[PRACTICE] Animation Test #4

I have recently been experimenting with animating paper animation using Adobe flash, one of the experiments was to create the illusion that the character I have drawn on paper being drawn using Flash. To do this, I had to draw the character first on paper, scan it, and import it into Flash. After importing, bit by bit I deleted little sections of the drawing until there was nothing left, I reversed the animation and it gave the illusion that the character was being drawn in Flash. Below is the example:

After creating this animation test, I wanted to animate a hand drawing the picture. To do this, I drew a hand in Flash, creating groups for each individual finger and moved the hand around the image to create the illusion that the hand was drawing the character, below is the example:

I didn’t want to delve too deep into this by having the hand draw the entire character, as I felt that this would be very time consuming for a test animation and if I were to use the footage, would be very long winded and drag out, so I decided to stick with the drawing of the head. I will continue to experiment with paper animation, I am currently in the process of creating my storyboard and I feel that these tests will help me when I begin to create my animatic.