I spent a little while figuring out how to work with animating this project, it ended up being vastly more time consuming and challenging than I’d expected. Yet, I think that’s my fault.  I thought I’d try and use Photoshop’s built in animation tools.

Big mistake. 

Eventually I came to my senses and just used After Effects. The result’s alright, I added some squash & stretch to the eyes which really makes them ‘pop’ in a nice way, and I think I’ll be keeping that in mind for the full piece.  

Otherwise, I’m going to have to figure something out with the flames. More frames need to be generated, of course, but I think I’ll try tweening some kind of transformation between them so it doesn’t like to jittery and weird. Although, this is subjective, and it’ll ultimately depend on the rest of the group’s opinion.

Also, next time I think I’ll make some frames with the flames 'breaking away’ from the rest, to maybe give it a more natural feel.   

There’s also a flame frame in there that looks bad, I’ll have to be more diligent in watching for that.  

Mitchell