#animating is hard

Have ur silly ready (I’ll be using this Raph cuz it was so funny to me)

Copy-paste ur frame so you’ll have 5 frames 🫴

leave the first one as-is

then go to the second one and slightly squish the eyes and eyebrows down a bit (blue lining = the the previous panel)

Squish down and stretch slightly outwards so it gives the squinting illusion 😋

next, erase the eyes and draw them closed‼️

The eyebrows shall be arched down like mad eyebrows to show the eyes have closed (doesn’t have to be SUPER exaggerated, can just be a slight tilt of the eyebrows)

the next frame, copy-paste your first frame with the normal open eyes, but THIS time you squish it

Slight stretch UP and squish INWARDS, to give it a cartoony bounce when the animation moves

final frame, the easiest one, copy-paste the first one again‼️

it should look like this (without the onion peel blue line):

Add as many frames as you need to keep the character’s eyes open after their blink and this should be your final product‼️

Woah‼️

if you’re talking about MOVEMENT then I’m just as clueless as you

Throws a timelapse at you instead:

I drew the KEY movements Leo was supposed to hit, and then filled in the rest of the empty areas with the movement to get from frame A to frame B (this was a test because movement animation is NOT my thing)

you can also “cheat” the system in animation by giving it the “smooth movement” where you only move the lineart SLIGHTLY so it looks smooth 🙏 (idk if it makes sense, i have no idea how to teach things, I think you can see it on the timelapse tho)

thankyew for the ask‼️🫶