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 The puppet test for me was the easiest one of all. During my time working with stop motion, this principle is what we used for our final project. I wanted to put in a little bit of "me" in this and wanted to make it look appealing by adding colors and tiny details like the neon flicker and his foot-stamping to the beat. I added 25% on all of the ease in and outs to make the head bob a little bit more smoothly to the music he is listening to.

 The walk cycle was a fun project. I enjoyed being able to create a loop and be able to fine-tune a stylistic walk that made it feel smooth. To add to the effect, I wanted to include a parallax, from a background I designed in photoshop, and play a little bit with the shades of black to give it the misty look that you get when a place is far away. My next move would have been to work on the river and get some action going in there as well.

 The head turn created the biggest challenge for me as I can draw faces, but I'm very inefficient with it due to lack of practice. I wanted to add hair but I spent most of my time trying to figure the eyes out.

 With the pantomime, I dedicated more time to making it functional as an animation rather than cleaning it up. However, if allowing myself more time, I would definitely fix the graphical blunders. I always am very excited to learn, understand, and apply motion by frame, like the hangtime of a jump or a kicked ball.

  In this project, I've started doing outside research so that I could look for poses and incorporate them into my drawing. Also, I drew these with the possibility of animating them in mind. This was a very odd way for me to think of a character.