(Sketching key frames 1-22) I started sketching my key frames just to have an idea of what I was thinking.. By the way It's not a literal interpretation of the poem..
(Yes.. That was the first attempt for the first idea...)
I did change it a lot and add lots more frames and that is the result.
As you can see I tried to play with the timing to give a more realistic feeling to the animation and worked... (yeeey..) now that I got the idea right and have the key frames for that I just need to add more "in between" frames to it.
And that is the result:
132 frames in total. Next step is colouring but not all the animation, i want to make it in grey tone and make the cups blue.
In my case I drew a woman holding a book 15 times. But for each draw I took one step aside.
So, I drew everything that was on my vision camp than took a step aside. Repeating this for 15 times doing a circle around the person drawn.
That way you set up your key-frames.
Key-Frame 1
At this point that is no need to have a "PERFECT drawing" and doesn't meter what you drew as long as you can transmit movement through theses drawings.
The surroundings are just as important as the person drawn due to the movement they transmit.
After you draw all your key-frames and photograph (or scam) them you will have something like this (gif like)
15 Key-Frames
You see that the movement have been shown that is what is important. Just don't worry about the quality of the drawing, you will probably not like it as I didn't mine but normal and again don't worry just finish. FINISHED NOT PERFECT - (Jake Parker)
In Between Frames
Now that you have your Key-Frames you will need the "in between" frames to complete the movement. Remember that as much drawing in between the key-frames more smooth and gracious will be the movement.
In that case I did just 2 frames in between each frame (just 2 frames will not give you the prefect, smooth movement but will be sufficient).
As you can see in this video we have 15 key frames plus one more frame in between. Its smoother but can be better so lets see with two in between frames.
This now is the final sketch with two frames in between each key frame. You can see now that is far smoother than the first one.
So in total, this 4 seconds animation, took me 43 drawings this is average 10 drawings per second, (For a professional high quality animation is needed usually 24 -30 drawings per second) which isn't bad for an exercise and you can always improve it making it clear or simply making more in between frames for your animation. So keep practising and keep sharp..
