Self Portrait Animation

This is the fourth and final animation I did for my 2D animation class. Its style is inspired by Bill Watterson and the character Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. The trees and the other background elements were inspired by the style of the Bible Project videos, specifically "The Day of the Lord" video. For this assignment, we were supposed to turn a version of ourselves into something else. Our wonderful teacher suggested a spirit animal or animal totem, so I chose a rabbit because I thought it would be something I was capable of doing. I wanted to do a walking cycle, since it's a mainstay of animation. I'm really happy with how it turned out. I remembered to animate the shoulders, hips, etc. this time instead of having the arms just kind of swing robotically back and forth like I did in 3D animation class.

Originally, I was planning to have the transition between the two be very slow and almost indiscernible at first. But then my teacher suggested just having an object obscure the change and I thought that sounded like a fantastic idea. I might still want to come back to this concept when I'm better with animation and Adobe. 

My dad asked me "why a rabbit?" I like rabbits. I identify with rabbits. You may have noticed one or two on this blog.

This year has been such a disaster for everyone else, but God has really blessed me in all of this. Praise God. Your mercy is great. God, please save all the hurting people. Amen.