WORKSHOP- CELL ANIMATION

Today we had a narrative cell animation workshop. We were asked to create a very simple character that we would be able to reproduce a number of times. After various attempts at simple pig and cat designs I decided to continue with a little pencil character, which naturally moves like a pencil, drawing as he moves on the tip of its lead. Once we had created a character we had to introduce it to the character of the person sitting next to us ( in this case a shark) and use them both in a 3 second animation created using 12 frames per second so 36 drawings in total. We first had to create a storyboard incorporating a start middle and end. Originally our story was for the pencil to draw the shark and then for the shark to eat the pencil

 but after realising there wasn't really enough time for all of that to happen in 3 seconds we went for a more simple approach which can be seen below.

Even though the animation is a bit bumpy I'm really happy with the overall effect and because of the style of the technique I think the imperfections can sometimes add to the piece rather than take anything away. And the pencil is really happy with himself too.