I See Faces: Incompleted Gifs

I had a fair few ideas for GIFs, one being meghan a knife wielding zombie killer and a merman jumping into the sea. 

I drew meghan during the first few weeks development and decided I wanted to bring her forward as it seemed like a nice GIF development to me. 

I really struggled bringing Meghan from paper to photoshop, my original character design was quite detailed and it was hard to get her body movements right. 
Eventually I gave up on my original character and redesigned her, keeping the idea that she was zombie killing in her dress a theme and keeping the original stickman designs to figure out how she would move. 

This is the final (unfinished) GIF of Meghan, I think i would have had to do a lot of frames to get her more fluid and that bringing in a second character would have been quite hard especially being as this was my first time creating a GIF. 

The thing I struggled most with was making her loop seamlessly, I think rather than drawing her digitally I should have gone back to basics and draw her out in pencil and scanned her in (as I did with Elizabeth). As that would have made her more consistant (rather than the small but distracting differences you can see below). 

If I could do this again, I would definetly spend more time in developing media's as I think it would have helped me rather than trying to do it all digitally, i think it was too much of a challenge at this point. The "into the woods" gif and "Elizabeth" worked so well because of the textures they had inserted into them and because I brought them into photoshop rather than creating them inside photoshop. 

I would like to come back to Meghan and develop her again when I have some spare time. 

The second gif came from the idea of my mermaid pages, I liked the idea of a Aqua hit man so I wanted to bring him forward as a GIF. However this didn't work out so well as I had to keep the character small to allow him to run across the screen and I couldn't put the detail in that I wanted. Other than that the way the figure moves is quite accurate so i was fairly pleased with that. He was also the first GIF i had made that was over 6 frames long, I also think he loops quite nicely.