OUIL406- Visual Communication- Development

Once I had decided on what I wanted to do for my handmade GIF. I went on to develop the image and how the final outcome would look. The development of the actual image didnt take very long, as I like the smple handmade nature of how I initially drew it, I think the biggest challenge for me on this particular GIF is how the pen will be animated.

I thought that the best way to find out how the pen would function is to simply draw the lines and see how the pen moved in my hand. However, I then realised that because the pen is to have arms, it would move much differently to how it would if  the pen was being drawn by myself. I went on to look at similar actions in real life.

Gymnasts walking on their hands give the image of comfortability of walking on their hands and will provide a great reference to use for the animation of the pen.