10b. 2026-02-15 / index

at times in the previous year i played with blender and made some effort to get good with it. or get the basics, with it. probably i will return to this one day but in two incongruous #sesh's of learning, i did not get far. suspected that the act of learning was on the way to accommodating the #grindset mindset and we did not really have the skill or will to continue.

so instead, frame by frame. this is our first-such animation at all. never drawn sequenced images and made it into motion before. needless to say, i am happy with this small piece. ^^

our number one influence in animation is the artist slate and their piece "Hot Commodity" (e621, furaffinity). it probably shows.

this is animated in krita. we brushed our teeth and just prayed krita had animation features at all. fortunately it does. took some getting used to but all is well, we can handle onion skinning, we can adjust timings, we can use multiple layers, etc. "document information" reports 1 hour 33 minutes.

initial work was crude. motivating though.

stuff i enjoyed learning

• timings. phrase "call and response" came to mind at one point and that's not exactly accurate, but i enjoyed playing anticipation/payoff. the overall framerate is arbitrary but the frame-spacing is very on purpose

• thinking about onion skinning not as a tool to "accurately" transition from one frame to next, rather as an aid to gauge how different two frames actually are. it's more literal / to the point about the tool, and the tool is just a tool.

• physicality. lot to learn here. but the feelings of lines is the imaginary third in expressing motion and i want to play with it lots. (real thirds are the "actual" motion that is imagined in the head from these lines, i.e. position and time) texture of what i can put on a piece of paper is something that makes me so happy to find this perhaps accesible and do not believe i can find in 3D

• doing one (1) in-between frame. it's the shortest apparent main frame
• energy lines squiggles small things in fast frames
• wolf (winging it)

i am aware that a storyboard is ultimately a comic and that it takes as much effort to do an animation as a comic, multiplied by poses then by frames, and fit over timing rather than composition. but i think maybe animation is more rewarding. for the animal brain. this is alive. i suppose i just do not fill in the same blanks between panel 87 and panel 88. or between 2 and 3 and 4.

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