I participated in the 24-Hour Animation contest a month ago, and this is the animation I created as my contribution to the film my team was tasked with completing within that exact timeframe.

I was literally up that entire night working on this fish and polishing it.

I will explain as I go :D

So one of the first exercises we were asked to do was to do a 360 turnaround for a bust of a character (grab a shitton of POVs of the character as ref, most importantly a front and side view, and then in between from there)

So naturally I did the only sensible thing, which is to do a 360 of a full body for my boi Koupen Chan <3 pacing of his flippers could use some work, but I stayed on model at least which was all we really needed haha (I was gonna do a Geronimo Stilton bust but I for the life of me couldn't find a perfect front view which we needed for this so o<-<)

These two ball animations are timing chart exercises (these eldritch number charts that mark the pacing of an animation). The timing chart example isn't the one I used for these two, but ye, it takes getting used to methinks but I think I got it down at least

This was our very first activity in the course, where we had to Photoshop two animals together as organically/realistically as possible and give it some tweaks to make it look nice :3 being the creature that I was (in a nightmare fuel mood at the time), I chose to merge a stoplight loosejaw, a fangtooth, and an eel-- all three things that are and have consistently been nightmare fuel :D. I would discuss my decision behind it, but that'd require me to talk about the stoplight loosejaw and its whole deal and knowing my ADHD ass that'd take all day soooo

Also I'm just realizing I'm skipping a step because as a primer we didn't really do much at all with animation for the first ten weeks of the course and spent it all in life drawing and Photoshop. Oh well :D

This is an eye blink exercise, where I got to try to figure out how I want my eyes to work in an animation context, plus learn how a blink works from an animation perspective

And alongside it is the original GIF frames we got to study and color how we saw fit

And last but not least for now, a smear frame exercise! We were asked to animate a bladed weapon of our choosing from the options we were given and add smear frames just however we choose ^^

I'm teaching myself animation (beginner)

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