I decided to start animating probably the most complicated scene in the COVID film yesterday. I started with the larger boy in the foreground since I figure other figures might be partially hidden behind him as he runs. A run is much like a fast walk only both feet leave the ground for several frames. I completed two runs and have 8 more to do.
By the time I complete this scene I should be more of an expert on animating runs. Some of the runners disappear behind the beach barricades set up on screen left. The challenge comes because I have to animate backwards from the final frame of each run as it appears in the illustration. I break each run into 4 keys, the contact pose, down position, passing position, and the up pose.
Finding the right stride is a challenge. Once I have one section of the run complete I can duplicate frames to add the other strides. There are about 3 strides that can happen in the one second of animation. There is another scene similar to this with Ron DeathSantis with children running so I will probably roll right into that shot once this is complete. I suspect this will take several days to complete so you might see it again. You can’t rush a run.