From the course: 2D Animation: Animate Flying Creatures
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Tiny birds
- [Instructor] The wings of a hummingbird usually move too fast to be seen as anything other than a blur. Very occasionally I've seen one where it'll just hover very slowly, you can finally see the wings in which case it just moves fairly much (laughs) like a regular bird. But when it's doing its thing it's like a gigantic insect. So let's take a look at this. If we look at the frame by frame breakdown it looks something like this. Now this kind of animation in the traditional era used to be done by using a technique called dry brush, and the painters would flick in the cel painting department and the animator would like sketch in on paper, roughly where the main shape should be. But then one of the artists in the cel painting department will get a brush and load it up with paint, and then very, very lightly just flick it over the cel. So you got a painterly version of these, speed lines or blur lines, like their version of motion blur. So, I find that's a very useful technique if you…
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