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Title： A Temperate Hug

I learned a lot from this solo animation project. Any movement is based on reality and you can record yourself the movement you need to draw before you start. The more exaggerated the action, the more interesting the effect will be. Previously, the animation was drawn from the first picture to the end, so that the character would be deformed after the painting. I tried to completely solve this problem by drawing keyframes first and then filling them. During production, I also found that not every frame needs a draft, because after opening the onion skin, you can clearly see the frame before and after, and it is easy and fast to fill in the line between the two frames.

I think my character design and setting are good. But the lens is too simple, it should have more close-up or oblique Angle. There should also be more close-ups of action. As a result, the picture looks not rich, and the characters look very dull. I actually drew a lot of action but I made the characters so small that they looked very simple.

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This is one of the character designs. But when I put her with another character, the size difference is too big. Ideally, they'd be about the same height. I decided to change some parts

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The rat was her companion, fighting monsters with her in her dreams. Maybe the cat will be the enemy? Still thinking about it...

This mouse is programmed to be very edible, maybe he can eat the monsters in girl dream

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I draw this completed rotoscoped animation sequence made by procreate. I like using the pressure brush. It shows me clearly how I started and finished. The different angular widths of the shoes are a good way to show the movement of the foot, such as the rotation of her left foot.

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week2

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This was one of my character designs, and I referenced the body shape of the Powerpuff Girls. I think their faces are great for exaggerated expressions. Her hands and legs are thick and she can move more vividly. She has an eye patch and a hat to sleep in. My plan is to keep it on until she goes to bed. When she fall asleep, go into a dream and change into a simple outfit

The bear next to her is a machine, and she needs to touch the bear before going to sleep to dream

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It's a reference to the bear, which I brought back from Japan, and I really liked her so I wanted to incorporate it

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This is a character reference, and I borrowed their faces, their eyes, their limbs. But my design is a little too similar to the original, and a little complicated, I should simplify her

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This is a storyboard. It starts with the little girl picking up the bear on the table, which is an machie. She would dream after she started this mechanism. When she opens her eyes, it's her dream. She was a princess in the dream,

But this storyboard needs to be added a lot, because I have not yet figured out what she will do after entering the dream, and how to end

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This is the revised little girl, I simplified it a lot, using cute costumes and hairstyles, next to her buddy Mouse. His large front teeth are characteristic of him, which also reveals that his mouth is large and able to eat. The long legs show that he was agile and could probably run very fast. Rats actually run very fast

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This is a costume reference, blue dress, white collar, white socks,

I'm not going to draw the shoes, it would be more cute to draw two vertical lines on the socks to show her feet, and it would be better to show the body rotation in the animation

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middlesbrough is getting colder and colder. The weather forecast says it's going to snow. My friends and I are looking forward to it. But unfortunately only a little bit. I decided to make another character my friend and change the story version. Make an animation of snow

I added the ears of cats and bears, they have tails, and the hands are animal claws

Because it was winter, the original design on the left side was changed a little. The over-the-knee socks would be very cold. I replaced them with long stockings

Their eyes are different in shape, which can give people a glimpse of two people's personalities

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This is a simple version of the story,board，and I actually drew several versions of the storyboard. But I think it will be the last one， Because I don't have a lot of time for animation if I keep changing the story boards.

The story begins with the girl in Blue making a little snowman, and then the girl in yellow making a big one. Eventually she caught a cold.

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I probably chose to do this story because it's a southern obsession

Let me explain this southern obsession. My country has a lot of land, which results in a huge difference in climate between the north and the south. In winter, the temperature in the north is very low, even reaching a staggering minus 20 degrees. So there is heavy snow in winter. In the south, there is no snow at all, even in winter the lowest temperature is around ten degrees. So some southerners have never seen snow in their lives without traveling to the north. Fortunately, I went to the north once when I was very young and saw the happiness brought by snow, but that time also made me yearn for snow more

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This is the first part of the pick up snow draft. I will add a title to the blank space in the front

I sketched every frame, which took a lot of time. I thought I'd sketch the keyframe, then just line it and fill in the middle

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My own video reference is the snow in the first frame. But I have nothing to hold in place of snow, which is later added by imagination

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a rough draft of the keyframe. I looked for sneezing videos on the Internet and found that some people sneeze with their head shaking. But it doesn't look good when all I do is shake head. So I matched it with the snot. The snot doesn't move at the same speed as a person so I use it to represent the path of movement, and it ends up looking much more coordinated. Then it need to stay a little longer in the upward motion before the sneeze.

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A background draft. This is the main scene. But it looks a little weird because they're supposed to be playing in the snow in the yard. It's out in the yard

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This is the first completed line draft (but this is the last frame). I've actually changed this drop of water many times. The first drip was so fast that I let it fall to the ground with five sheets, but I forgot that I was drawing fifteen frames. So that I couldn't see the water droplets at the end. I also found a lot of reference videos for this cloth. But most of the net is to throw a piece of cloth out, completely can not find the cloth dropped because of the blast out. I draw it in an arc and then it falls normally.

This hairstyle looks crooked. Because it was so late when I drew this and I forced myself to finish this before I went to sleep. As a result, when I drew later, I was not very good and I did not pay attention to the overall shape. When I got up in the morning and checked this section, I realized that my entire hair was crooked. I should do line drawing when I'm totally awake….

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To make it more flexible, I changed her hair and his ears at first. The ears and hair were down when she lifted it. Then I remembered that heavy lifting is slow moving so I cut it. More frames will be added to the stand up segment to show that she is moving slowly.

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A reference for moving snowballs. But the height of the characters is very different so I need to change some of the movements such as the degree of leg movement and knee position

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The girl on the right holds her face, showing her thinks: This snowman is too small.

So she is going to make a bigger snowman .

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In order to make the picture not dull, I put the snow man in front of the camera and his back to the camera. The two characters face the camera as well as the snowman.

I added a shade of blue to the snowman's shadow for reflection. This will make the picture look much cleaner

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This is the complete background picture (I took two background pictures together), when making the small snow man is done in the right courtyard entrance, the big one is on the left.

I drew a fence with snow to enrich the picture. There is an orange bucket next to it. It is for making snowman's hat.

Signs and mailboxes indicate that this is the front yard.

The big snowball is the body of the snowman. Since it doesn't have to move in the picture, so I drew it directly on the background

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This is an indoor living room scene.

I changed the color of the lines to make them lighter. This accentuates the character, gives the picture more structure and a gentle look.

In order to echo the outside, I drew a window. You could see the snow piling up outside. The overall color is warm, contrasting with the blue outside.

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The background of the character pushing Snowball is a little different, I enlarged the fence as the background. So it doesn't scatter too much, the focus is on her pushing a snowball. The background moves as she moves, and it's a very careful job. I need to draw a long background first and then move with the character.

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Make a close-up of the little snowman.

following the previous picture. Make the video look smoother

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This is a complete color screen. Except for the character lines, they are all colored lines to highlight the characters.

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Adjusted some shades to make them look more balanced. Added a few more frame stops. But the whole animation is a little longer than I expected.

I felt that the sudden jump indoors at the end was too strange, so I zoom in on the crystal ball before that to get a close-up of its highlights.

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The title was added to the front of the video to blend in with the first paragraph. I see many problems after the video back together .Many places are too cramped should add more frames, I will lengthen some parts of the stay. There's a draft in i t, and some black marks on the floor in the last frame because I didn't add a bottom background. Some slight error in the color. Maybe I didn't pick the right color.