June 17th, 2007 by

rach3

I started animating a walk from Richard Williams’ Animator’s Survival Kit, but found myself frozen in terror unable to fill in the inbetweens! So I’ve taken a few steps back (ha ha ha….ha) and decided to muck around with the basic principles a little more. This is the equivalent not of practising scales, but sitting at the piano hitting keys different ways just to see what different sounds you can produce.

So here’s a test of an arm flapping a la the Swan Queen. It’s breathtakingly bad, and I have yet to get the hang of keeping drawings consistent, but it’s a start.