Cell Animation

The cell animation has been done now, and here are the developments and outcome!


Firstly, here are a few of the character developments i did. Really basic shapes and lines were necessary for this, as it was just for the tutorial i after effects i attended.

See someone familiar here?

I decided from these quick sketches to choose the simple ball character in the top right, as he was easy and simple to draw for this tester animation.
After choosing this, i developed him a little, as seen here:

After this, i teamed up with Jeffrey Lee (who's blog link can be accessed on the right!) to create a short flip-book animation with a combination of mine and his character.
Below i created 3 keyframes for the animation we decided to do;

Yes, my character did just bite the bum of Jeff's broccoli woman. Cheeky!
To create this animation we had to draw 36 cells, moving the characters ever so slightly each time. This should last for about 2 seconds in real time, which shows how much work is needed for longer animations!
After this was drawn out, it was put into after effects to create the movement in real time. And here it is: