CHARACTER animation
Freetime projects are an important part of a designer’s life. Sometimes it can be as simple as messing around with a pencil or brush, or a digital one in Procreate. Like in this case.
As a homage to a series called “Skip and loafer”, I wanted to imagine what I myself would look like if I were to be in the series, skipping in loafers. First I shot a reference video of myself, then illustrated a more detailed and more manga styled version, and then illustrated a frame by frame animation of the reference video.
Here is the result! I love it, haha.
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I went as far as shooting a video of me skipping in a (sort of) school uniform to get the perfect reference image to work with. It goes without saying, I had f u n !
< Work in progress. Sketching exploring the visual style of Skip and loafer and using my own picture as a reference.
The flowers are from the opening of the series Skip and loafer by Misaki Takamatsu.