Effects Tests

I was just fooling around with some lighting effects today. It wasnt really for anything, just for fun. Im trying to get it to look something like this:

I think I did ok. Watch the effect loop here: http://www.swfcabin.com/open/1274002126
and here: http://www.swfcabin.com/open/1274014666

Thief: Rent's Due on NEWGROUNDS.COM

Hey everyone. I just uploaded my epic 10 minute animation to newgrounds. Please head over there and vote 5!
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/536017

Blasting Into Action!

Progress on my stickpage.com tournament entry is going swimmingly. I am currently animating what I reckon is the best scene in the whole animation. I had to cut down on quality a ton because of lag issues :(

The Fight Begins

I have finally started animating the begining of the fighting and also the Heros epic entrance:

Pen + Tablet

Today I bought a Wacom Pen and Tablet for $90. A tablet like this would usually cost upwards of $250 but it said the box was damaged and the tablet was fine so they put it down to $90. I dont know how good it will be or how good I'll be with it but if I devote a lot of my time to animating I might aswell give it a try.

This is the exact tablet I bought. I have no idea what the thing above it is though :\

Zap!

Ive been working hard on my competition entry and have been updating my graphics to a better standard then what they were. Although I have only done 10 seconds of animation I have been working on backgrounds and other fancy looking things for the rest of the animation. Here is a screenshot of a test of a scene that I have yet to animate:

First Shot of Competition Entry

I just completed the frist shot of my entry into the stickpage.com tournament. The theme is an alien invasion so I though a bit of an independence day rip off was in order :P