Okay, hi Fen and whoever else may be here. Let’s just get straight into it, First of all, don’t put smear frames is eye blinks unless the pupil moves as or before the eye is blinking, and if the pupil moves only smear the pupil. You can make a simple eye blink with only 5 frames: 1. The eye, open and normal 2. The eye, open wider 3. The eye closed 4. The eye closed tighter (just squish it down with the transform tool) 5. The eye open wider again. Those are the frames I used to do my eye blink, with the exception of me adding the eye half-closed between the eye open wide and closed eye. “Why does the eye open wide before blinking?” In my opinion, it gives the animation a more bouncy, smooth look that’s pleasing to look at and easy to do. “I want to draw smear frames, but how? Do I just take the frame and make it weird and messy or is there a technique?” When drawing smear frames, your conveying quick flashes of motion, which means you don’t want to have lots of smear frames it a row. When drawing smear frames you have to pay attention to where the object is going and how you’re going to smear it. There’s many types of smear frames you can play around with such as quick whips of colour, stretched and contorting ones and even adding more limbs to something to make it look like it’s moving. “Should i animate on scratch or-?” No. Okay well, yes but it takes way to much patience and concentration. Scratch sucks with animations that aren’t simple characters made by the reshape tool. I suggest getting FlipaClip, yes it does add a logo onto anything you post outside (unless you have premium, which you only have to pay for once and you have it forever, like me.) but it’s a great app for beginners to make sketch animations. If you want to go on the more shading, lighting, intricate coloring etc. you can get Procreate (my main animation app.) but in order to animate there you have to understand groups, clipping mask, layer settings and a whole bunch of other stuff. Welp, that’s it. B y e
Note: I’m nowhere near a professional animator but this is just what I know use it to the best of your abilities I guess idk
