I did these frames on animation paper, before putting them into photoshop and colouring them to make the GIF. i only put the rope around the neck on two of the frames, as i decided to wait till i edited the frames in photoshop. as i would be able to cut the rope out and duplicate it to place onto the other frames, saving myself time.
the resulting GIF isn’t as good as I wanted it to be. part of this is due to being rendered at a low bitrate in order for my laptop to be able to process it, as well as being able to get it onto the blog and YouTube. however, I also feel the drawings don’t look very good. going back, if I’d had the time I would have definitely changed the background to make it look more sea like. I also would get rid of the black outlining as I feel its too thick and just doesn’t fit. I think this would allow the drawings to move smoother as black sticks out with such a dark contrast compared to the seal colouring and the sea.
however I am also quite happy as I wasn’t not expecting these frames to work at all. due to the back of the seal going up and down, while the fins change I felt like it changed the position too much between frames. so while this doesn’t look good, it has worked better than I thought it would.
