New Beginnings
Everyone starts something because it’s what they want to do. But most people only want to do it because they saw someone they wish to become. Maybe not become but along the lines of you have a hero. Someone to look up to, or admire and base a lot of your work off of. A lot of people say their parents are their hero and you can see a lot of sons and daughters becoming or acting like their parents. In the same way, a career is like that. If you’re father is a mechanic, then it’s possible you start working on cars growing up to where it becomes a career. Art and animation has a lot of talented people. For decades we enjoy cartoons and art alike all thanks to someone’s passion for art and animation. The point is, most of us have a hero.
My Hero
My hero is an artist under the name Ed Tadeo. Ed Tadeo is a professional comic book artist. He’s worked for many companies such as Image Comics, Dynamite Entertainment, and Marvel Comics. His main job is to ink comics and sketches for the comics but he’s much more talented than that. He’s been coloring and inking comics for over 20 years now. He has been behind many big time comics such as, Wolverine, X-Men, Unc. X-Men, New Mutants, X-Force, Iceman, Deadpool & Cable, and other X-Books. For colors, Silver Surfer, Wolverine, Captain America, Iron Man, and High Roads.
Youtube
He is also a small time animator making small to large animations and posting them on YouTube. I discovered Ed, while looking up cheap and easy animation or art software. The free and very large software I found was Kritra. It has many Adobe like objects in it so it’s very good for making art and animation. Upon looking up videos for art I came across a bunch of animation from Ed Tadeo. Amazed and admiring his work I started my own animations. Before Krira I was using poor and bad software that were limited in what you could do so I wasn’t big on animation until I found Krita. There are much better software’s than Krita but being twelve I didn’t have a job so I was limited on money so I never wasted time trying to buy good software, I only looked for free ones.
Thank You
Seeing someone as professional as Ed Tadeo using free software gave me hope. I started animating and fell in love with it. I love the way Ed makes his animations and I know how he does as he has posted multiple videos on his channel of a sped up process of him making short animations. Using his techniques and methods I was able to make my animations. I would like to say my art is as good as his comic style art but everyone has their own style and ways. And you know what they say you are your own worst critic. After years of animating I still to this day admire his art and animation and still watch his videos, wondering if I could create something like that. I thank Ed, as he has helped me realize you don’t need fancy, expensive software to make good animation, you just need patients, and time. He’s helped me get through animaring, even if he doesn’t realize he has.