So, this is the halfway point for our independent project. Am I a little worried?, yes. Although I’ll still finish it all time. It took a bit of time to learn the program and the pacing, so I am behind schedule, but I've gotten going and am going to produce a lot faster in the next few weeks.
(Not) surprisingly, animating stick figures is quite simple and easy. For me, the hardest part is finding the right reference. Because I am not animating everything from my head, I need some basic movement reference in the form of pictures or preferably videos. To find the perfect reference is often a challenge although I usually end up finding one that is satisfactory. I have created the first few parts in the storyboard and have done the inbetweens for them. This has created very smooth animation for the one part but I am far from done. Going forward, I am going to finish the keyframes for the entire sequence and then do the in betweens after. That way I will have a more finished product done even if I run out of time. The only other difficulty that I am coming across is inking problems. As you can see in the images below, some stickfigure frames are drawn alright but have ink quality problems. (The lines are very shaky and jagged, not very smooth or “confident”,) And this is showing me that it may take longer to draw each frame than initially planned. Although, as the project progresses I get better and better at making smooth confident strokes. In conclusion I am behind during this halfway point of the project. Although, I am planning to spend more hours a day working on it, and put more focus and effort into it for the upcoming weeks.
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AuthorTyler Vincent is a mainly visual artist that does character and story illustrations, as well as experiments with Landscape and portrait painting. Archives
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