DYNAMIC EXERCISE - FINAL ANIMATION

The Dynamic Exercise is done!

Last time (see this post), I had finished timing the exercise and started working on my inbetweens to make the animation run completely smoothly without any need for held frames or awkward timings.

The inbetweens were definitely the most labour-heavy section of this task. I had more inbetweens to do than keyframes (to be expected), but they took a lot longer than originally anticipated. At times I had to check my sheets of references and timings to make sure I wasn't doing too much, only to find out I had only just hit the halfway mark between to keyframes.

But once the inbetweens were done, I immediately went to linetest. And it came out really well! I tinkered a little bit with some held frames, but it just didn't work. With each frame being hand drawn over and over, it created a, for lack of a better term, sizzle. The lines were a little jaggedy, and it gave off a style I really liked. But when frames were held, it stuck out because the sizzle wasn't there. Because I wanted the animation to look good visually and stay consistent, I opted out of holding frames.

As mentioned in my previous post, I was thinking of changing the framerate from 24fps to 12fps. I did eventually go with that, since 24fps made everything so quick that it was difficult to read what was happening onscreen. But when I changed to 12fps, the animation ran incredibly smooth, and made it more obvious what was going on!

So here's the final animation!

I would change a couple of things for sure, if given the right amount of time. I would clean it up a lot more, going over with an ink pen to bolden the lines. The net also has a little bit of a fluctuation to it, where the right side goes in and out a little bit. It's only really noticeable if you're only focusing on the net, but if my animation was successful, then the net shouldn't be the focus point. But overall, very happy with this animation! It achieved the look and feel I was looking for. It blends my cartoony, more self taught art style with professional taught techniques, and I think they work very well together!