On past Friday night, I experimented a short animated image of my parents to explore how it would look when a line work is done from purely digital, in this case Photoshop. As a part of my preparation into further execution process of the Manifesto project that needs to be done in 3 different methods. Because before this, normally I would draw on papers and then scan into the computer to finish the piece.
I used photoshop for this animated piece, started with a sketch and then adding layers onto it. I always thought I won’t like doing it in pure digital, but this time I opened myself up to new possibilities. The reason is simply also because the tools are not quite available for me now since I don’t have a scanner ready with me at my flat.
Along the process, I tried to adapt what I like with traditional hand drawing into the image, for example, I tend to not erase much and let the lines I did not wish to be there remain, or how I tend to stick to colors or tools that still remind me of pencils, pens or pastel-colored paints.
The result is quite satisfied to me since it doesn’t look that ‘digital’ to me which I’m not quite attracted to. Also, I tried to challenge my self within my own limitation of working with reference in moving those bits I can like the eyes without losing a realistic representations.
I experimented the animated image with different speed to find the right amount of speed. If it’s too fast it becomes too dizzy to read, if it’s too slow, it loses its liveliness.
no delay 
0.18s delay 
0.5s delay
So I finalised it with a delay around 0.2 seconds with also a pause at the end to add more realistic touch onto it.
I would like to expand it more into a longer animation after this.
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