Two more wacky wavy animations were done yesterday. I need to finish up painting one of them.Now that the front row is in motion I am realizing that there are a bunch of legs I places in the original illustration that do not line up with actual characters. I am if I should leave this as a painted element held cell of keep adding characters to get those legs to move.
There is another whole background contingent of wacky wavy characters and I may simplify their movements. I might just move their arms in a subtle way the way the scene was first animated. Today I will animate the outer most wacky wavy guys. The end goal is to feel like you can see a massive crowd going back into Times Square. The negative spaces need to be filled to make it clear this is a massive crowd. I had the same situation with Centaurs running down the street. I solved that scene with a moving painted dark crowd to represent the other Centaurs but I don’t think that will work in this case.
At some point I will only be animating what can be seen. So far I have animated each character separately and on may partly hide another. Once characters are only partly seen the animation might be done on mass. In two days I will start teaching virtual classes again, so production will slow down. This is probably the last scene I am animating, so I am not rushing to finish quickly.
On the COVID front we might be at the peak of the second largest wave of the pandemic. About 1 in 3 people are infected. 2 million people are being infected each day. 2000 people are dying from COVID each week. Repeat infections do not build immunity, rather immunity is being destroyed much in the way HIV destroys immunity. Good luck out there stay safe.