Violeta/Wioleta's walk cycle.
To get the movement of the skirt and her gait right, I filmed myself walking in a skirt and combat boots for reference. The laces of my own boots are too long and need to be wrapped around the ankle to avoid tripping, and I incorporated this detail into Violeta's boots to reflect her inexperience as a witch (having big shoes to fill) and her cautious personality.
Forest Background.
Inspired by the flat color backgrounds of classic Polish cartoons like Bolek i Lolek, and missing the texture of the pencil and charcoal brushes I typically use in Procreate, I digitally painted this background to be used with the walk cycle.
Cartwheeling Scraggle.
Scraggle gets bored while taking a stroll through the forest and gets too distracted doing cartwheels and handstands to notice that the Great Witch is up to no good. He's not the best look out.
I watched videos of people doing cartwheels on YouTube for reference on the key poses, then added more in-betweens wherever needed, and added some wobbly hesitation as he reaches the fully upside down position to add a feeling of weight to him.
Inbetweening, fixing the lip sync, & clean up
My professor suggested adding more inbetweens and adding a few frames of Scraggle coming to a stop to make a nicer, less abrupt transition into the next sequence (the cartwheel).
I used the first frame I colored to make the background suit the camera angle and to make sure that the colors of the characters looked nice together with those of the background.
Once I got the recordings from my voice actors, I was able to make more progress on the project and get a better sense of what the finished short would look and sound like.
