The kid's head has a very specific shape that I need to refine and it's a battle to make sure the dog doesn't look like some hamster-bear-hybrid but otherwise, I'm really proud of how this WIP LoopdeLoop is coming along.
The physicality of how the boy and dog turn the corners is actually the biggest challenge which I've just had a go scribbling out so far. I mean, people always go on and on about how hard four-legged walk cycles are, but in reality, everything is just capturing shifting weights. If you've ever seen a big dog leaping and bounding before, if you know in the slightest the weight and personality of what you're drawing, you can animate it with conviction.
All I can say in tonight's post is that I don't think this but I know it - that my art is improving only because I have had other life pursuits I've humbly studied or practiced, skills I never gravitated to before hardships in my life.
No offence, but I chose to study things that are seemingly unrelated to visual art, and I'm so grateful I finished my degree last week, because I have pride that I chose a study option that gave me the space and time I needed to breathe and for all my wounds to heal. It worked.
I don't talk about this either, but I became passionate about dancing in recent years since my trauma.
Yes I mean dancing.
Not dancing according to someone elses choreography, and not at some club or group at any studio. Not even vainly recording my moves at home. My dancing is a display of the purest energy and emotion that cannot be captured, recorded and distilled down.
Midnight dancing around the house ( not trying to be serious but yet, I took the intent behind it seriously) is precisely why my animation is how it is NOW.
So is my singing. Not singing in a group or professionally or for anyone, but singing loud and proud my fave songs, all for myself and more recently, all for my sweet dear baby who cannot judge and only giggles back.
People don't get this cuz they just don't, but I'm SO grateful for all the 'lolz soooo random' things I've tried. Dancing and singing let me feel a scrap of happiness, during a time of my life where I never thought I'd ever be cured of my nighttime dreaded 'leg shakes'.
I feel and hear and see the rhythms of life much more now than I ever did try to before. Truly. Everyday and supposedly mundane experiences feel richer, more pleasant and infinitely more meaningful than they did before I suffered. Maybe you gotta suffer to get here. Yes, the Buddha said something like that right?
Animation and dance are similar. So is animation and music. Even so is writing and animation. If you only see all these acts of expression as all 'random' and separate from one another, thatsa why ya art sucks, bai~
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