I found this exercise super fun! I used a story told by one of the kpop idols I follow, which motivated me more to turn it into a finished-looking piece. It also made me realise how much more work goes into an animation even after you’ve worked out the timing and line art etc. Colouring this was nothing short of a nightmare!!
Following the feedback from December’s crit, I decided this would be a good animation to try adding sound to as it’s the most dramatic one I’ve made so far, and I personally think the sound adds an extra level of exaggeration to the movements.
EDIT: I posted this animation on my social media and the response was mind blowing!! Particularly on twitter…
I am fully aware of the fact that this only gained so much traction and 300,000+ views because it is fandom related and so many people in the fandom know the story I’m portraying (which they’ve never had a visual for before). If it was an animation of a random person picking up and sniffing hedgehog poop it wouldn’t have gotten even a fraction of the attention this got. But despite this I cant help but feel happy about the incredible comments I got from this! Here are a few of them:
I’d already started my facial acting exercise with the same kpop character and hedgehog before this blew up so I’m looking forward to the response if I finish and post that one too.