Okay wow so if I thought colouring the body exercise was tedious, this was hellish! It was such a struggle to make everything neat as the character is so much closer and you can easily see any flaw. And also, I discovered that when you colour things, it really points out all the errors you’ve made in the line-art. For example, once I’d coloured his hair, it was obvious his hairline was jumping around like crazy so I had to make a correction layer to remedy that.
I also had to find a kind of compromise with the hair and facial features when it came to the colouring, as oftentimes the expressions in the eyes and eyebrows were completely covered up by the dark hair. Therefore I opted for a sort of semi-transparent effect with the hair, but that just meant twice the work for the features as I couldn’t just bulk colour them because of the different tones. Overall I think it was worth it though because the expressions are much clearer now.
With regards to the actual timing and line art aspects I’ve found that I tend to rely heavily on the blurry, one frame frames which I am currently blanking on the name of! They do make life a lot easier, however I think too many in once short animation can be a bit over the to, and this one is definitely toe-ing the line.
I am however, quite proud of how much better at follow through I’ve gotten. The hair in this is a bit too exaggeratedly swishy at some points, but I think the swaying earrings worked well and I really don’t think I could’ve done this just a couple of months ago.
I’m not as happy with how the sound turned out on this once, as some of the sounds don’t really match the characters mouth shape but I was doing the best with the resources I had!
EDIT: Again, I posted this on my fandom-heavy social medias and the response was incredible again!
People in the comments were incredibly sweet and asking for more animations of the hedgehog terrorising this kpop group…
Like before, I know that this only got attention because it is fandom-related, but I don’t think getting your foot in the door with fan art is a bad thing!