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If I have a piece of animation more complicated than a simple set of drags or nods, I don't feel comfortable without thumbnailing the shit out of it. I love things that have a ton of shapes moving at once, and I want smart graphic shapes and thrusts to be obvious before I have to draw it in disconnected fashion. And I like such subtle thrusts (who says you can't accent dialogue with a nipple, or an iliac crest, or that muscle that hunches your neck up?) that it's hard to see otherwise.

This was an idea I had that I abandoned due to hand fatigue. A short animation test (small GIF) of Serene Wyatt's (:iconcolonel-strawberry:) Gatordog :icongatordog: Anabelle and her puellile companion.
Emerging from the water, Annabelle shakes the droplets off in canine fashion; her tail thwacks a dead log and stirs a dragonfly. After barking fails to scare the beast off, she tries to catch it in her gatory jaws, only to thrust herself over the water and into a wincing bellyflop. And Gatorgirl, to the side, laughs.
What I loved about this was not only the movement, but the fact that it loops. I could make a gif of this and it works perfectly.
(My puelliebrity has been greatly enhanced by reading Christa Wolf's "A Model Childhood." Seriously, that book is amazing.)

Serene, my wrist hurts like hell, I'm feeling your pain. At the moment, my animation is limited to storyboarding a small short and a little timing practice with felt and yarn. (You want I should post some still frames, because I have no clue how to upload a video file.)
(Judging by my family I'm at risk for arthritis. I often feel pain in my toes as the joints crack, likewise with my elbows. It worries me. Anybody have ways to help?)
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.... I want to see this in motion right.now. 83