Carrying from Week 9’s secondary action, this week, I was provided a exercise to complete in class. Due I losing my file to my flour sack so I took the provided one to add hair for a secondary action. To give myself something more interesting. I wanted to give it some simple braids. I was planning to sketch out the hair for this and then fixing up the line art but since my sketches are usually clean, I just went to outlining.
After cleaning up some lines, I realise there was some problems with the hair and my out line. My outline is pretty thin compare to the flour sack and that some frames needed to have the hair more exaggerated with the pull effect but overall it was a pretty good first attempt on this.
After the line work, I went in with to apply some colours. With playing around in this program, I was able to unpin the unwanted layers in the animation timeline giving me less to work around and making it easier for me to not use the wrong players. Before finding this feature I would just merge all the line art into one layer so this would be helpful for future porjects.
This is what the end result looks like, I didn’t bother shading anything apart from adding some light airbrushing to the colour.
I was originally planning to bring this into adobe after effects to mess around with the background but since adobe is only accessible through the school connection, this is where it ends for this flour sack.
We also have looked into some animal animation in which where we look at references from other animation artist on their take of the anatomy and movement of limbs, personally I’m not very good with animal anatomy either but usually when drawing them I like to use other artist’s and photos of animals to draw in my style. I have spent some time just looking at some videos about different animals animation:
And here’s a blog like post explaining the steps of animating animals or general walk cycles:
