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I realize it's sort of jittery. This was actually never supposed to be an animation in the first place. I was just trying to practice drawing people running, so I downloaded this video: [link] and ran it through avidemux. I drew most of the frames of the first sequence (246 total) in order, just so I could practice valid running poses. They were just drawn in my sketchbook with around 20 per page. I couldn't flip/overlay to check how the frames would flow, so each was drawn without the previous or next frame in mind. After scanning the 11 pages, I got the idea to see how they'd animate. I put them all together with the great free program aseprite: [link] I'm sort of amazed they flow as well as they do, I only resized them if necessary. It's kind of interesting how much more consistent I get at the end! I wonder, is it still rotoscoping if I referenced every frame, but did no tracing? Eh, whatever.

To see what the frames look like in my sketchbook: [link]

I also recommend checking out my scraps if you're interested in some of my other recent doodles: [link]

I'm keeping busy. I hope you are too!

Thanks for looking! Kind regards to Tamila (the runner in the video I referenced) for giving me permission to share this with you all. Edit: Found out she has a deviantart.

Fun facts:

The frame numbers are what avidemux told me. Since the first 26 seconds or so are an introduction, I started on frame 796. (Which means the video is 30 FPS, not 24 )

I drew frames 796-923 in one night (June 20). (It took about four hours, including some internet breaks/snack breaks)

I drew frames 924-1040 the next night (June 21). (Took about four hours, including breaks.) I compiled the animation after sleeping on this day which took about two hours.

So if you're keeping track, that's about ten hours to get what would have been ten seconds of animation if it were running at 24 FPS. Not bad.

I had actually not slept much before day one, so I accidentally skipped frame 868, and then I guess to make up for it, I accidentally drew frame 877 twice.

I must have made a mistake somewhere else, since 1040-796+1 is 245 frames, not 246. (246 is the number of frames in the gif)

I drew a couple more frames than I actually planned to just to fill up the last page. (I wanted to stop at 1038, since at that point her steps were obscured by a wall)

Description
I realize it's sort of jittery. This was actually never supposed to be an animation in the first place. I was just trying to practice drawing people running, so I downloaded this video: [link] and ran it through avidemux. I drew most of the frames of the first sequence (246 total) in order, just so I could practice valid running poses. They were just drawn in my sketchbook with around 20 per page. I couldn't flip/overlay to check how the frames would flow, so each was drawn without the previous or next frame in mind. After scanning the 11 pages, I got the idea to see how they'd animate. I put them all together with the great free program aseprite: [link] I'm sort of amazed they flow as well as they do, I only resized them if necessary. It's kind of interesting how much more consistent I get at the end! I wonder, is it still rotoscoping if I referenced every frame, but did no tracing? Eh, whatever.

To see what the frames look like in my sketchbook: [link]

I also recommend checking out my scraps if you're interested in some of my other recent doodles: [link]

I'm keeping busy. I hope you are too!

Thanks for looking! Kind regards to Tamila (the runner in the video I referenced) for giving me permission to share this with you all. Edit: Found out she has a deviantart.

Fun facts:

The frame numbers are what avidemux told me. Since the first 26 seconds or so are an introduction, I started on frame 796. (Which means the video is 30 FPS, not 24 )

I drew frames 796-923 in one night (June 20). (It took about four hours, including some internet breaks/snack breaks)

I drew frames 924-1040 the next night (June 21). (Took about four hours, including breaks.) I compiled the animation after sleeping on this day which took about two hours.

So if you're keeping track, that's about ten hours to get what would have been ten seconds of animation if it were running at 24 FPS. Not bad.

I had actually not slept much before day one, so I accidentally skipped frame 868, and then I guess to make up for it, I accidentally drew frame 877 twice.

I must have made a mistake somewhere else, since 1040-796+1 is 245 frames, not 246. (246 is the number of frames in the gif)

I drew a couple more frames than I actually planned to just to fill up the last page. (I wanted to stop at 1038, since at that point her steps were obscured by a wall)