Animatic Vol. 2

 

This version of my animatic has a couple more inbetweens than the first. I don't have much to say in terms of difficulties or technical issues since I've jsut been sticking to frame by frame and it's been working out fine. I'm getting more used to animate over the time I've been using it, althought I still have some questions about the way the tools work sometimes. Why does it change the line colours if I switch layers with certain tools selected? I don't ask it to do that, it'll just randomly force colour changes onto ALL of the lines on a layer to whatever colour I was previously using, and it's made differentiating between the two squirrel's colours a bit of a nightmare at some points. Other than that, though, I've generally just been tweaking and adding in frames. The additional inbetweens has slowed it down too, so it watches a little smoother now. I had a go at slowing it down considerably below by holding my frames for longer, too.

I'm now thinking it's a little too slow in parts. They move almost sluggishly because of it. But it's a much better reference point for how long I want the scenes to be, even if they're still not moving exactly how I want them to. I've been referring to this video for help when necessary, too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49yK2AfG8kc It's generally been a big help in understanding layers, maybe not so much with tweening because I hate using it, but it answered a lot of beginner questions I was having. Also, I really like Ross's animations and have for a long time. Himself and Egoraptor on YouTube are part of the reason I really wanted to learn to animate, I love the dynamics and characters they use and how they apply their styles to movement. They make well-thought out motions look effortless and bouncy and it's a very appealling form of animation to me. A lot of Western stuff now can feel very stiff because of how they make their assets, especially in things like Bojack Horseman, so refreshing, hand drawn motions are more unique and admireable to me.