Animation

After finishing some of the drawing for the Zines I decided this was the perfect time for me to start and practice with animation. So I chose one of the pieces I wanted to slightly animate. So i chose on the images (Below) and began.


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I approached my housemate, who I have collaborated with before as he is an animator and would be a vital asset to making this happen. As there are many ways to animate something we decided for what I wanted to do, the best option was a frame by frame approach. All I wanted to do was make it appear that the monsters hands were dripping.

We began by setting up a light box and then began drawing frames for each 'droplet'

After we had 20 frames of animation, we scanned the separate images into after effects and used the 'JPEG SEQUENCE' function to create the animation for us.

This was the absolute basic of what we needed. I think they turned out quite smooth and functional. From there It was simply a matter of editing the drips and re-sizing onto the desired parts of the animation and after a big of tweaking then importing it as GIF format on photo-shop  It was finished.

On the whole I'm really pleased with this as a first attempt. I'm aware it's only a very simple animation but as a starting point I think its good. I'm going to do a few more like this, with subtle nuances to them then move on if I feel comfortable.

I think it adds another level to the drawing, adds more macabre and menace to it. It brings it too life and I think that's important for my practice to have that.