How is the Homestar Universe Animated?

Tintin · **Posted:** Wed May 11, 2005 7:33 am

I know the Brothers Chap use Flash but I was wondering if anyone knew if they used a graphics tablet and and the pen or pen tool to create their characters, backgrounds, props etc or whether they use the shape tools and use the mouse to position them to the shape they wanted. I'm asking this since the animation outlines are very clean and not at all like those produced using a graphics tablet in Flash. I don't suppose they use a Graphire tablet, probably an Intuos one.

Any help?
Thanks!

Melonade Man · **Posted:** Wed May 11, 2005 11:34 am

No, they just make their characters on the computer. They look so good because TBC have made flash movies for years.

Joshua · **Posted:** Wed May 11, 2005 11:35 am

TBC are just good artists, that's all.

FireBird · **Joined:** Mon Jan 10, 2005 2:58 am **Posts:** 1819

Melonade Man wrote:

No, they just make their characters on the computer.

Nah! Really? :rolleyes:

Clockwork · **Joined:** Wed May 11, 2005 1:45 pm **Posts:** 1

From what I can tell, TBC outline their characters with the line tool, fill it in, and then delete the lines. All the colors, shading, and most lines in HSR are made in the same way. At least, that makes the most sense. If they don't do that... then I'm stumped.

Dark Grapefruit · **Posted:** Wed May 11, 2005 3:05 pm

Why don't you email them about it? They're usually pretty quick to respond.

Princess of StrongBadia · **Posted:** Wed May 11, 2005 7:12 pm

Dark Grapefruit wrote:

Why don't you email them about it? They're usually pretty quick to respond.

They took about two weeks to respond to my email about HR vs. Little Girl Part 1.

FireBird · **Joined:** Mon Jan 10, 2005 2:58 am **Posts:** 1819

Princess of StrongBadia wrote:

Dark Grapefruit wrote:

Why don't you email them about it? They're usually pretty quick to respond.

They took about two weeks to respond to my email about HR vs. Little Girl Part 1.

Maybe they were working on a toon or something. They're busy guys.

damik · **Joined:** Tue Mar 08, 2005 8:24 pm **Posts:** 580

I imagine they just use the smoothed pencil tool, convert to fills then tweak the images a bit. And then convert each little bit of character to a symbol and have a few seperate mouths and stuff for lipsyncing.

Dark Grapefruit · **Posted:** Thu May 12, 2005 2:42 pm

CaptPrincessofStrongBadia wrote:

Dark Grapefruit wrote:

Why don't you email them about it? They're usually pretty quick to respond.

They took about two weeks to respond to my email about HR vs. Little Girl Part 1.

That's not too bad. At least they actually take the time to read their emails.

ramrod · **Posted:** Thu May 12, 2005 7:19 pm

Dark Grape-Nuts Robot wrote:

CaptPrincessofStrongBadia wrote:

Dark Grapefruit wrote:

Why don't you email them about it? They're usually pretty quick to respond.

They took about two weeks to respond to my email about HR vs. Little Girl Part 1.

That's not too bad. At least they actually take the time to read their emails.

I e-mailed them a few things, and they never responded, and it was like over a month ago.

Power Crunch · **Posted:** Thu May 12, 2005 9:43 pm

they've never responded to anything i've asked... ever.

Princess of StrongBadia · **Posted:** Thu May 12, 2005 9:46 pm

Power Crunch wrote:

they've never responded to anything i've asked... ever.

Well, I think the reason they answered mine was because I didn't even know about Little Girl Part 1. I mean, I wouldn't want fans missing out on a skit I made just because they're too dumb to find the Easter Egg either. :-S

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