2D: Head Turn

When I was first given this exercise I thought it was going to be quite simple, however when it came round to animating I quickly got stuck. Finding it difficult I figured planning it out in my drawing book and doing a few sketches would help a lot. Here I had a clear plan of how I was going to structure it, I drew out the key poses, an arc in which I would animate on, and also planned out timings making sure it eased in and eased out.

Sketches for animation 

I was overall happy with my animated head turn, however there were a few things which I could definitely improve. For some reason my arc which the head moves on seems too long, I could of perhaps made it smaller and steeper, which would have made the head turn quicker and also more dramatic. Moving on from this I could next time practise using a more complex character, as the one I used was very simple and having more complex features would present even more challenges.

2D head Turn