602 - Development of GIF Handler

After such a good response to my first GIF to be featured on my email handlers and my website, etc.. I decided I would add to this and consider starting to create a little series of these to be used in different situations when addressing professionals in industry. 

To stay consistent with my research for COP, I decided a funny action representing me would be me drinking and cheers-ing a beer! This would then not only reflect me as an individual but some of my hobbies and passions too - acting as good conversation starters when in contact.

By researching craft beer through COP I knew I was going to be reaching out to numerous professionals in that industry so wanted it to be relevant to them!

I used the same process as last time - by screenshotting various stages of a video of me cheers-ing. 

But this time I wanted to experiment less with the representing the layers of shadows and colour to create depth - I wanted to try a more sketchy illustration style which is slightly more stripped back - with solid blocks of colour which are then contrasted and chipped into by line drawing and detailing..

  

The were many more frames which made up the movement which need to be considered for this one. 

- This added time to the process of creating it, but I saved it where I was experimenting with the new, more stripped back style.

To finalise the gif and keep it more consistent with the last one I have done, I added the moving grain effect to give it that added detail and depth, drawing it back to that analogue, grungey style which is present through all my illustrations..

The details were predominantly through the face and creases in the shirt - they develop the animation nicely, adding the realism of movement without shadow.

When I took the two different animations to a crit group, there were mixed opinions as to which were peoples favourite. They are both cheeky and representative of my forward and confident nature, but people were torn between the added levels of detail through the coloured shadows in the first one and then the more stripped back line-drawing style in this one - Both feel very professional and it was suggested that seen as I can produce work at a quicker rate and can be more free with my vision of the movement with the line drawing process - maybe I should push this and experiment with the more current sketchy style which you see online so much now, and then the shadows, colours and textures can play a part later in the process if I see fit.