After 8 hours of teaching online students, I only had the energy to add several arms to one of the wacky wavy characters. I actually am starting to enjoy doing the overlapping action on the arms. I am starting to better understand how they blow in the breeze. Adding the fabric fringe fingers is my favorite part since they bend with the action.
I want to add several more to this front row to fill in the negative shapes between characters. In the original illustration I added partial bodies and legs in those spots just as filler. There are bodies without heads just to fill in the space. I can’t get away with that in the animation so I need a better solution. One arm is sort of dangling all alone so I will need to link that to a moving character.
The end is in sight but I will not finish today. There are a whole lot more characters that I want to animate in the distance. I will simplify that animation a bit playing down the waving motion, but it will still be lots of work. Today I will find out if the Berlin Film Festival wants to screen this film. Fingers are crossed.