So... After procrastinating all weekend, I finally sat down to work on the bunny yesterday evening. There are some photos here, if you want to traumatize yourself. Yes. This is the harsh dark reality of cute an happy animation. Overweight women sitting around in their underwear, hunched over an animation disc that's propped up on milk crates, a pint of Guinness in easy reach. O_O That quote from Mike Jittlov, "And this is the way animation should be! keeps ringing (wrongly) in my head. ... I'm thinking that if I ever happen to finish a movie worth watching that I'll now have to call myself, Studio Slovenly ... It's honest and has sort of a nice alliteration to it.

Anyhow, back to what I really wanted to talk about: Hands No... that wasn't quite emphatic enough. Let's try again:

HANDS

There. *sigh* I thought I'd figured out how to draw hands... and by in large I have figured out how to draw small cartoon hands. Last night, I tried doing a close-up/high-angle drawing of the two holding hands and the girl pulling her hand away from the Bunny Boy's hand... Turns out, I'd never drawn hands from this angle, nor had I ever drawn them large. The type of hands I've been drawing look fine up to about 1" across, but at 6 or 7 inches across they totally break down and look awful. Adding detail makes them look too weathered. Very frustrating. *sigh* So I guess there's not much for it except to study. It's just sort of disappointing and crippling to my confidence. I really though I'd finally got hands down.

Maybe I should do all my animations about Powerpuff girls and the Schmoo.