Bosko's Clap Dance

I finished this one last night, it came out pretty good:



I did it more or less straight ahead via copying. I did the feet and legs first and then the rest (all roughly). After that I did a clean up and colour layer. This one was probably the hardest due to the changing head angles. I used a construction circle from the first frame to check most of the other frames.

Also, here's the rough pre clean-up:

Bosko's Chicken Dance

Ok, Here's dance loop number 2, the Chicken Dance:



Here's how I did it. First the analysis. I noted that the last 12 frames were just the first 12 in reverse. Here's proof, the one on the right is in reverse (24 frames looped at half speed):



Secondly I noticed that all the keys and breakdowns (ie, the highest and lowest points) were held for 2 frames. This cut the total number of unique frames down to 9! After that I copied all the keys and breakdowns first, followed by the inbetweens. I was thinking about doing some of the inbetweeens without copying, but I decided not to this time.

One to go.

Full Bosko 1

Here is the Bosko I did yesterday with a head, colour and  bit cleaner. I like it. For the head, I made one orginal image which I placed on another layer and traced for each frame. I think it look a bit more organic than using the same pic (I think I got that tip from one of Tony White's books). The lines are still a bit jittery (even after a fair bit of cleaning). I'll have to focus on making smoother lines for the next one. I think I'll try one of the other dance cycles (from the original clip) today.





I like the approach Pedro took to this exercise (ie, doing the keys, then breakdowns and then the inbetweens). I'll have to try that for the next one. With this one I pretty my copied every frame.

Bosko Dance Cycle 1

I took a break from the Preston Blair stuff today and worked on some actual animation. Here's my first attempt at a bosko dance cycle: 




Here's the process I took. First I wrote notes next to it indicating what was moving when:



Then I traced all the frames of bosko and then finally attempted to draw it. Here's a screenshot of my workspace in TVPaint.

I'll have to go in and make this look more like bosko, but I'm pretty pleased with how it turned out so far.