Dragon graphic

For e-shop Mysticshop I was creating expansion symbol icons and then I was asked to create a dragon that could be used on a box.

Dragon Whelp Animation - colored

The digital animation was much better from my point of view. There are some frames I missed in the hand drawn animation and I hate myself for that. I never managed to get it right after I drew all those 50 frames. After I drew everything I scanned it and then colored each frame in Photoshop.

(If the animation would be slower and I would add few frames I should be able to fix it)

The final short animation looks like this



Dragon Whelp animation

Hand Drawn Animation

After storyboarding was done. I had to start drawing each frame. I wasn't sure that my animation would give me some good results. I've never done a longer animation than few frames so I wasn't sure about it at all. So I drew those 100 frames using my tablet first.

When I was done I made an animated GIF out of it. It looked good so I've done the very same but on paper.

Hand Drawn Animation

Our first assignment was to create several hand drawn animations that would consist of 100 frames in total. I had no idea what to do so I started with doing a storyboard of few Para Para movements (Japanese dance - danced in clubs). I decided not to draw a silhouette of a person doing it but just a 'wooden figure' (see storyboard below).

Later when I was taking another paper (stored in my Magic album) an idea came to my mind. I saw there in my album an altered Mountain with a Dragon Whelp painted on it. I was like...'hey I could draw a dragon getting out of an egg!' This in the end ended up to be my another 50 frames.

Very primitive storyboards follow. You can get at least a general idea of what is coming next! I tried to make each animation at least 50 frames long.