After the egg and bread gif I wanted to start afresh and create something improving on my previous mistakes. With this gif I decided to not have the characters simply standing alone but put in a background so that they do not seem out of place. I also drew double the amount of frames for this - 20 instead of 10 - which I think has made a huge amount of difference.
I found that with having much more frames I was able to adjust the timings on photoshop more without the animation looking really slow and jolty. I decided that within the gif the small cactus poking the other one was the key moment and so started slowing down the wind up to this to create tension. I think that this has worked well and brings emphasis to this small little moment.
I have been debating what media to use now to colour these frames in and create the final result. I went back to ink and coloured pencil because they were two mediums that I used in initially creating these characters, and that I thought at that time worked really well. In trying both, I think I would prefer to use coloured pencil. I think that ink is more suited to fluid movement and big shapes whether using coloured pencils will give me the detail I need in the facial expressions. I also really like how this worked in my egg and bread gif, and think that this childish and playful aesthetic - as well as the subtle movement - will similarly work well with these characters.
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