Animation: Rabbit Stew

2 plasticine heads in conversation

I hear you’ve been boiling your dream rabbit.

“What? No Mum, I’ve been practising BOILING me line … in my animating. I’m following a young animator kdsketch on YouTube. Her tutorials are really helpful and she uses the same software as me. One of her videos demonstrates creating “a boiling line effect” … a kind of jitter in the animated image. So I’m going to try using it.”

“It’s only just coming up to the simmer so I can’t show you the end result. But I’m going to try boiling these images soon.”

You’re not making any sense you know. “Yup. I do know”

rear head and shoulders drawing of child

She sees the rabbit for the first time.

head and shoulders drawing of rabbit and woman couple

The Rabbit Couple.

Those Hundred Heads

plasticine head on sketchbook looking to camera

“Well I started my 100 Heads. I am a woman of some age who has never really managed light and shadow. My first love is a quite sparse but definite line. I also know that I am not going to manage 100 heads in 10 days. I will post some pen and ink drawings over the next week or so. Think of it as … quite a lot of heads in two or three weeks!”

screaming
Reference: Unsplash.com – Jason Rosewell

 

line drawing of 1920s photo booth shot of couple
Reference: Vintage Photobooth

 Drawings: Lynn Harvey