Jump to content
Banner by ~ Ice Princess Silky

Kevin Tang

User
 View Profile  See their content

  • Posts

    923

  • Joined

  • Last visited

 Content Type 

Posts posted by Kevin Tang

    Short Greeting Animation

    in Video Fan Art

    · Edited by Kevin Tang

    I wanted to see my puppet in full color, so I made this animation of Paradox saying hello and waving to you. :fluttershy:

    I chose him as the character because I could reuse the mane from that last vector drawing with ponies and guns. So...you know, it wouldnt take me really long. :please: Although in reality, it's just going to take a similar amount of time to do it with another character.

    I finished it in several hours(probably around 4 hours), which includes setting up the puppet, asset creation(glasses, tail, scarf, limbs, etc), and the main animation itself :muffins: Yep, all that for this 24 FPS 72 frames animation

    Got any questions about this animation? Feel free to ask down below! :derp:

    • Brohoof 2

    Is There Any Chinese?

    in Welcome Plaza

    16 hours ago, Govorov said:

    Well, actually I have a preference for images, or geometry.I'd like to learn math and science in a visual way. Calculating and algebra often bother me a lot.The beauty of math and science is the beauty of logic, symmetry and unify. Numbers are just an object to study.(Plus, technically Statistics as a subject is an independent one,it does have a link with math,or to be more exact,employs it as a tool, but doesn't belong to it.)

    I personally find most science and maths stuff interesting, and I agree that learning by visuals is even more exciting than just plain black and white texts.

    Like in physics for example, I'm really fond of drawing graphs and making illustrations, :kirin: after that comes the actual problem solving part involving the graph and illustrations I made, which is mostly just as fun. But you know....I'm just a high school student, so my knowledge in that field is definitely pretty basic :adorkable:

    In maths, especially when I learned about 3D shapes, you know....those things where you need to find the angle or lenght between this and that. Pretty fun.....when I actually understand what I'm doing. :pistachio:

    I'm planning to dig more into statistics once I'm done with all of the final year things. :fluttershy:

    • Brohoof 1

    Where are the Windigos? Ponies seem to now hate each other...

    in MLP Generation 5 (G5)

    So, the Mane 6 found a way to get rid of them at some time :Pharynx:

    Everyone starts hating on each other and being racist because there is no more consequence for it :derp:

    Coupled with the arrival of modern day technologies like the pony internet, no wonder why harmorny started falling apart :muffins:

    I bet they have their own pony twitter :mlp_smug:

    ....

    Im not trying to formulate any worthwhile headcannon :lie: 

    • Brohoof 2

    Is There Any Chinese?

    in Welcome Plaza

    If you count chinese as a race, and not a nationality, then I'm technically one ^_^

    What kinds of science and math topics are you talking about? Seems quite unusual for someone to say them as a hobby (not in a bad way) :nom:

    You seem to like statistics a lot with all those numbers and data, is that like your defining character trait? :ooh:

    Anyways, welcome to the forum! I remember being greeted by another Chinese user when I first landed here. ^_^ Enjoy your stay!

    Additional note : your English is far from poor, as I dont really find any errors worth mentioning.

    • Brohoof 1

    Lipsync test

    in Visual Fan Art

    22 hours ago, Splashee said:

    "You can call me default pone", with the tongue, what a lovely character! :eager:

    To be fair, he was just a placeholder character, but I guess I'm turning him into an actual somepony

    • Brohoof 1

    Lipsync test

    in Visual Fan Art

    · Edited by Kevin Tang

    First time working with an actual audio

    I experimented with some facial movements supposedly to make things look smoother and more alive

    Still a bit rough here and there, but....eh...whatever

    Here it is

    Tell me what you think!

    • Brohoof 2

    Some vector arts and animation tests

    in Visual Fan Art

    1. "Horror movie poster"

    Spoiler

    So I got an art assigment last year in October. I was prompted to make a horror movie poster.

    I cant use photoshop to create those normie looking posters, so I brainstormed. What would be a good way to implement ponies but with horror elements....hmmm....the answer was there, we got an episode which is basically a parody of an actual horror movie. Thus, this poster was born.

    1605708989046.thumb.png.f40c5aa809405b50a76a56bb7b9e0d5a.png

    2. SCP themed vector art (Project 16)

    Spoiler

    So I had the urge to draw ponies with firearms again and I was really into SCP games and SCP in general, so I made this 4 character vector.

