Hand Drawn animation

This week I carried on from the pose to pose animation task. used the same hand drawn technique just using pencil and a light box. Since this was a pose to pose animation planning was crucial. I spent quite a bit of time planning the positions for each frame to get the right timing this made animating a lot quicker and easier. I found using a light box very helpful for this brief, it allowed me to see at least three previous frames so I could see how my animation was panning out. I feel I didn't get the motion on the cats head quite right I think it slows down a bit much at the top of its ark. I will bare this in mind next time I animate a similar ark. I really enjoyed animating by hand I felt it was extremely satisfying. I also thought it was much easier to spend a long period of time animating by hand rather than in front of a screen both for my eyes and for my general concentration. This is definitely a technique I want to pursue further.