I have been watching this weirdo digging for a good 10 minutes to study the digging action. I found that I could not think about the action just in my head and this is actually an excellent reference because he is digging so hard for nothing.
After that I drew out some key actions of digging. To me, it is the most efficient way to learn to draw or to animate the action and I understand more about the movement of the body when drawing them out. The whole body move when digging especially the shoulder and the waist move viciously in the same direction with the spade.
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The action is very difficult to animate because every little details counts especially when he has the shortest arms and legs in the world. It is maddening to make him step on the spade and dig while making him look cool and strong.
I experiment the action with in different time line and pick the one looks the most natural. Most of the animating process is experimenting the timing of the action since I am not really good at it and this is why computer is good as the model can change anything just by clicking whereas you have to draw another frame when animating traditionally.
Finally with a lot of care and time, he is not acting stupidly but shovelling bravely.
As it is mentioned before, the background is going to be added on at the end of all the animation through Aftereffect so I decided to render the sequence in PNG which allow any background to apply to. I am quite happy with the result but it is really not neat so it is not that perfect. However, since me and Joe are barely up the schedule, I decide to finish the key actions as soon as possible and go back for cleaning up if available. If I could improve this scene, the thing definitely need improve is the shoulder and the feet because they really do not move much which make the action stiff.
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