Making a Fortune

cartoons, comedy, Uncategorized

I animated this in Adobe Animate, and damn, it took some time and effort, as I’m still a novice animator. Here are a few things I learned since my last cartoon, ‘Apples and Oranges’, and applied to this one:

Created a scene with an atmosphere, rather than just characters standing in front of a blank background.

Used a glow effect to create the fire, the purple smoke explosion and the darkness surrounding the two characters.

Animated the fortune teller twiddling her fingers.

Used the camera layer to zoom in and out of the crystal ball.

While animating the guy talking, I focused on drawing the overall gesture of the word, rather than drawing each letter. When animators draw each letter, the mouth movements look choppy, as if the speaker is over-enunciating everything. I saw this weakness in ‘Apples and Oranges’, so this time I focused more on words, which makes the movement more fluid and believable.