One of the drawing exercises we had to do was to draw our hand opening. Starting with a closed fist and ending with an open palm, we had to make 10 drawings at 1/10th intervals of this action. These drawings could then be scanned and animated to replicate the movement. I have an animation of the drawings that I made. Although it animated on a continuous loop, which looks better, it didn't export to video as a looped animation and so it's only 1 second long. I guess the drawing part was the most important bit of this exercise. I actually found it hard to do. Keeping the scale consistent was difficult as was holding each pose. In the end I had to cheat a little in that I photographed each pose. Even this was hard enough to do - breaking the movement into 10 separate equally spaced poses.

 

 

 

 

After drawing and scanning each pose I animated them in Photoshop. I included a reverse motion to make a continuously looping video but I'll have to revisit this and correct the export problem.