Sneak Peek, Part III: Animation Process and a Penguin

And the post just keep coming.  Here is some animation I did for Sid the Science Kid.  I was blessed enough to be an animator for an entire season.  The clip shows the progression from rough animation (Flash) to the finish product with digital ink and paint (Photoshop).  I had to free my mind a little bit to keep myself from concentrating on perfect drawing. It's drilled in your head to have good drawing skills all through school and now I'm drawing stick figures (which has its own problems when trying to rotate in 3 dimentions).  When it came to actually animating, nothing changed though. All the principles were still applied. The animation is suppose to look like a kid drew it (Sid).  The lines were made to look like crayons and the backgrounds were made to look like construction paper.  I did most of the keys and breakdowns for the animation and Maria Baidakova did the inbetweens and some clean up.  I thought she would kill me for my drawings being so sketchy, but she pulled it off because she is AWESOME!  Oh and enjoy the random penguin. Who doesn't like penguins?

Sid the Science Kid, Episode 1x11 Clip from Brandon V. Fletcher on Vimeo.