Yesterday I started working up a little sketch to use for animation practice. The goal was to make it a simple but refined character study with a parallaxing background in the span of two days, probably just the finished pencils. Well... It's the end of day two and I have my character, the backgrounds, and I decided I needed a decent values layout. What's missing? That whole animation part! I estimate it'll take another full day of work to rough in the animation, and I might leave the character just a little bit sketchier than I had originally planned.

What do you guys think? If there's enough interest to see it though I'll bring this concept all the way up through to a finished color animation test. And oh, it's going to be a bumpy road! (hint hint.)

The style of this piece is a major departure from my normal work but it's rather fun!

I'm hoping that building up some animation chops with 2d pieces like this one will build some excitement for the game development.

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