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Cat Animation

Final Animation:



Artist Statement:

For this piece, I wanted to draw something from scratch, and I wanted to do something with animals. One of my favourite animals are cats so I tried my best to animate it. I drew 8 different cats in different positions while walking, using google for reference. I used the pen tool in illustrator to create my cat silhouettes and then dragged them into Photoshop. I actually didn't use the tween tool, instead moving each one by hand to make it flow better and actually look like the cat is walking across the screen. Then, I took the grass stock photo and zoomed in on it. I added a filter on top of it to look more cartoony / more like art instead of real as the car is small and cartoony.

For the tagbrush, I dragged my transparent PNG brush file into photoshop and made it fade away by messing around with the tween tool along with the opacity. For the credits I tried my best to make it look like rolling movie credits. I used the tween tool for this as well and made it move from the bottom of my screen all the way to the center with my title, name, class and the term. 



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Comments

  1. Amanda PattersonMay 4, 2023 at 11:35 AM

    Very cool! It's clear that you put a lot of work into this. The animation looks very fluid and I like how you added the grass in the background.

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