Applied Animation// Animating with GIMP hurts me

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Over the Easter holidays I haven't been able to balance animating (very well) with having... well, a holiday and visiting my family. Instead of photoshop I've been using GIMP which is already downloaded onto my ALREADY over loaded laptop; and of course, it's the same basic software, you can do the same sort of things in it, but... slower... and it's often more confusing.  

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So when it came to beginning to draw up frames, I really really struggled at first... Onion skinning wasn't an option here. So I had to animate on loads of layers at the same time, with isn't something I'm used to doing...

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But at least, when drawing up the storyboard for this project I used GIMP, so it was just a case of going back to the original digital storyboards and 'tracing' over to refine the drawings. Which, is what I've been doing most of today... 

I think the few frames I've managed to produce in just under three hours are 'clean' enough. At least, I think they are... I also found out you can exsport GIFS in GIMP which was something I only thought software like photoshop could do! So here is a GIF of the animating I've done SO far...



I'm not sure if I need to drop in an inbetween frame or two to make it 'smoother' because it's a very FAST pull back as it is...