1st draft 1st gif!

HERE WE GO

MORE BASIC ANIMATIONS

This sequence when actually animated/drawn will most likely create three gifs.

Fairy Design

Not quite sure if this will be the final design for her, but here is the first digital rendering of this character.

Animation update

I decided to, for now, abandon the hand drawn style and I broke his character down into basic shapes. I decided that I should work on manipulating these simple objects first, later drawing over them or incorporating them. here is the first body movement series that brings us to the end of the first gif.

Working on frame by frame animation, specifically the first facial expressions of the robot, in Illustrator

Preliminary sketches // storyboard

I'm trying to create a backstory for two characters that me and my friend are playing, so I am choosing to illustrate their first encounter. Here is kind of a rough storyboard // character sketches of how their friendship began :)

Rough storyboard/ Proposal

I'm planning on doing an animation, most likely a hand drawn piece edited in photoshop. The idea behind this animation is to take the simple lines of clearly distinguished objects and, using those same lines, create a different scene.
We begin with a tree, it rotates, revealing a girl on a swing. We zoom in to the ropes of the swing, which become tracks, panning up to reveal a train. Finally we zoom in to the smoke from the burning coal and are again submerges in the same lines that represent tree leaves from the opening frame.