Ravebattle1-WIP

Here's a little preview of Rave Battle in progress, just to let you know what to expect, and to prove that I AM working on the project.

It's unfinished and has no music yet, but I thought it might be interesting for people who want to see my animation technique, because the second half of the animation is a really good example of pose-by-pose animation.

Basically, the black and white section is animated on every 4th frame (goes at 25fps) and those are the "key poses". Later on, I'll fill in the middle frames in order to make said section as smooth as the coloured bits.

You can see that for slower segments, I resort to tweening, in which it's important to break a character up into many layers and symbols.

Anyway, the two characters you see here are the boxing cat Lee (who is no longer a fan pokemon) and his green squirrel partner Chance. They are sparring in this scene, and working on a routine for a big competition (even though it's pretty full on)

Lee is a serious type of person, and his composure allows him to flow with elegance on the dance floor and while fighting. His ability to move his fists at incredible speeds makes his upper body very versatile. He's very popular and has a lot of fans-the mansion they're fighting in belongs to him.

Chance is more of a rookie than Lee. He only took up martial dancing recently, and he is practically unknown, however, since his partnership with Lee, he is destined to become more popular as the two of them compete in double-leagues. Chance is a great defensive player, but his acrobatic style makes him good with offense as well. He sometimes uses his imagination to make up for his lack of experience, coming up with spectacular improvised attacks and dance moves out of nowhere.

Please don't tell me that this animation needs sound/longer/colour, because it's NOT FINISHED!! Rather than that, please give critique on my technique and process.

Rave Battle and all related characters are (C) Ryanide 2006, do not distribute or steal.