I made this Gif today because Adelaide is in lockdown and I didn’t have much else to do (kind of). It was made in Adobe Animate in kind of a traditional pipeline. It’s a dance move that I tried out in a Twitch Aerobics Class by Grumble Wish this morning that I think is called something like Frog Legs or Froggie. Either way, I did it badly and thought if I tried to animate it, maybe in the process I’d figure out how to do it properly. Did it help? I’ll know tomorrow when I try it again! GIF’s are fun to make because they are kind of the language of the internet. I have a Giphy account that I am not totally sure what to do with.
Anyway I’m not sure what you’re expecting from this post BUT because you took the time to read it here is some BEHIND THE SCENES steps of the gif process!
So I basically watched the movement a million times and just made a little armature that is doing the movement with a big thick stroke. Normally I draw armatures but for tweening a stroke made it way easier for a dance movement because I could easily isolate and offset the movements where I needed to. That’s all done with the purple stick person. When I was happy with that I drew in the rough version of the movement overtop, that’s the middle one. Then I cleaned it all up and tried to make it a little more squashy and stretchy, add a bit more drag etc. Normally I do this in the previous step but I was really only intended to be a small GIF so I was fine doing it in clean up.
EDIT: Oh it got shared by the person who inspired it.
Levi George Illustration 