Doing this has made me realise two things: one, that I am an illustrator, not an animator – and two, when I animate, I can make it look pretty bloody good.
Other things I’ve done is import that big pavilion background into the working file (with the four crops), and put these frames (but transparent) over the first shot.
Watching Tom moving over the pavilion background has revived me. I was filled with ennui until I saw him in his natural habitat. Now I get the sense that I might be making something very cool indeed.
Critique notes: the back of the chair and back of the waist fluctuates a little more than I’d liked. This is a learning curve, though, and it could be argued that it emphasises the hand-drawn nature of it and brings out the frame by frame element of it. This works considering the theme is all about animation, so a a few metaphorical obvious brushstrokes are far from undesirable.
I am really enjoying the marmalade I drew on. The scribbled texture changes with each frame, and gives it this real visual interest and life. It also means I can hugely emphasise the movement of the sandwich, which will come in useful in the next two shots.
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