Siobhan Twomey

Procreate Dreams: como animar um filme

<p>Thank you for this great course! It was nice for a beginner (with regard to animating as well as using Procreate Dreams ) to follow the whole process. Even if this meant using your landscape and heavily relying on tracing for the characters. <br />The skating cycle of the penguin seems to give the right illusion only when seen close-up. From the distance he seems to move only one foot, gliding on the other. Any idea how this could be fixed other than showing the penguin only close-up?</p>

Hi Maria! WOW! this project is awesome !! Not only did you complete the entire animation, but your characters are simply wonderful. I know you needed to trace my character designs, but i think you perfected them in your style! Love that. 

I also note that you added some unique animations onto this project: The scarf on the Polar Bear, and the seal popping up and blinking!! This is so brilliant, and I'm so pleased to see this. 

Overall you've created a wonderful animation, and you've also proven that you are instinctively an animator and a film maker, with a keen sense of how to craft a scene with narrative, and with interest. Well done!! This bodes really well for your future creations.  

To answer your question about the penguin animation, I can say that the issue you are referring to is knows as "Twinning" - and often occurs in 2D animation, in things like walk cycles or run cycles where there is two limbs animated but they sometimes seem like just one is moving. It's a small issue, and certainly in your animation it does not stand out as a huge problem at all, especially if seeing your animation for the first time, one would not even notice it. 

What you could do to fix it, if you are very keen to do so, is try to make each leg slightly different in the key poses. For example, you can "off-set" the left leg and make it in a different position on the key poses, as the right leg. i hope that makes sense. You can let me know if you have any questions.
Personally, I think the cycle is fine as it is. One thing I did notice however is that there is a blank frame within the penguin skate. It flickers slightly at the end of each cycle, so you can easily adjust that by timing the animation within the group. 
Let me know if this all makes sense, but overall this is wonderful!! Well done!

Hi Siobhan,
Thank you for the very detailed and encouraging feedback. I think I understand what you mean by off-set. I actually was wondering why you did not exactly trace poses when you spoke about copying the pose in the video. Now I understand. I will further experiment with the penguin. The flicker is caused by an accidentally ‚switched-off‘ frame.

Ok great, sounds good! Again, I'm really impressed with your project overall, these issues we talk about are really minor. If you are keen to do more, you could check out my other class on Procreate Dreams, it tackles walk cycles and run cycles. Might cover the same ground in terms of basics, but always good to review the fundamentals many times!

Thanks again. I have actually already started with your other Procreate Dreams class. And several of your classes have already caught my interest :)

Hi Siobhan,
Now I have fixed the missing frame of the penguin cycle and some minor issues. However, I decided not to further modify the penguin skating cycle. There is quite some difference between the first and the second step and from close-up it reads quite well. I did not want to exaggerate the differences.
Thank again for your support!

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