Sketch Animation: Transformers 3 Dark of the Moon - Official Trailer 2 (Part 1)

This is part 1 of a traditional animation pass on the Transformers 3 Dark of the Moon - Official Trailer.

It was animated with a Wacom tablet in Toon Boom Animate.

To really just live in the drawing you need to set aside the thoughts of timing and form - using movie trailers as reference is a good way to do that. There is also lot to learn from each frame of a trailer from an editing perspective.

With this animation technique the quirks from your drawing style still get into the animation, but you don't need to slave over timing and form quite as much as you would doing traditional drawn animation from scratch.

I'll be posting the additional animation passes on this Transformers 3 trailer as they go up over the next couple weeks.