One of my first edits, I'll always be proud of its reception online and how it foreshadowed my style I'm most proud of how the text turned out. Making the most of every second, I switch between fonts and sizes as much as possible. The ending portion was drawn in Procreate, converted into a GIF, and imported later on. I wanted to ensure that each word felt impactful. To achieve this, I created three versions of each subtitle: stretched, squashed, and normal. playing them quickly one after another, it gave each word some weight; however, I still felt that more was needed I decided to lower the framerate. Everything I've worked on up to that point was in 30 or 60 frames per second (fps), meaning that 30 or 60 images would play in a single second, respectively. I lowered the framerate to 16 fps. A similar process is done in animation to both reduce the production time and give actions more fluidity. For example, animating something in twos with 24fps means that each image is shown twice. Thus, each second has 12 unique drawings. This is then broken to include frames of ones or longer to give movement anticipation. Cutouts also became part of my style. It was a nice way of transition between clips, and the choppy and imperfect cuts that were drawn frame by frame give it a homemade, natural feel. Below is an example of this technique from a different edit.
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