GIF Two - Sloth Swinging

- (missing screen shots that accompanied text, sorry)
- This GIF - will feature my lazy sloth sleeping, and almost falling from the tree. i wanted him to wing and climb backup again.
- roughs - i plan on having a pivot point. - hope this works! - might be challenging but wanted to give it a try.
- using the same process. - painting my textures, scanning in and compiling digitally. for this one however i used a light box to create a different sloth for each movement.


- In heinsight, painting each of the drawn sloths by hand, was quite time consuming and perhaps unnecessary. - i could have added the textures digitally somehow? - scanning in the textures and applying to a seperatly drawn image?  i am aware that there are easier ways to attempt this n the future.
- This is my second attempt at creating a GIF, and I felt more confident in knowing how to do this successfully since it is my second attempt, and the first went quite smoothly. However, I created the movement differently this time, which presented quite a few challenges.
- The biggest problem, was making the sloths movement look natural. - although using a light box to change his positioning very gradually, i had mis judged how he would swing on the branch - the arms simply didn't move right - they needed to pivot. 
- Had to spend a lot of time trying to fix this. - using the lasso tool to separate the arms allowed me to re position. - took a lot of trial and error until getting it right.

- Finally reaching the completed GIF. So many layers! by the end of the process felt a little brain dead. although the movmemet is not as smooth as i would have liked - not quite how i envisaged, it was a big improvement form the start, and i felt i needed to move on in order to finish on time.
- Like the textures, and fur moving between each slide, - perhaps would have used less pen - perhaps keeping it to watercolour would have looked more natural.
- background a little busy? /not as refined? perhaps with all the textures it looks a little crowded. - could have been more subtle - or made the colours more differentiated? - does it look better without the trees?
Altered version;