Following on from last week, we had to use our bouncy ball animations to create little bouncing characters! This meant using layers on top of the previously animated layers to follow through another aspect of overlapping action. 

I started simple, with a little hat on my ball.


Fancy hat ball

Then.. I gave my ball a little tail, following where the arcs would be each time I drew it. Then added a few more frames to the ball at the end, so when I add more features he can have a little personality.
Tail Ball

And then... I gave my ball some little eyes so he could blink.


Blinky Ball
Then he got some floppy ears!
Floppy Ear Ball
And then I realised I could use the technique from when I added the eyes, making the drawing a symbol and following it through with onion skin layers- this took some trial and error to make the movement look right... But eventually my ball got a muzzle!
Mouth Ball
I forgot to add the ground in, so he could actually land somewhere...




Dog Ball
And boom! My little bouncing dog ball animation!