Today I am starting animation on the monkeys fighting over toilet paper. Animation of the toilet paper waving in the breeze and tails is already done. I imported the tail animation from the previous version of the scene and now realize it is blurry. I will need to redraw the tails to sharpen up the lines.
I will start the animation with the baby monkey holding the toilet paper. The hands, feet and head will be held cells but I will go in and fully animate the arms and body. The plan is to have the monkey leaning forward and then rear back when another monkey leaps for the toilet paper. This is a very short scene at just over one second and it has the camera zooming in. I might calm down the zoom if the animation turns out well.
There is a lot of scribbling and cross hatching in the monkey’s fur. I am debating if I will replicate this texture throughout the animation or simplify it. Since there are about a dozen monkeys I will be working on this scene for days.