Where the Veil Came Crumbling Down

So good character animation takes a lot of time and concentration. Effects animation takes a lot of time and concentration, plus it can get much more tedious and detailed. I actually enjoy how tedious and detailed it gets, but when there isn't 24 hour access to whatever is needed to animate it becomes even more difficult to do. So after a week of stressing because I couldn't focus on the effects within the relatively small timeframe for the lab (for animating in TV Paint), it hit me that if I did only the character animation in TV Paint, but the effects animation in Toon Boom, all of my problems are instantly solved. There's a lot of other advantages I've come to realize about this, but that's the main one. The only downside is that this means an additional step of combining the various elements of each shot will be necessary next quarter, but I think that's a small price to pay for actual time to focus on the animation.

This shot's not done yet, especially apparent in the sloppy fire loop at the end, but it's a start. I'm very excited.