here she is… This absolute monstrosity that somehow took over several months of my life and still looks like garbage…. All I can say is thanks, Animate. You suck. I’m going to develop carpal tunnel because of this project.
Anyway, all bitterness aside (well maybe not all bitterness), I spent a long time on this. Far longer than I should have. And I’m still really dissatisfied with the outcome. I don’t know what else to say. It’s choppy and not as clean as I wanted, but it’s alright I suppose. Maybe it’s just me.
So my animation tells the story of Bucky Barnes, my favorite comic book character. I figured if I was going to be drawing something hundreds of times, I might as well make it something I like. So I picked Bucky. I drew from both the comics and the movies, as I picked the comic’s ‘death’ of Bucky Barnes, but went with the movie’s ending. I think my favorite bit is the very beginning, because little Bucky Barnes in his little sidekick outfit (I know I drew him more like a child than he actually is) is just really cute.
I also made the mistake of animating a camera pan. I dont know why I thought that was a good idea but I did it anyway. I worked on that airplane scene towards the end so at that point I was really frustrated and in a lot of pain, so it didn’t come out the best but it’s alright I think. I was going to go through and smooth it out, add more frames and such, but I was so done with this project that I just decided it was good enough and decided to be done.
Anyway, after completely wrecking my hands and crying several times over Animate’s terrible drawing features, I spent the next hour exporting and compressing and editing the .gif so it didn’t look like garbage and was a decent file size. I then uploaded it here.
I’m going to go nurse my hand and take a nap.
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