Author: Елена
Making My Own Parker Pen.
I love stationary. Notebooks, notepads, pens, pencils… I was looking for an idea of a present for myself for New Year (I have a tradition of buying presents for myself). I found a Parker pen left by somebody at work and decided to buy something from that company. They have official...
На нашей улочке
My second cartoon made in Anime Studio Pro. The background is the embroidery kit “Green Village” from the Korean company Dome. For some reason when translated into Russian it turned into “Green Street”. Lots of people have embroidered it. With this kit there was a...
Monumental Embroidery Finished.
Let me give you a brief accoun: four months of work, a lot of contemplation about the colour, first time embroidering silk on silk and the second embroidery in chain stitch. Almost four balls of thread 66 meters each. And a lot of hours spent on this project that this time can be counted. And I...
Hamster
I found the idea with embroidery on toy animals in the Inspirations magasine. They had a swan, a bear and some other animals decorated with embroidered flowers. I didn’t need a second to decide on the animal I was going to make – a hamster! Among Russian crafters hamsters are considered...
A Poppy Casket.
For a long time I had been cross stitching being sure that surface embroidery, including needlepainting is for the select ones. Until one day I came across a needlepainting masterclass by Mary Corbet (please visit her blog – needlenthread.com). That’s where it all started. A...
Contemplations.
When I started this blog I was sure that I would be able to find some material about animation at least once a week. But the summer holidays are over and I went back to working at school, then I also started working at the theatre and it turned out that I’m not ready to give up all my other...
Sherlock.
It’s a highly popular show. I have watched it numerous times with different groups of kids (I teach English). And when it became clear that we would have to wait for the third season for a long time I started a project: drawing various objects from Sherlock in pencil and doing ‘line...
Where Can I Doodle…
multator.ru A wonderful site where you can try your hand at frame-by-frame animation for absolutely no cost. Obviously it doesn’t have the functionality of Flash or Anime Studio, but people manage to create impressive work there. Have a look! http://multator.ru/toon/6iwjy6nenewe –...
Snowy Fairytale.
2danimator.ru forum introduced me to one of the multiple animation programmes on the market - Anime Studio Pro. It is interesting and multifunctional. I'm not using it anymore but all the cartoons that I have made so far are created using Anime Studio Pro. My first creation is...
Two Useful Websites. All Right, Not Two.
Let’s start at the very beginning. When I just started thinking about creatin my own aniations I came across 2danimator.ru. There are a few 3d projects were but, as you can see from the title, the forum is dedicated to 2d animation. Here you will find information on using lots of popular...
