Tag: loki animation

willow-s-linda:

I really loved Thor Ragnarok and I’m not tired of drawing fan stuff yet so I chose Loki for today’s animation practice. I actually wanted to animate Thor doing something stupid as a counterpart but ran out of time; maybe later 😀 

A thing I’ve noticed that might be helpful for some other people who animate:

What I’ve learned in the last couple of weeks is that it’s really important to spend time around the storytelling drawings. Meaning when planning it’s important to know that you should spend a couple of frames very close to them in order to make them noticeable. I used to think that moving holds are somehow “lazy” and that you’d always have to have some body part following through while hitting an important pose in order to make it look natural, but I was wrong. My animations have improved a huge deal since I’ve started not doing crazy hand movements etc while hitting an important pose. You can do all of that with the frames that go from one storytelling part to the next. Not saying you should ALWAYS avoid big overlapping actions while having important poses, but I’ve just realized that it OFTEN works better when you’re hitting the pose hard and keep the big overlapping stuff for the breakdowns. Hope this helps someone out there(and also that I’m making sense), just bear in mind I’m just learning and everyone has to see what works best for them and the specific action. Just felt like sharing some of the thought process with you, someone might have the same struggles.