the mean time the year ended and new year started and still nothing. In the end I wrote them again, to tell them I still hadn’t reveived my things. And they didn’t reply.. I could see they saw my notice, but nothing back. Now I got really scared.. lost hope that I will ever get what I won. More time went by..

Someone rings the door..

It was the end of January and someone rang the door, my mom opened and I thought it would be a package for my sister. But my mom said it was for me.. I was clueless cause I didn’t expect anything, right?! Then I saw the logo of Caran D’Ache on the package and I got so excited! I couldn’t believe it was finally here! I lost all hope but it is actually here! I immediatly started opening the huge box (it was bigger then expected). And I couldn’t believe my eyes!  IT WAS A FULL SET OF LUMINANCE 9601 COLORED PENCILS and 6 Justice Leagea ballpoint pens. I knew I would get these pens and pencils but I thought I would get a set of 12 Luminance colored pencils haha. It was never stated we would get a full set! Beyond amazing!

Here are some drooling pictures of the box and pens!




I haven’t tried the pencils yet, no time haha. But I hope to find some time soon to try them.. wait.. I wanna do a portrait with them, but who to draw?! *sigh the struggle is real.. every. time. But, I guess, that’s part of the creative process xD. I will let you know when I got the chance to try them!

Love Danielle

Posted in: Contest, Drawing Tagged: art, caran d'ache, contest, drawing, Fantasy, justice league, super hero

♥ Contest Winner!

1 februari 2018 by Delinlea Leave a Comment

Hey Lovelies!

Do you remember that contest from my Christmas Countdown! Well it ended last week and it’s time to announce the winner!

Only 2 people joined, but it wasn’t about the amount of people who would join. I wanted to draw this lineart dragon tree for a long time, and I finally did, so I am already happy 2 people joined! And I think they enjoyed coloring this picture!

So these were the entries I got.

This one by k.fanart_r.art (Salma)

And I had another one by jr_panda2778 on twitter, but she deleted her entry. So I guess that means she’s out.

So yeah that makes it very easy for me to choose a winner!! it’s Salma (k.fanart_r.art) Congratulations girl!! You will get the prizes as soon asap. I’ll contact you soon.

Have a wonderful day everyone!

Love
Danielle

Posted in: Christmas, Christmas Countdown 2017, Contest Tagged: Christmas, christmascountdown, contest, winner

♥ My Entry For a Faber Castell Contest

18 januari 2018 by Delinlea Leave a Comment

Hey lovelies!

So in november Faber Castell announced on their social media (link) that they were gonna hold a contest for their limited edition Albrecht Dürer cup. Albrecht Dürer is their watercolor pencil line. I own a set of 12, but I never truely used them, the way they are supposed to be used haha. So I got excited, cause you had to use those pencils for this contest.

♥ Under Water

The theme was ‘Under Water’ and you had to use those watercolor pencils for you entry. To show, in your work, what you can archieve with those pencils. This was gonna be a challenge for me. 1. I had never used the pencils with water, 2. I hate watercolors cause my paper never stays flat *frustration here*.

Well with theme I can go, I love the water life etc. It’s always so pretty! I really needed to come up with a deasign. It gave me more trouble as I thought. Maybe also because of the situation at home. There was not a lot of room for staying in the brainstorm fase tho, because the deadline was december 18. (great timing Faber Castell >_< in the busiest time of the year you set a deadline for a contest yay).

In the end I stayed true to myself and came up with an idea that I love the most, dragons, waterdragons with corals, dolphins and sea slugs. Now all I had to do, is get the right paper, I had tried different papers with watercolors so far. Those weren’t my fav at all.. so I did go to my fav store and asked there for advice… well… to be honest, I’m still not very happy with the paper. Enough rambling about that, I probably will never find the paper to my likings xD maybe if it is really thick..but they didn’t had that at the store I go to.



♥ The Painting

My progress was very slow in the beginning. I couldn’t concentrate much. AND in the midst of my Chirstmas Countdown… what was I doing to myself ORZ. But in the end I finished 2 drawing/paintings (You needed to download a template so you knew how big the drawings needed to be). I got my work in just minutes before the deadline. Later I found out, I forgot to add certain things, small, but still details that are missing. Maybe I should add them still.. hmm. Here is what I made for this contest:

Now it’s January and the winner is announced. I already knew I didn’t got through to the next round. (if you didn’t got an email by dec 22, you didn’t make it) Too bad tho, cause I love how my entry looks, but I could understand it wasn’t a winning piece. I should have sticked with the plan to keep a lot of white in the drawing. Oh well, nothing to do about it anymore! I still learned a lot by making this piece of art. I know how to use those watercolor pencils now. I might use them more in the future if I feel to. Let’s find out.

I edited my painting on the pictures Faber Castell used. xD Just to see how mine would look like. I love it, what do you think?!
Have a beautiful day everyone!

Love
Danielle

Posted in: Contest, Drawing Tagged: albrecht dürer, colored pencil, contest, Dragon, faber castell, under water, water, watercolor pencil

♥ Day 3: Minnie Tsum Tsum Amigurumi

3 december 2017 by Delinlea 2 Comments

Hey Lovelies!

Since we have made a Mickey Tsum Tsum, we need to make Minnie Tsum Tsum as well. You can’t have a Mickey without Minnie, right?!
Anyway, time is going so fast haha, I hope you have some time to make at least a few of the DIYs I post. These days are always so hectic. So, lets relax a bit with making these cuties. Here’s the pattern for Minnie.

