1st step: using the video clip to very roughly sketch a few frames on top of it to get a feel for some key poses as they appear. Of course, being from Tiktok the clip is in portrait orientation, so most of the resulting video is white, but I think you get the idea anyways (sound on) #animation

Inspired by Dong Chang showcasing 3 different kinds of smears I reproduced his demo of a baseball swing

Top left: no smear
Top right: large smear hanging way back
Bottom left: 3 echoes of a small smear
Bottom right: straight lines replaced by ziggy ones

OpenToonz 1080p 24fps 24 frames

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Finally, all cel layers cleaned up and colorized, the full composite animation is finished

BG: background painting
A: Miu-chan's body
B: her eyes
C: her tail

Krita 720p 24fps 72 frames on threes

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Finally the wagging tail on cel C rounds up the rough animation. It took a fair bit of work since despite onion skinning the tail kept wandering around. I had to draw all 24 frames by hand as Krita didn't behave as expected by copying&pasting frames

Krita 720p 24fps 72 frames on threes

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With B cell drawn in, Miu-chan will blink every 3 secs. Looks like straight out of one of those creepy point-and-click adventure games

Krita 720p 24fps 72 frames

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Another simple exercise. Instead of morphing two very different shapes I use motion to hide switching between them

OpenToonz 720p 24fps 84 frames on threes

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Watched a blinking tutorial today and this is my adaptation. I used a model sheet of Ritsuko Akagi from Neon Genesis Evangelion and animated a blink both on threes (Anime style) and twos (Western style)

OpenToonz 720p 24fps 48 frames

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Continuing from the seaweed exercise, this is a quick study of Rei Ayanami's hair blowing in the wind. No anime can get away without blowing hair. Face, left and right part of the hair are in separate cel layers, hair parts slightly out of sync

OpenToonz 720p 24fps 48 frames keys only