Today I woke up with fear in my heart, but after a morning of work I’m feeling good, loose, happy and I learned a lot!
I learned how to manipulate video in Photoshop and to export as a series of images. This will be hugely useful to me with any frame by frame animation I do.
Below is a video showing the process of getting to a point where I had sketched frames of movement. Now it will be making them look more Tom Kerridgey and less Gemma-y, sorting the lines and costume, cleaning up, colouring – but I’d say the hard work is done! I’m happy with the movement.
Little quirks I like about the animation are the subtle changing-of-hands when the bread is pressed together and ready to throw, evidenced in a frame with outstretched fingers. I also like that the chest follows the motion a bit, so we get a coherent feeling, rather than if I had just guessed the movement and drawn freely.
It’s fun having to document this project and process so closely. Putting my efforts into videos is becoming content in itself, and it really emphasises the fun I’m having as well as the things I’m learning.
SEASIDE ILLUSTRATION 