In this video you’ll see my process for animating goopy clouds and smoke style animations.
Animating has a weird way of warping time, because you’re thinking frame by frame in slow motion. It takes so many hours to animate only a few seconds worth of movement. The result is that real life gets sped up, while the animation world you’re making moves at a snail’s pace.
It’s also interesting that whatever subject matter you’re drawing or focusing on, you notice it a lot more in real life. While I was animating clouds, I was ultra aware of all the nuances and differences in shapes and color of the clouds in the sky.
When I would go on my daily walk, I would almost feel overstimulated trying to take in all the cloud shapes in the vast sky. There’s something humbling about looking into the infinite sky and realizing you’re only seeing an incredibly small portion of all the sky and clouds that exist at this moment in time on planet earth.
These clouds are from the Super Clouds Pack
