A sleepy dog considers his option.
Sleeping dog is made in TVPaint. I came up against my own shortfalls in drawing when trying to rotate the dog's head through space. I experimented with an approach brought to my attention by Yao Shunyuan and used by the animator of My Milk Cup Cow, Yantong Zhu. I printed frames from TVPaint*, used a lightbox to redraw them, scanned and then imported them back in for use as templates. This was marginally more successful than drawing straight into TVPaint and certainly a work flow that interests me.
This was a large file and I am still finding TVPaint hard to naviagate. Somewhere in the timeline I lost the rise and fall of the sleeping dog's body. A further iteration would see the the use of the scattered line brush to create movement in the dog's hair, along with sound.
* Yantong Zhu creates her frames in Flash, exports the drafts and does tweening and final linework on the light table.
By Sarah Dunk
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Published On: 29/07/2019