Tiff Run Cycle

I made this yesterday in an effort to learn how to animate using Photoshop.  I ended up cheating a little and used Flash to do the actual animation and lineart (just so I could catch and fix any goof-ups I made more easily), but the shading and final composition had to be done completely in Photoshop.

It's got a couple odd ends here and there, but for the exercise that it was, I'm very happy with it.  Makes me really appreciate how hard it must have been to make the art and animation in the original show, and it also makes me excited to see what I could use this animation technique for in the future.  Animating her was tough as well, as I ended up having to forget a few animation tricks I usually use in my work to make her move more choppy like in the show.

Kirby: Right Back At Ya! © Nintendo, HAL Laboratory Inc.