For this animation I drew 'naturally' as in I drew like I would in my own sketchbook - when drawing a pointless doodle - despite this being an important end of year show animation, I really wanted to animate like that. The way I draw has changed lightly over the last year, partly because of the shows I've been watching and the styles that have inspired me.
Steven Universe has sort of 'adapted' the way I draw cartoons. Danny Hynes and Colin Howard are both character designers on the show, who developed the 'look' of the show with Rebecca Suger herself (the creator). Their visual athletic together is very similar, perhaps because they both work very closely within the studio on other projects and on Steven Universe. I tried to replicate the 'shadow' effect they give in the style reference for Steven Universe. Where 'shadow' on a character carry's a thicker outline to the animation itself. I tried to replicate this method to my own animation for this project, instead of using a circle brush I edited the brush to be thicker when drawing a certain edge.
Colin Howard
Danny Hynes
Jaltoid (an 'animating couple') and Harry partridge are both youtube channels online. Both channels I found piratically inspiration for the core of this projects animation. Jaltoid animate together shorts about their day to day lives and funny jokey videos, already earning themselves over 500000 subscribers on youtube. Both of them have a 'combined style' in which they draw their characters and themselves. Harry partridge is an animator who works on his own projects in his spare time - he uploaded one that really inspired me to create the animation I did...
Animated on flash, above is a short animation revolving about the possibilities of animation and how Harry himself ended up becoming an animator in the first place. The video itself is very funny and always earns a few chuckles from me. Originally I wanted to record a song similar to this to go along side my animation, but ran out of time...
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