I See Faces - Rough Gifs

Using a video of a dog running on Youtube as reference material, I broke down the positions a dog is in while it is running and then tried to simplify this in my sketchbook so the figure was appropriate for my character. To get each frame, I drew identical squares on numerous sheets of newsprint and layered them over each other to figure out what the position of the dog would be in the next frame. I think this was quite a simple way of doing this although I found it challenging as I had never done this before and I was kind of teaching myself as I went along. This first gif is just the motion of the dog. I simplified this down to ten frames of movement and two frames where the dog is out of the frame, so a total of twelve frames which should not be to challenging to produce. 

Storyboard

My initial plan was to have the dog sitting in the bottom right corner and then he runs and jumps up to grab the paper and then brings it back to where he was seated before. I manages to fit this sequence into twelve frames but as I start drawing the frames out properly, I realised that I would need a lot more frames than I initially thought. Instead of making this gif longer and more complex than it needs to be, I thought that the same idea could be achieved by the dog running into and out out of the frame - this means there is no need for the dog to return to its original position. 

I was happy with the movement of the dog but it as moving too quickly when I first composed the gif on Photoshop so I changed the duration of each frame to 0.1seconds. The jump looked strange at this speed so I reduced some of the frame times back to 'no delay' while the dog is jumping so that it shows he is moving faster. In the next gif I added a floor line, the bin and the scrunched up paper. 

I brought this print back from the mono printing workshop and incorporated it into my gif on Photoshop. I don't think this was my most successful print of the day but it was dry enough to bring back to the studio so I thought I would see what I could achieve with it. 

I like the texture of the print and I also like how the background is now the same in each frame. I don't think the waste paper bin is instantly recognisable but I am hoping some of my other prints will have been more successful. Before, the bin looked as if it was moving but now it looks stationary which is less distracting and the viewer can focus more on the dog and the ball of paper. I am looking forward to collecting my prints and selecting the best ones to include in my final gif.