For this assignment, we had to animate based off of a video of ourselves. Fortunately, (for my creative brain, not my hands) I happened to be dressed as Captain America that day. Having the shield in there resulted in more work, but I think it looks cool!
Since I’m stationary, I had to make my feet slide back so I didn’t just nyooom off the frame. Which is not what I wanted. I am actually rather happy with the outcome here, despite the struggles along the way.
After a few sketch layers based off of my video I started color blocking. I started with the shield, my face and my jacket, adding my pants on a later under these so I could be lazy with the top of the shapes. After all the color blocking was finished (and after a lot of tweaking and polishing the movement), I moved on to shadows. During this time I also completed the shield. After all the shadows were done, I added the details on my shoes and my face.
After that, I was basically done!
There was a whole lot of trail and error, but we got there eventually.
Jay's Art and Design 