Flour Sack Jump

Character Design and Rough animation by John Auguste

Animated in Clip Studio Paint

Project Description:

This is the second portion of my first project in Animation Basics. This is hand-drawn, frame by frame animation made in clip studio paint. The main focus of this exercise was to demonstrate movement, weight and emotion using a simple character.

Development Process

References

Character Design

I used this video as reference for the flip that the flour sack performs and the framing of the high bar. I also used kitchen materials as inspiration to create the gymnastics bar that the flour sack is swinging on

This is my quick thumbnail sketches of different design ideas for a the flour sack. I mostly final animation on the third design but added a mid section to the flour sack to make the overall design closer to a male athlete body type.