Animated - Bunny Workout 01

I did a thing.

My first serious attempt at animation, wooo!

Yesterday I decided to finally give animating a go. I've been contemplating it for a long time now and have always pushed it away from myself for various reasons. Whenever I saw people turning pictures into animated ones, I was excited to try and do it myself. But my motivation always got dragged down when I thought about how much work would be necessary to take a picture of mine, rework it to be suited for animation - layers wise and such - and then start the animating process on top of that.

But now I finally grasped the opportunity and created a picture from scratch, solely with the purpose of animating it. I figured "If the worst happens and things don't work out, at least it will still be a nice picture."

A lot of times people start out animation by doing just one character doing something really simple, like an idle animation. But of course me being stupid and overly enthusiastic, I went ahead and animated a tiger bundled together with a bunny, connected through the magic of a purple double dildo. Go figure. :P

So yeah if you guys were wondering: This is what became of the idea suggestion poll! ;3 This made a perfect starting point and I'm very happy that you guys support me. Thanks to you this was made possible!

I used the program called DragonBones Pro to animate this. It is a free program that is suprisingly intuitive and easy to use. Downside to it is, that it's relatively unknown so there is not much support out there if you want to look something up. Sometimes I ran into problems and couldn't find any answer by googling. That was frustrating, but I can see why. DragonBones Pro is pretty buggy. By the time I was finished and had my animation exported and ready, I wanted to go back and change something, only to realize that the program had basically destroyed my animation rig, so it became unusable. So that was a bummer. Maybe I will try to give other programs a try. I have heard of "Spine" which is supposed to be superior, but costs money. If you guys have any experience with it or other recommendations, I'd love to hear them. :3

So yeah, I'm really happy with how this turned out. 

Hope you guys like it!

Enjoy!