in retrospect i shouldve made dark shadow do the grim matchstick thing

Double King reference holy shit

In some ways. I always find it easier to place a line how I want it to go on paper.

But paper will never beat the convenience of being able to see your animation go and correct the timing as you're working on it without having to scan or flip a few pages manually.

I have animated digitally but I haven't had the chance to go super in depth with character animation for it before for an assignment.

We have a scanner at Uni that lets me run them through in stacks to scan them all at once. However, I needed to make the pegholes visible, so it took some prep for each page beforehand. A couple hours in total to scan it all, I think!

I sorted them all into folders, mostly out of necessity to keep them organized. I wish I had a shelf or something, or a filing cabinet, though! They're all kind of lounging in a bag at the moment.

Also it has themes of loss and companionship or whatever

As someone with a German stepfather, 100%.

He's so chubby he looks like he's from a Donald Duck cartoon he has that Mickey Mouse Pete energy

Instructions unclear drew Killer Bean