i wanted to do another post like this one, showing a bit of how i animate using a combination paper and after effects. it's not the most efficient system out there, but it's the most efficient system for me, working on a train at least.
all starts with the storyboards/animatic. I try to draw really loose, but with enough poses so I know what's going to happen.
next some sort of layout to draw over on paper. it's pretty much the same here, but ideally a layout should improve the staging a bit.
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Pencil animation. Really going scooby doo on this one--limiting the parts I animate with multiple layers.
From here I'll use a multiply filter in after effects to color underneath the pencil drawing. They're just shape layers with the paths adjusted a tiny bit each frame. I've found this to be a little quicker than coloring frame by frame in photoshop, but it's not nearly as exact.
Oh! add the egg too.
add the watercolor BG
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and the final product
oh yeah! dr breakfast is a vimeo staff pick! thank you so much!