Monkey Jam! Loop De Loop

I made a looping monkey playing the steel drums for this month's LoopDeLoop which was themed 'Instruments'. The follow through movements took me some time to figure out in the roughs stage:

This is also the first time I fully animated something in TVPaint (though I did use After Effects to add some subtle moving leaf shadows) and I'm pleased with how it turned out! I'm hoping this marks the first of many TVPaint animations as I believe it'll be useful to me as a 2D animator.

The loop made it onto the site

What worked well:

• As I'm not strong with colours, I colour picked a Rayman Origins background which I thought worked really well for this background
• The use of arcs and follow through on the monkey movements
• The smears when the monkey swaps sides

What could be improved:

• An extra frame or two might've helped the transition clearer between the sides when the monkey swaps his legs
• A few extra background sounds could've been added for the jungle ambience and the monkey swapping sides.