Base Frame Progress

 This week has been extremely productive, despite my slow, gradual progress. My animating process, though unconventional, works wonders for me, and is helping me better experiment with how I should animate each shot. Considering that I have never attempted major, professional animation before this, I do believe that my methodology looks high quality enough for my taste.

My method is simple, yet effective. I mimic that of art mannequins; drawing the body shape vaguely enough to be broken down into simple shapes. This allows me to make the movement of the characters appear more anatomically correct, rather than looking grossly disfigured. I do both the main and the in between frames at once, but I color each sketch of these frames in different colors to help me differentiate between the frames, allowing me to better understand what frame to draw next.

Though this method does seem tedious and difficult, it's what works best; and sometimes, that's all a person needs in order to achieve their goal.