Balto, Fetch! - 2D animation
School Project
Goal: Make a 2 sec animation of your own choise for next day.
First time making a propper 2D animation and what better model and inspiration to use than my own doggo, Balto? I used an older drawing i did of him and animated the little lad.
If I could change anything I would have left out the motion blur and make his backlegs (/paws) better for animation.
Made with Photoshop & After effect
I animated in total of 8 different cycles, 2 of them I scrapped and started over as they did not work at all for my vision.
I learned that I work super well with dividing all the different animations into different compositions and collect it once they are done. It gives me a much better overview as I get overwhelmed easy by too many layers while I'm learning new programs.
All the animations are made by duplicating the walking animation and tweaking here and there for the desired look.
I learned now that it's better just to start over when going from walking to running. The process was somehow more tedious and the result not too good either, so I would do that differently next time.
Here you can see all the chosen animations that I collected in the end for the final animation
Once all animations had been collected, I did small tweaking as a very subtle squeeze/stretch as she starts running and making her body jump a little more during the running animation.