AGI 1 - Continued study

I took my study that I did this week of Hiraoka Masanobu's animation style and continued that in this exercise, but I also blended in a reference from animator Ryan Woodward.

I decided to create a mutating hand in the style of Masanobu because that is a sequence that he has made for Anderson Paak's Flying Lotus music video, and I decided that to do this study I would need to emulate his idea and learn by study how he made it. I also wanted the explosion of the object, but I don't know how explosions work, so I looked up Ryan Woodward's Vimeo account and used his video clip 'Carbon' as a reference point.

To mutate the hand in a way that looks grotesque, alive and organic, I used a lot of circles and circles layered around eachother that I could remove in the refined linework layer.

For the explosion, I found that in Carbon, Woodward creates a sense of expansion by having circles growing exponentially within themselves, so I adapted this to my explosion.

I also figured out how to colour multiple objects at once, assuming the same colour I need to change is all in one layer. I selected all the frames in the layer, then went to the sidebar to change the Object Fill Colour with all the frames selected.