Just an experiment, playing with “Boiling*” as a stylistic element.
The musician character was the first to appear as I was interested in looking at music as the centre of this piece.
The sound was played by myself on my vintage Eco acoustic.
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Earlier I’d experimented with other musician based animation tests, below is the banjo player…
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*BOILING ~ this is the shimmering or wobbling effect often seen in hand drawn animation where the lines have been traced or light-boxed over and over in a sequence of drawings.
Originally the effect may have occurred due just to the basic mechanics of trying and failing to copy lines exactly whilst creating a rapid sequence of frames, later it came to be an effect introduced deliberately as a stylistic feature both in traditional drawn animation and in digital and computer generated animation – the random fluctuations in line quality making the animation look hand drawn, the effect is particularly useful in bringing scenes to life in which a still frame was previously used (which would have jarred visually), the relatively minimal movement of the frame agitated into “life” by boiling.
A good example of this technique can be found in the work of Bob Godfrey and Rhubarb & Custard (1974)
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