Coding Cartoons & Animation

I love cartoons. I love adult cartoons, old 90’s cartoons, weird cartoons, grotesque cartoons, etc. My dream career for years was to be a cartoonist. I was so obsessed with the idea that I even emailed the main cartoonist for the Boston Globe, when I lived in Boston, to ask him if I could shadow him working for a couple of days. He gave me a very polite “no” because he didn’t think his day-to-day would be that appealing to 23 year old me. For these past couple of weeks I have decided to use Processing to code some cartoons and animation.

The following are some things I have created by following tutorials and teaching myself more Processing:

I started with some simple, stoic doodles.

Then, I began moving onto animations with shapes.

These rectangles are randomized and change color and size every time the program is run

Bouncing balls are sort of a “step one” for cartooning

These are working with the randomization of shapes and lines.

Then, I found how to code interactive programs! Some of them require you to “click” the cursor, but others just follow it.

These two drawings require you to click on the cursor to interact

This is programmed to follow the cursor without having to “click”

I am going to take some drawings of characters that I have created to find out how to make them with as much complexity as Processing will allow! I am excited to continue exploring the possibilities with Processing and other Programming software.