White Rabbit GIF of DOOM

[pasithea]

Just to share where I'm currently at, here's The White Rabbit animation. Be warned THIS IS A 800K GIF

The part where he pulls her into the portal is really bad (keep in mind,t his stuff will be merged with video, so I can hide that some, but not that much) anyhow, I'm redoing the 'pull' section tomorrow night. After that? Well... Here's the issues I see as needing attention.

• Head turn and hand pulling away too fast after tail sprouts. I need to seperate all of these motions and also fix the jump-cut from the wide shot to her butt. I think it should look like this:
  
  • Tail grows, everything else still (Do as two layers instead of one as it is now to draw focus
  
  
  • Cut to her face as she goes from uncertain smile to startled
  
  
  • Close up of hands as she suddenly pulls hers away (background lighting effect fades)
  
  
  • Back to close of her face as she turns to look in disbelief.
  
  
  • Cut to tail shot
  
  


• Bunny-boy's hair seems to pulsate rather than blow. Any idea how to fix this?


• Need to add their bodies in the head shots.


• Some longer holds


• Make the nose/jaw changes more distinct


• Slow down the ears, add a little follow-through on their growth so they bounce at the end


• A closing shot of the two together, waving

.... And after that all I have to do is the video merging and all the effects... Well. Those parts are easy at least. I think if I can focus, I can get this done this weekend. I probably won't, but that's what I'll aim for. Any input any real animators would like to give me would be greatly appreciated. I'm muddling through this. *sigh*

Comments

[paka.livejournal.com]

Bunny-boy's hair seems to pulsate rather than blow

I think because the shape of the strands of hair is retained - here's a curved strand of hair to the left, now it's to the right. My opinion is that if you animated it like a strand of grass, or something similar - more in the format of an S-shape, with the wind pushing the base, and that traveling up enough to influence the movement of the tip, you'd get more of what you want.

[dv-girl.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Yeah. I have some trouble with S curves. I was doing it, but it's understated. I was also seeing the curve as the entire hair rather than just the free bit. I'll experiment with it and see if I can figure it out. I think that sets me in the right direction though.