I animated the Ultimate Showdown when I was 14!

I animated the ultimate showdown when I was 14 years old.

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I animated the Ultimate Showdown when I was 14!

Posted by altffour - April 9th, 2022

I animated most of it when I was 14, but it came out when I had just turned 15.

I know there's lots of young people on this site. Young people usually aren't treated as seriously as they deserve.

If you're a young person, and you want to animate, there's lots of resources online for tutorials on YouTube on how to use Adobe Animate. You can get a free trial, or, if you're serious, a student subscription is $20/year. It took me about a month to make the Ultimate Showdown, but I had been practicing for a bit over a year at that point. I used a mouse to draw the Ultimate Showdown, but since then I've switched to tablets. You can get a budget wacom tablet for around $100~ USD.

There's also a free and open source programs called "Pencil2D" and "OpenToonz" which might be good to practice in. If you have an iPad, there are affordable options in the app store, and the iPad works as a tablet. (Edit: Someone in the comments said Pencil2D isn’t good. Just a warning!)

If you're serious about animation, and want a book that covers animation theory, the best I've read is "The Animator's Survival Kit" by Richard Williams. Here's a PDF.

I just wanted to put this out there, because I think young people are under-appreciated and don't get the support they need. Looking back on myself, it's sad I didn't get more support at that young age. If you're a pretty good artist and you learn to animate now, you'll probably have those skills for life (and the same applies for anything you're passionate about- music, art, writing, you name it.) There's lots of things trying to get our attention, between video games, TV, and all the rest. But nothing has been so rewarding over my life as building the skills that bring drawings to life.

It's worth it to put the time in.

I believe in you,

Shawn

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jomarcenter-mjm 2022-04-09 03:34:37

You pretty popular with even some group of artist make a remake of your animation. Congrats to be a part of internet history.

altffour 2022-04-09 03:34:37

The remake was great. I was proud to see the influences they took. Much better animators than me!

Positron832 2022-04-09 03:35:34

omg its the person who animted the most famsoue anminatoin of ever omgggmg

And with that said, I think the same applies to games, art, and music, and everything :P

altffour 2022-04-09 03:35:34

Definitely. People who are in their teenage years have incredible potential to pick up any number of skills, if they devote themselves to it. Now there are a lot more resources than 2005, but also more distractions. So that's the trade-off. Powerful people make a lot of money by distracting us. Back in 2005 it wasn't as bad.

ScottishRam 2022-04-09 03:43:34

Inspiring, very inspiring. You are a good person, my guy. Keep bein' that way!

Ickicky 2022-04-09 04:57:37

Now if those young people and old people actually read the book maybe we'll get somewhere with animation :y

Very cool to see you still kickin it!

Vidyabatter 2022-04-09 05:01:02

GODSPEED.

s-zenmode 2022-04-09 05:06:44

you are literally an internet hero

DOugdimmadab1337 2022-04-09 05:20:07

I'm glad you bring this up, us disgusting Zoomers are already not off to a great start, it's good to know that at least Animators believe in us. Passing knowledge along is really the best you can do. some people don't know where to start. Some of us at least appreciate it

Wandaboy 2022-04-09 05:25:58

i love your cartoon ive watched it a billion times growing up, stay awesome <3

Snackers 2022-04-09 05:40:59

KING

SkyFire2008 2022-04-09 06:16:19

Sooo... what've you been up to since then? Are you still animating? You haven't uploaded anything in 5 years.

altffour 2022-04-09 06:16:19

I have a five part series coming out on Means TV this summer. I’ll post about it when it comes out.

vurb 2022-04-09 07:31:38

you animated ballsack

Octo 2022-04-09 12:19:07

lmao don't tell kids to use Pencil2D you dipshit. Pencil2D is self-sabotage.

Octo 2022-04-09 12:23:31

@Positron832 @altffour More distractions is right. *puts head in hands*.

It really takes every ounce of strength to actually work on things instead of just browsing the net. Sometimes I really hate the internet. It makes it so hard to actually get work done. I think the net should just nuke all/most entertainment and social media sites lmao.

EinMeister 2022-04-09 14:47:31

I was 2 years old when you published the showdown.

HenryEYES 2022-04-09 17:20:08

I totally agree, even if you aren't young, it is still worth it to learn new things and treat life like you never left school!

man a few years back I looked into where you went, and your podcast, so it blows my mind that u came back here for another round of crazy!

Ethroptur 2022-06-19 12:24:51

Ultimate Showdown was one of the seminal internet memes for me. The fact that it's almost 20 years old gives me back pain. Thanks for your not-so-small contirbution to early internet meme culture.

shrtslve 2022-09-02 12:11:04

@DOugdimmadab1337: Eh, your generation doesn't seem any worse off than us millennials. In fact, I see even more potential there than we had. We're all gonna make it :)

I animated the Ultimate Showdown when I was 14!

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