This weeks exercise we were to practise an secondary action, which means adding an action that supports the main act. This typically adds customization to a primary animation to fit a emotion, posture, character etc. I watched the video shown below that demonstrates a multitude of secondary actions and the importantance on why they’re included.

Class exercise was to five the sack hair and animate this to fit it’s movement. I was able to draw in hair frames but I wasn’t sure how to colour the drawing. I had to mess around with the tool settings for a bit to understand the issue and after a while I was able to complete the flow sack jump.

I didn’t have a trial for Adobe After Effects and wasn’t entirely confident in using the software, I looked up brief tutorials to get an idea on what can be done to enhance a basic animation to get a fist for it’s features, however that’s the extend of what I could do.

In it’s place I wasn’t to attempt to do a secondary action to my own flour sack animation and, instead of hair, decided to attempt a flower. I had the idea that it could be a sack of seeds and a flower starting spouting from inside. I also added colour as a way to compare my animation to the one done in Krita.

Originally the bucket filling tool was leaving white patches, which made me frustrated with the software but once fixed the colour process was a lot more faster. I’m familiar with Procreate as a program however it’s primarily a drawing program with a limited amount of frames you can work with. I also found Krita forces me to use cleaner lines which helps with the continuity of the animation. If I were to use procreate my line width would change every other frame which is something that I would most likely would want to avoid.