The Runaway Guys Animated | Dokapon Kingdom: Episode 5 - “Steve’s Journey”
After immortalizing an old friend, Chu- I mean, Steve must continue his journey and overcome the obstacles laid before him in his new form.
With all of my December plans done, I was able to go back to animating, although I still have a few distractions here and there.
This marks the first “skip” I’ve done with The Runaway Guys’ Dokapon let’s play. This video is primarily based on episode 7, skipping 5 and 6 (although there is one bit from episode 5 at the end).
This animation pretty much reminded me how much I hate drawing backgrounds. I spent several days watching other animations to see how other people handled backgrounds. I saw quite a lot of animators on YouTube use very simplified backgrounds, compared to the more complex characters throughout. In the end, I decided to stick with basic shapes for much of the background. In addition, I also decided to ditch giving backgrounds outlines and only gave outlines to the characters and foregrounds. I kind of like how that decision turned out.
Also, while working on this animation, I discovered a bug with Toon Boom that I encountered only once before. Apparently, on rare occasions, the audio would randomly throw itself out of sync. Fortunately, if you just close and then reopen the software, it will be fixed. Unfortunately, if you synced the animation to the audio while it was out of sync, then everything will be out of sync when it’s fixed. Fortunately, all I had to do was reposition a few frames in a few layers in order to handle this, but the outcome could have been worse.