H.o.p. likes the idea I’m posting his movies for friends and relatives to see, and this afternoon he did two for the blog. The little program he works in employs a fundamental form of flippad onionskinning. What you draw is what you get. No panning and zooming. No copying of images you’ve already drawn and pasting in.
In which a red bird is pursued by a monster bird. I like how the monster bird snaps at the bird and red tail feathers fly.
– The ocean
– Out of a wave (on the left) a sea monster’s dark and light green tail emerges.
– A second sea monster leaps from the ocean, seen from behind so you don’t see the head, only the feet
It’s difficult finding on the web animation that other children have done, but I eventually came up with some submissions at Amazing Kids and was able to show H.o.p. what some other children were doing. I’ve only just started looking.
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