In order to start getting my head around the movement of my water, I started to sketch out different ways in which I felt a water column would appear and found that this was proving to quite helpful, but, it wasn't helping me in terms of how I would actually get it to that stage. This was proving extremely difficult.
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| Water Drawings Tests |
So after drawing out a few I decided that I needed to find some visual reference of water moving in the style that I want for my animation. It took me a while but I remembered that Avatar:The Last Airbender wasn't just a film but also an animated series (and obviously one of the characters can bend water, so...). After researching Avatar: The Last Airbender, I finally got an understanding of how the water should move and decided to create a very small, short flip book to see how it would look.
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| GIF of my very short flip book. |
So I realise that it's a bit jumpy due to there being only 7 frames, but it gave me a really good idea of how it would look if I were to make my water move using this style. To test this more effectively I'll have to add more in between frames and work on spacing and timing.
Overall, I am pleased that I have finally figured this out and I can now begin to move forward with my animation.
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