For my looping animation project, I wanted to create a unique narrative about a baker who had recently lost her feline companion.
In the story, she is struggling with grief, and in her saddest moments, she decides that the best cure for sadness is to return to your roots in what you love – in her case, she of course decides to bake! Following her passion, she gets into the kitchen with the main ingredient of love, and creates her new companion, well, a much “doughier” version!
Please watch ‘The Baker’s Cat” below~
- 72 Frames in total
The Process:
Starting out with an idea of how I wanted to utilize my concept I right away went into Procreate and created a really messy storyboard based on what I intended to be the first loop, the exposition. Below I’ve also attached my notes on ideas, and the 5 steps I needed to cover.
*Sorry for the lighting*
Following my notes and pretty messy storyboarding, I polished my ideas a bit more and made all 5 scenes:
The Loops:
Based on my storyboards, I began to draw my frames and create the loops. I worked on polishing and playing with transitions for added effect
Loop 1 – Exposition:
Loop 2 – Rising Action:
Loop 3 – Climax:
Loop 4 – Falling Action:
Loop 5 – Resolution
Full Animation, without restriction on frame count:
Reflection:
I did enjoy this project a lot, and I think I had a generally easy process because I tried to maintain a simple art style and a relatively common concept of grief and healing (of course, with a bizarre twist). I think if I did this project again, I’d go more into finalizing the animation. I struggled quite a bit with the idea I had of adding sounds and music, and I think it is due to animating completely in Procreate, with a very simple 1 frame per second. Most of the software I tried to use, such as Stop Motion, wasn’t able to provide the control I wanted, and I dove into Adobe Premiere Pro, which was too much for a single-minute video. I haven’t given up, though, on adding sound and music; hopefully, I can have an update to this post soon!