2D Animation club week 5

The theme in animation club this week was Connection. When I made this piece, I was conscious of how the current quarantine is preventing me personally from being able o see my long distance partner. I wanted to convey a sense of the connection that I am maintaining with him across the internet. This is done through the elastic physical representation of hands touching in this animation.

I used a more detailed process than my previous animations here, in Adobe Animate. I used 3 separate layers, starting with an animatic storyboard of the major movements in rough sketches; the next layer up, I animated the frames and keyframes in more rough sketches.

At this stage, in the final linework layer, I used the Pen Tool to refine each frame. It is my first time using the Pen Tool in Animate, and I am really happy with how it cleaned up the frames. I definitely want to keep using this in the future.