So the first thing i did was i read the book "The Animators Survival Guide" written by Richard Williams, the Head animator who animated "Who Framed Rodger Rabbit". It is great reference material, and taught me everything about animation to date. The first thing it showed me is how i have to take a ball on a string, and to show how it moves depending how frequent the frames are or not.
If you want to make the shot more, you will have less frames beside others.
But if you want to have a slower shot, then you would need to have more frequent frames side by side.
For one shot, you need your "Extremes", these are the main actions in a shot, for instance if i was making a ball on a string, then i would make it start left on the first extreme, and right on the last extreme. Whatever frames are in the middle of these Extremes is simply called the "Inbetweeners", these frames are the most important cause they build the actions for the shot.
After i figured out what needs to be done, i started drawing my walking animation.
To the right you can see the last frame marked the end, walk. In total, it has a grand number of 21 frames or pages. This took about 2 to 3 days of picking at it, and planning what to draw where.
It was a good start despite doing very little animation.
Here you can see, i made a similar animation in the Pencil program. This one has a grand total of 30 frames, but i set the speed for 8 frames/second. Yet this one is not finished due to time constraint. i was gonna have him walk over to a box and open it, but he is only walking up to it.
I can for surely say that this a great start for hopefully a future animator/director.
