🧇Kapigator🧇

@kapigator.bsky.social

🧇NSFW artist & Animator | Late 20s | 🌈 | No minors 🔞 🧇Gay lil lady who likes ladies and draws floppy bits for fun! 🧇Socials : https://linktr.ee/kapigator 🧇 Patreon: https://patreon.com/Kapigator 🧇 Commissions: CLOSED

(personal) Spacing charts notes. Spacing charts are a language, their purpose is indicating how drawings will be SPACED in a given timeline, they are given to inbetweeners (animators that do inbetweens) by directors/key animators. Even when producing your own stuff, they are important to utilize.

What the hell does this mean?!
Why are there so many curves??Language

Circles indicate a key frame, underline indicates a Breakdown

Curves like this indicate the drawings are spaced evenly in halves
Curves like this indicate the drawings are spaced in thirds, so it favors one drawing over the other.

Do notice how this curve points at nothing. It means there's more empty space between these drawings as opposed to the other without the empty space.That's all you need to start making charts, so, let's start by imagining your two keys, you are thinking about a head turn, that lasts a second, so 24 frames.

Let's also consider we will be animating in 2's, so every drawing will be held for 2 frames.
So our first drawing will be in frames 1-2 and our last drawing will be in frame 23-24

Let's draw our chart and mart the beginning and end.And now let's mark every frame there will be a drawing. That's 12 drawings in total. 10 drawings between 1 and 23.

Good! Basically, spacing charts just mark the space BETWEEN each key drawing, it's a language that the key animators/directors use to tell the IN-BETWEENERS where to draw things.

Now, let's keep imagining that head turn... Let's say you need it to start fast, and end slow. So, how will you ARRANGE THE SPACE BETWEEN ALL THESE DRAWINGS TO ACHIEVE THAT?

Working on something new lately and can't wait to show you guys! It's a comic that I've been hesitant about creating for quite a while, but for the new year, I want to give it a shot and see how things go! As always, paid patrons will receive early access to these pages before they go public.

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