#frame by frame

This is an animation study of Childish Gambino’s This is America music video. I found the way he dances and moves very interesting and I wanted to do an exercise kind of like life drawing but with animation. I would find the key poses in the video and then do a life drawing of the pose. At the end I went in and started adding all the breakdowns and inbetweens. This helps me draw more and learn more about the way things move.

Now that the Teen Titans Go movie is out (http://www.teentitansgo-movie.com/?bu…) I can finally share my work on the movie. I got to design & animate this entire Lion King sequence (minus 3 shots). I put my name in the corner of all shots I animated. The 3 without my name were done by Disney vets Bruce Smith & Chris Wahl. Chris Wahl was actually an animator on the original Lion King (Mufasa). It was an honor getting to meet them both and work with them. I animated this sequence in Toonboom Harmony. I had zero experience with the program up until the Teen Titans Movie, but it was a great opportunity to learn. I do not own the rights to characters in this video, I was just the animator. The rights belong to DC comics and Warner Brothers Entertainment. Follow my work on Instagram www.instagram.com/hayk_animation