2D Animating

     DEFINITELY the most tedious and time-consuming job. This occupation entails taking the designs of the characters and reworking the identical look into various positions and poses, all while creating seamless movement in between. Also, as our leading lady is a transforming, crime-fighting robot, animators must understand various ways of interpreting movement and change in structure (whether it be mechanical or organic). In addition, no animation mishaps are allowed. Each and every final piece of film must be scanned heavily for any mistakes before finalization. Finally, and importantly, there is to be little to absolutely NO tweening animation in the episodes (the "adobe flash" look). The original series used an animation process called "Limited Animation," using a selective frame-by-frame style of motion. In this process, only complex actions receive the full "frame-by-frame" treatment. If a character is somewhat still, the farm-by-frame aspect is reduced greatly, reusing common parts of the character instead of redrawing them. For instance, in an average, non-expressive conversation, characters may only show movement in the face, leaving the body somewhat motionless (with maybe a slight change of position here and there). Ultimately, we will be using this variant of animation, dropping the "adobe-look" entirely.