Shannon Larratt is Zentastic

Yet another addition for my Pencil animation demo reel. This is my fourth animation so far, and each time so far I’ve tried to include a new technique, idea, or method. In this video I split the action up into layers so that I only had to redraw elements that were actively changing. This meant there was no “jittering” of parts of the cartoon that should stay still, and that there was less work for me. In this animation there were four layers; the gun barrel (which is animated — the “bulge” — only for the first handful of frames), the nozzles and background (this stays the same throughout the animation), the flame (the most active of course), and a final overlay frame that I sketched motion paths and other reference lines onto as I needed this. This last frame was not included in the final output.

Have I mentioned how much fun this is?

Caitlin says it’s actually the “super hose, with a tube of toothpaste.”

On my screen/browser the animation is cropped very slightly (the left part of the border — no big deal and irrelevant other than aesthetically), so if that bothers you and you’d rather see it full-screen, or if the embedded animation doesn’t work for you, here’s a direct link.