Overall, there are 37 different traditionally animated shots, each of course are all centered around Max the Cat, the only character in my animation who is animated using a traditional medium. Now with this in mind, I have never animated using a light-box, aside from the odd animation test, so this proved to be a real challenge, taking a total of 7 hours to complete 6 seconds of footage, below you can see the final outcome:
I feel that I could have done this better, however the final shot where he bounces up to me feels very spot on, and exactly what I wanted to achieve. There were many issues when creating this 6 second clip, the main issue was the fact that I had to get used to it not being a computer. The amount of times I made a mistake and I went to press Ctrl + Z were too many to count, not to mention the frustration of not being able to move the head slightly with 2 clicks of a mouse, instead having to draw it out all over again, but with a slight head change.
With all these in mind, it was a nice wake up call in a very strange way, animators including myself, are used to tricks and cheats in order to get what they want. I could have done around 2 shots of the old animator in the time it took me to animate this 6 second clip, however, regardless of how many mistakes there were and how rough it looks, I am still incredibly pleased with the outcome, considering the lack of experience I have had using a light-box. I may attempt to create a traditionally animated shot every week, however this may prove difficult considering how long they take to animate, what is more distressing is the fact that I have only allocated 34 weeks to animate everything, and there are 37 different shots, I may need to think of a plan to animate these scenes, or else I fear it will all come crashing down towards the end.
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