ANIMATION

Recently, I had a very close look at TailsTube. If you are not familiar with it, here's one of the short episodes on YouTube:

Now, upon close inspection, it seems to me that this was a LOW BUDGET production. Lots of mistakes exist, the most obvious ones are the fact that all the characters have a touch of strabismus (for those who don't know that's lazy eye syndrome).

Further analysis shows that it was done in vector format, and most likely with Adobe Animate. This got me thinking- surely I can do the same, and maybe a little better? Well sure enough, its viable. It is a LOT of work but in the end it will be a very fitting format to my YouTube channel videos.

So I have done an animation test, and sure enough, it's incredibly do-able. The initial learning curve is there, I've been through frame-by-frame animation but this is done differently.

I am currently pumping out assets. I finished all the assets on 26 March. I am doing import operations of several hundred files into the animation software which will inevitably take a bit more than a week as I figure out the optimal way of doing things.

Here is my test animation: