Day 219 / Freeform Dry-Erase Animation

I got a phone call at 5:50 that resulted in me having to stay late at work until about 8-8:30 at night.  As I have said in many of my recent posts my initial plans were to work on the unfinished harmonograph collecting dust in my parent’s garage.  Due to the time, I opted to stay home.

 

I didn’t feel very inspired by many of the ideas I was having except the urge to do an animation.  I pushed the thought away knowing that it takes a long time to get any real results.  It kept popping back up.

 

So I decided to do a quick, random, freeform animation.  In contrast to my first dry-erase animation I wasn’t planning anything out.  I wasn’t going to be doing any realistic movement.  I wanted it to be similar to the kind of animation you usually see in dry-erase where the act of drawing itself is animated.

 

What excited me the most about it was that I didn’t know what the heck I was drawing from one frame to the next.  I just went with the flow.  It was an interesting experiment and I definitely will try it again some time in the future.

 

Working in this way also allowed me the ability to finish more frames.  I don’t have to worry about redrawing the whole thing every single frame.  I can simply adjust a little here and a little there.  The final animation which you can watch below is 12 seconds long.

 

I hope you enjoy!