From the course: Animation Foundations: Drawing Cartoon Characters

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Drawing cartoon effects for animation

Drawing cartoon effects for animation

From the course: Animation Foundations: Drawing Cartoon Characters

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Drawing cartoon effects for animation

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- Now let's look at natural effects. In animation traditionally when we said effects, we mean natural effects; smoke, steam, water, mud, fire, anything that's elemental, our shadows, even sparkles, that kind of thing. So these three images show you the general drawing sequence that you could follow when animating effects or just drawing even just drawing a single image. You start out with the basic construction form. You don't go in on the right side just drawing that. Like a character, an effect has a physical structure. So let's take a look at this in more detail. We'll just go in a little tighter so there's our first, and you'll notice in this case I've drawn it with a figure eight loop. And if you remember from a previous movie we drew a dress with a similar pattern. I could also have made it circular or varied this, but this is a good shape to use. And on top of that structure then I've drawn very loosely this splash pattern. So I favored more of the splash on the far side to…

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