    I'd I'm pretty happy about the improvements from my previous attempts

    This includes, better body armor vector and better details in guns

    I mean just look at this

    unknown-28.png.cad5182e7818b964b6581f1e68f71d2b.png

    and compare it to this

    1579281020180.thumb.png.3cdc8486c618ae43c367df10afe30385.png

    How can you not say it's an improvement?

    Anyways, here is the actual art

    1610975302392.thumb.png.82b6eb72e4a63937fb6374e9ce4ed534.png

    Idk, but I always get carried away into making speech bubbles for characters in a vector.

    The kirin is a part of the GOC and the rest are MTF unit Epsilon 11 designated "Nine Tailed Pones"

    They even have their own modified logo!

    unknown-19.png.8bc66358c8aab7c93f527647884bc316.png

    I didnt stop right there

    Since I dont like the fact that theyre all wearing helmets which makes their manes invisible.

    I decided to make some helmet-less art of them

    2 for my friends

    Project-16-Yud.thumb.png.47028a1c8522d1b421773f170ae6d076.png

    Project-16-Jhayarr.thumb.png.3c6a14534c291b27f3e7fa19509b4477.png

    And 1 as a raffle prize(held on Twitter)

    1611846139216.thumb.png.3ec97004439a421de05377a8ab94d8b0.png

    3 main poses and a total of 5 guns made

    This project sure did involve a lot of work

    Last but not least, we come to

    3. Animation puppets and tests

    Spoiler

    Overall, I'm doing pretty well. I made quite a lot of progress, even though its still just...you know...the head....

    Animation takes a lot of time, especially those damn muzzle expressions. I got bored doing those midway, which is why I started project 16, as a refreshment.

    But in the end, its all worth it Id say.

    The muzzle expressions are mostly done for the main angles. The basic form of the eyes are done. I'm currently working on the ears.

    I really like how smooth the ear rotation turned out to be

    Without further ado

    Here is expression test 2

    And test 3

    Finally we have the ear test

    ezgif.com-gif-maker.gif.408c1cf1fd5ab37e229353455bebabed.gif

    Still lots of things to be made, but we're slowly getting there

    Alright, that wraps up this art thread.

    Got anything to say? Post them down below, be it questions, critiques, or whatever.

    If you want to see more frequent updates, you can check my twitter or just visit the poniverse discord server in the user art section. I prefer posting there due to them being....more convenient

    Thanks for reading!

    • Brohoof 11

    Kevin's Work In Progress thread

    in Visual Fan Art

    A part of a side project I'm working on

    1610380985788.thumb.png.e3274b82dfc6bfccf8bf8fb226d372f1.png

    For some of you who still remember, yes, I made another pony holding a gun

    Manehattan Kirins 3 is probably cancelled and I'm currently improving the animation puppet

    Probably going to redo the whole thing when the time comes

    We'll see

    • Brohoof 1

    Do you know ROBLOX?

    in Media Discussion

    5 hours ago, EpicEnergy said:

    I've played Roblox a few times before, and it's not really a fun game in my opinion.

    If you have a real computer that can run real games, then yeah, Roblox is not really that fun

    I just now realized that its a substitute for the potato and F2P PC users

    • Brohoof 1

    Kevin's Work In Progress thread

    in Visual Fan Art

    1 hour ago, Splashee said:

    Yay head turn! Looking good! :yay:

     

    What are these videos for?

    These are just WIPs of Project 15 or Manehattan Kirins part 3

     

    Basically to show what to expect from the final product and to convey the idea of what I've learnt so far in animating ponies

    • Brohoof 1

    Do you judge people by their avatar?

    in General Discussion

    Same goes as in real life, the appearance of a person kinda influences the first impression of said person

    On the internet, that profile picture is your face.

    For me personally, I sometimes make some basic assumptions on the person based on their avatars, like what possible fandom they're in, what their interests are.

    Of course, it is not the most determining factor when judging a person, you wont be able to know one's full personality and story from a simple picture which is their pfp.

    In conclusion, profile pictures or avatars act the same as your face in real life. They give someone a first impression about yourself before interacting further with you. But of course, the wise saying of not judging a book from its cover still applies when interacting with people on the internet.

    • Brohoof 3
×
×
  • Create New...