Meowch! Loop De Loop

The Loop de Loop theme this month is Whoops, and I thought I'd use this opportunity to recycle an old rotoscope from first year that I never ended up using. This time I chose to keep it a cat.

Original unfinished rotoscope animation

The finished loop looks like this:

It made it onto the site (though Neil temporarily misspelled my name to everyone's amusement before it was corrected). This is the first time I tried out the aesthetic of blurring the background and I like how it turned out, I think I'll end up applying it to more animations in the future.

What worked well:

• Taking out the outside linework on the cat
• The simple bird animation in the window
• Cutting down the actual movement compared to the original rotoscope
• Using a colour palette created from pixellating an image of a kitchen
• Blurring the background for focus

What could be improved:

• The tail seems to curl from the wrong part of the tail at one part near the beginning
• The ending smear turned out a little messier than I'd hoped