Richard Bell's nature sketchbook since 1998
With animation, it’s so important to understand the motivation and emotional state of your character. Obviously an aerial predator is swooping low over the coop and the little red hen is raising the alarm.
Either that or it’s trying to lay an extra large egg.
Animation drawn in Clip Studio Paint using an Apple Pencil on an iPad Pro.
After the unpredictable floppy rabbit’s ears in my last animation, I decided to try a pencil stage with this alarmed chicken.
This wasn’t drawn directly in pencil in my sketchbook as suggested here – although a flick-book would be fun to try – it’s the pencil tool in Clip Studio Paint. I shall now move on to the inking stage.
