A little bit of animation. I’m doing a lecture where I talk about drawing and animating facial expressions. The students will have 1 hour or one-and-a-half hours to do a really basic expression change.

The finished animation took a couple of days, but the bottom .gif shows the keys and breakdowns I could get done in one hour. My students probably won’t be able to get as much done, but it gives me an idea about their time limits.

Using Spinel because I’m actually quite happy with her as a design, with her silly triangle head. Her big eyes and lips make her pretty good for expressions, though her fringe maybe not so much. I cheated by doing that anime thing of showing the eyes through the hair.