53 individual Frames, animated in TvPaint! Most of it is animated on twos, the last section of slowly raising the head is on fours because I didn't want to bother inbetweening so closely, for a mere test x:
School has finally started and I am back to doing random animated snippets during free time! I'll hopefully be posting more frequently now. Though, this thing here isn't as random as usual,, seeing as we started this week fullblast on getting our initial pitches all readied up for our student film that we'll be creating next semester. So this here is actually a test to see what a particular scene for one of those possible projects could look like (I really hope this one gets picked, it's more atmospheric and moody- the other is basically the opposite; character driven and comedic) If either of mine get's picked (it's a group project and everyone is making pitches) they'll both be a real challenge to work on. One's gonna be hard because it'll be my lil'baby with a lot of personal/emotional investment, the other one will be hard because I'm totally inexperienced with character driven storytelling.
A lil personal update as well; we had another big deadline on top of the pitches, so my first week of school was basically a jump into cold water of last minute deadline stress. I wasn't aware how big of a toll it was taking on me until this Saturday where I slept straigth through until noon :'T I had hoped to get some work done, but instead laid in bed the weekend.
I still regularly struggle with evaluating whether I'm actually taking necessary breaks or whether I'm just being lazy, but this was just straight up needed chill-time.
(still feel slightly guilty though, because it wouldn't even have been half as bad if I hadn't gotten into a new bout of fanfiction readings during the two days of deadline dates, you know, where you sort by popularity and the first 2 pages worth of entries are each in average all around 200k words??? yeah.. still have a lot of tabs open from that. I'm very bad at controlling my binge-reading habits, and basically got 4 hours of sleep during the 2 nights prior to weekend, oops)