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Hand Animation Experiment



I decided to do a quick practice animation to test the software I used to use when I was younger. The app is called iMotion and while its pretty basic, limited to only manually taking photos or making time lapses. The app doesn't really allow individual frames to be removed or imported meaning that all the photos taken have to be perfect or the whole scene has to be redone. The animation runs at 18 frames per second to make it look a little smoother. The second half of the animation looks a lot better than the first because I started moving the fingers more individually making the movement appear a little more realistic, as if the fingers are actually dragging the hands. The only issue was the lighting flashing toward the end. I’m still a little unsure as as to whether the flash was caused by my own shadow making one of the frames appear darker than the others, or if it was caused by the two light sources being inconsistent. However, I am pretty sure it must have been the former due to the lighting being pretty smooth in the first half.

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