Minnie tsum tsum

So for this DIY you will need:
♥  Yarn: in the colors Beige, Black, Red, Yellow and White.
♥  Cloud Yarn in white (optional).
♥  Crochet hook.
♥  Stitch marker.
♥  Fiber fill.
♥  Yarn needle.
♥  Embroidery needle with thread or felt.(Black)
♥  Scissors.

Stitches used:
SC = Single Crochet.
DC = Double Crochet.
ST = Stitch.
Inc = Increase.
Dec = Decrease.
Slst = Slip Stitch.
(…) = Repeat the space in brackets the given number of times.
[…] = Total number of stitches.

Minnie Tsum Tsum

♥ Pattern:

Body:
Start with Beige.

1: 6SC in magic ring. [6]
2: Inc in each st around. [12]
3: (1SC, inc), 6 times. [18]
4: (2SC, inc), 6 times. [24]
5: (3SC, inc) 2 times, 3SC, (1SC Beige and 1SC Black in the same st) Change back to Beige, (3SC, inc)3 times. [30]
6: (4SC, inc) 2 times, 3SC, change to Black, 1SC, inc, 1SC, Change back to Beige, 3SC, inc, (4SC, inc) 2 times. [36]
7: 5SC, inc, 2SC, change to Black, 3SC, inc, (5SC, inc) 2 times, 3SC, change Back to Beige, 2SC inc, 5SC inc. [42]
8: 8SC, change to black, 24SC, Change to Beige, 10SC. [42]
Change to Black.
9: SC in each st around. [42]
14: SC in each st around. [42]
Change to Red.
15: SC in each st around. [42]
16: Work in back loops only, SC in each st around. [42]
17: SC in each st around. [42]
|
26: SC in each st around. [42]
Change to White
27: Work in back loops onlu, SC in each st around. [42]
28: SC in each st around. [42]
29: SC in each st around. [42]
30: (5SC, dec), 6 times. [36]
31: (4SC, dec), 6 times. [30]
32: (3SC, dec), 6 times. [24]
33: (2SC, dec), 6 times. [18] Stuff the body here.
34: (1SC, dec), 6 times. [12]
35: Dec around. [6]
Fasten off and weave in tail.

Now join in the front loops of row 16 with Cloud yarn (or white if you don’t have the fluffy stuff) and Crochet 42 SC. Fasten off and weave in tail.

For her Skirt, join in the front loops of row 27 with Red.
1: SC in each st around. [42]
2: SC in each st around. [42]
3: (1SC, skip 1 st, 6DC in the next st, skip one st) 10 times. [66]
Fasten off and weave in tail.

Dots on her dress: (10)

Crochet 5SC in magic ring and fasten off. leave a long tail for sewing.

Minnie Tsum Tsum

Legs: (4)
Make 2 with white and 2 with yellow.

1: 4SC in magic ring. [4]
2: Inc in each st around. [8]
3: SC in each st around. [8]
|
5: SC in each st around. [8]
Fasten off and leave a long tail for sewing. You don’t have to stuff the legs.

Ears: (4)
In black.

1: 6SC in magic ring. [6]
2: Inc in each st around. [12]
3: (1SC, inc), 6 times. [18]
4: (2SC, inc), 5 times. [21] Fasten off.

Now sew 2 of the ears together so you get nice puffy ears, don’t stuff them tho.

Tail:

Chain 9, insert in second chain from hook and make 8 slst. Fasten off and leave long tail for sewing.

Bow:
In red.

1: CH22, insert in 3rd chain from hook, 20DC, turn [20]
2: Ch1, 20DC, turn [20]
3: Ch1, 20DC. [20]
Fasten off and sew both ends together so you get a circle. Keep the sewd together part in the middle wher the middle band of the bow comes and flatten it.

Middle part of the bow:
In red.

1: Ch 9, insert in 2nd chain from hook, 8SC, turn. [8]
2: Ch1, 8SC, turn. [8]
3: Ch1, 8SC. [8]
Fasten off and sew both ends together and place it in the middle of the main part of the bow. The easiest way to do this to sew it around it. Leave long tail to sew it onto her head.

Minnie Tsum Tsum

♥ Assembling

To make sure you sew all parts in the right place, you can use some sewing pins to position them. When you are happy with the position, you can sew them on.
Sew the legs on to the bottom of the body, the front legs are pointing to the front. The back legs are pointing to the side.
As for the ears, sew them about 2 or 3 layers from the face. Use my photo’s as a guideline to place them on the right spot.
In the middle of the ears, sew the bow. and fluff it up a bit.
The tail you’ll sew on her butt.
Sew the Dots on her skirt.
For the eyes and nose you can either choose to use felt or you can embroider them on. I chose to embroider them on, cause yeah why choose the easy way haha. But which way you choose, Minnie will look cute.

I hope my pattern is clear.  If you have any questions, leave a comment below and I’ll get back to you.

I would love to see what yours look like! Leave a link in the comments below or tag me on Twitter or Instagram and use the #DelinleaDIY.

Have fun making Minnie! Good luck~

Love
Danielle

 

 

Posted in: Christmas, Christmas Countdown 2017, Contest, Crafting, Tsum Tsum Tagged: Amigurumi, Christmas, Christmas Countdown, Disney, DIY, Minnie mouse, Tsum Tsum
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