In this video I will show you how to animate an accurate character rotation. This exercise can teach you how to draw better by practicing one of its most important principles: Solid Drawing. Even if you’re not an animator, animating a turn-around animation while trying to be faithful to the original character design forces you to feel its volume and can help you absorb the original artist’s style!
For this I’ll be animating turns of Gwen Stacy from Into the SpiderVerse, and Akko Kagari from Little Witch Academia. These two present their own challenges and differences that I’ll explain in this tutorial. Remember to use the hashtag #MercuRotation in any social media when posting your own results. Best of luck!
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00:00 Solid Drawing
00:31 First Steps
01:27 Base Sphere Guide
02:07 Importing Your References
02:30 Tracing
04:03 Adding Ellipses
05:12 Fixing Proportions in Keyframes
06:40 Symmetric vs Asymmetric Features
07:23 Inbetweens
08:58 Coloring
10:41 Shadows
11:13 Shading
12:03 Best Reference Sources
12:32 Final Animation
12:48 Outro
Remember: “Every line you draw, you are one line closer to your dream!”
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