an animated conversation
How you getting on with that rabbit cartoon? And that boiling line business?
“I think I overcooked it. You can definitely over-boil your line. That must be the art. How much to boil. But I found another video tutorial about line boil by an animator called Micah Buzan. It’s very useful. Only now I think I overcoloured the cartoon. Making cartoons is definitely complicated.”
It does sound like cooking, dear. Seems your rabbit stew is tough and over-seasoned. Whoops!
Sometimes it feels as if things are a bit of a struggle.
Still. Today I saw 20 curlews in the field opposite the house … which was lovely.
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”
She sees the rabbit for the first time.
The Rabbit Couple.
Two more rough frames.
It grew.
And she grew.
Digital drawings: Lynn Harvey
Two more “rough” frames for my Dream Rabbit animation. Finding the Rabbit. And Rabbit close-up.
Digital drawings: Lynn Harvey
“That’s it. No more drawings of heads. Time for me to animate something.”
Jolly good, dear. What’s your cartoon going to be about?
“Well I dreamed of a rabbit the other night. It wasn’t in good shape and I picked it up to take it home and look after it. But it grew and grew in my arms, getting heavier and heavier until I could hardly walk…”
A proper nightmare if you ask me.
“Best thing to do with nightmares is to rewrite them.”
Blimey!
