so if you were kicking around doing stuff in flipnote studio on the dsi, you may be familiar with a bunch of the quirks that animating on that had. there were only 2 layers, only 4 colors (white, black, red, blue) but could only use 3 at a time, but theres a bunch of other quirks in there
FOR EXAMPLE, you may know that the go-to "speed" for flipnotes was 6. thats right. speed. the framerate of teh animations were arbitrary speed values, and we all used speed 6 cause that was the easiest to animate without spending too fucking long drawing frames. i've seen ppl use speed 5 to animate stuff but it was pretty much all speed 6. only ppl doing crack used 7 or 8.
now the thing is, speed 6 was 12 FPS!!!!! WE ALL ANIMATED AT 12FPS!!! IT SURE AS HELL DIDNT FEEL LIKE THAT!!! and no WONDER we animated at 12fps because speed 7 and 8 were 20fps and 30fps respectively. i dont think any of us idiots were smart enough to know the concept of "animating on 2s or 3s" where you only animate every 2 frames or 3 frames for slower smaller movements. this saves a lot of time when animating, and as you may know, animating fucking suuuuuuuuuucks. its a very noticeable quirk without you even KNOWING thats whats happening! those choppy frames makes animations feel authentic!
BUT WE DIDNT KNOW THAT! we all animated at speed 6 and drew every single frame in the animation bc we thought thats what you had to do. like i said i have seen ppl animate at speed 5, and that shit is 6fps apparently, so it was understandably less good feeling than speed 6.
now i think aimkid animated at 12fps at some point, which some people may be confised about, but i know aimkid uses flipnote. they have posted some funny little flipnores on thei twitter before. that random one where a guy got sucked into a tornado? PROBABLY A FLIPNOTE. this means aimkid is familiar with the workflow of how to make a flipnote.
now why does aimkid use a ps3 controller? well flipnotes could only flip the page back and forth with the dpad on the dsi. since i was talking about this framerate shit with my friends i was thinking abt how i wanted to set up a lil animation workflow for myself bc i wanted to do a 6fps animation. i need to get my shitty drawing tablet out, and i also had the idea to use my ps4 controller to flip the pages with the dpadHEY WAIT AIMKID DOES THAT
had to compose this into a coherent thought bc i like flipnote studio and wanted to share some of these quirks to the people and i also think aimkid is super awesome :P
