Last month we did a mini animation so I could give a try at how to do a few animation tasks with my art software without looking for tutorials on it... You know, having a little fun with exploration and discovery on my own.

Took me a few days, but with this few seconds of animation I figured out how to pan, rotate and zoom the camera, scroll the two layers of clouds, animate different layers as a group and more.

In the past I've done a few animated things, but they were so basic that I can't really count them as actually doing animation... You know, just a wink or one layer being moved around. The closest to animation I did was Krystalwolf swinging hips to Psy's "Gentlemen", but is very rough. This one has a lot more going on, instead.

The arms are the only static image here. Everything else has several frames, where the parts that are tighter to the body barely move, but the looser fabric, hair and tail flop more violently.

It was a nice test. With what I learned here I could try to make something cooler sometime, with more scenes... It would be a fun challenge, but a ton of work for each little second of animation.

This helps me understand why most Youtube animators and such default to very simplistic designs barely more complex than stick figures, and reuse a stock of mouth loops for lipsync, focusing more on telling interesting stories than mindblowing animation... This shit is a LOT of work, specially for a solo artist.

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