Wild horses couldn’t drag anyone away from NYC, but they can add beautiful color to the bright lights of Times Square. Congratulations to the final Get With the Times! weekly winner, CreativeGenius‘ NY City Horses.

Abstract animation created specially for the MyToons competition. I have been working on and off on this since June. I would like to think that this animation celebrates the beauty of the city. I will soon be uploading higher res versions on my blog: www.sundeeptoor.blogspot.com. Enjoy.

Great job to all who entered the contest, and a huge thanks to everyone who voted for their favorites! The Get with the Times! Grand Prize Winner will be announced September 12, so stay tooned to see which animation will be gracing the big screen in Times Square!

Sundeep knew at a young age that she wanted a creative career and decided to study animation because it posed new challenges, such as considering the movement of a drawing or puppet. Recently graduated from Teesside University with a 2D Computer Animation degree, Sundeep is on the job hunt as a 2D Animator and working on illustrations for his portfolio.

The idea of NY City Horses stemmed from a quick rotoscoping project Sundeep had done as an opportunity to learn Mirage 1.5. She liked the effect of the stylized horses in psychedelic colors and wanted to develop her work into a longer, more purposeful animation. It was then she found out about Get with the Times! and tailored her animation for the contest.

She began by building a rough model horse and animated simple run cycles, and exported it so she could bring in another five horses. The process was time consuming: the timing of the horses were set differently from each other for a more realistic feel; cameras were animated and the footage rendered as jpegs; then the jpegs brought into Mirage to rotoscoping, to give them the textured, psychedelic look originally created.
“It was painstakingly tedious, drawing and texturing each horse in every frame, but the overall look is effective. Its amazing that I managed to complete it in time for the competition!”

Sundeep had created in HD previously, “It is good at making animation projects look epic – it really suited the NY City Horses project.”

Tags: animation contest, free animation software, hd animation

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