Tug
is a character animation exercise grown all out of proportion. The original
idea was simply to show a character interacting with weight, and expanded
into two characters pitting their weight against each other. I wanted
the character design simple and archetypal so that the two's respective
roles would read immediately, hence the bright colors and exaggerated
Gumby-esque forms.
In a way this animation has three characters, because I couldn't find
a dynamic rope sytem I liked, and ended up animating it by hand. |