This summer, I’ve been been exploring animation techniques, and this is my latest experiment — loosely inspired by a Push Button Head cartoon I published a couple years ago called “Slip and Slide.”
Frame-by-frame animation is surprisingly tedious. Adding another dimension (time) to a visual, well…, takes a lot of extra time to complete!
But the imperfections give everything a handmade quality, even when done digitally. To give you an idea of the scale, below are all of the keyframes from my 4 second loop, coloured and superimposed on a single layer. It reminds me of a Marcel Duchamp painting.
In Other News
Last Sunday, I joined an online workshop lead by New Yorker cartoonist Liana Finck. The livestream was surprisingly interactive and we were encouraged to sketch and develop our ideas in real-time while sharing our progress with participants. I welcomed the time constraint of trying to turn over a comic quickly. It was a refreshing challenge. Here’s my final sketch from the class. It’s a bit “meta” I’ll admit.
