i see a face. creating a gif

starting to create the gifs. i have chosen to cease 3 gifs one a very defined and difficult one, and more lose but steady 1 and then a fun and less artistically skill needed 1. this bird gif is the refined and high standard gif, even though its not refined as my usual work.

i started by sketching on tracing paper the first frame. a bird sat on the branch.

i then changed the levels if the image to give it a mover texture and to get rid of the paper texture, bringing the pencil tone down makes the pencil work darker and makes the image less crafted looking.

i knew that i would struggle with the computer side of creating the gif. i tried work out in my he'd what would be the best way to adapt skills into making a successful gif. i thought by drawing the bird once and scanning it in then drawing and scanning in elements of the bird that moves 

 a couple more images i drew to over lap the images to create the movement on the gif

then layering them and over lapping them one by one on each frame. this didn't go to plan what so ever, it brought me more stress and struggle. i couldn't get to grips of how the animation worked on the compute. the images i had created to move didn't work as planned there wasn't enough images fame by fame for the movement to look true. it was twitching and very unsuccessful.

at this point i was lost, i couldn't work out how to make it work, my mind had gone blank on how to create it on paper for the image to run smooth. nothing would work. to get it smooth running on aper and on computer just wouldn't compute in my mind. struggled a lot on this

this is the point i got to before i decided to stop and start again with a fesh mind and eye.

I'm happy that iv got something that kinda moves on screen but its not what i expected of my self or what i had in mind for a finished piece. i wanted the head to have a smoother fast movement and the wings i wanted to fluter but have some sense of moment when they shut again, a suggestion that they was going back to a comfortable state. how ever it just looks like a old game boy game graphics…vey bold. the wings don't open and close they appear then vanish.

this will do as a test, iv learnt what to do for my next gif. i shall draw each frame on paper then scan them all in and work on them one by one instead of trying to make it easier for my ability on photoshop.