This friday, our quarter project is due. We had three options to choose from this quarter. I chose to finish my idle animation because I didn't want to have to work with anybody else and it was already started and I could pick up where I left off. I thought that this would be the easiest project to complete but I ran into a few problems on the way.
The first problem I found was the moving paw. I realized that I had to make the paw come from behind the head and nose, overlap the nose, and go back behind the head. I thought I could make the head a clipping mask but I didn't remember how to do that so I traced over each frame with the pen tool. The second problem was the color. When I was making the lines, I was focused more on the animation than the colors I had to add. I figured I could just color the frames individually in a layer under the lines. This ended up being a time consuming and tedious process. Also, with the way I placed the layers, I had to carefully paint the brown colors in order for it to not noticeably cover the other lines under the layer. I had to do this for the tail and the moving paw. Another problem I had was with the time. I didn't know the time requirements for the project until Wednesday. This wasn't that big of a problem because I could just loop the animation 2 or 3 times. In conclusion:
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