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A2: Flip Book

Hamsters




 Hamsters is a short flip book animation about, as the title obviously states, two hamsters. I wanted characters that were simple in design and would be easy enough to draw repetitively. There was not really much inspiration or thought to the original idea. I had just decided I wanted to draw something cute and this was how it started off. I have a habit of trying to involve some sort of story into my art so as I continued to draw each frame the story developed a bit more. Originally it was just going to be the first hamster being attacked by cherries, but I got bored with the idea after after drawing the third cherry and drew in the second hamster so that is could have some sort of interaction with the first one to make the story more interesting. 





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