Walk in The Sea Barrier, Animation Exploration

Lately, I’ve been exploring different ways to present my works—not just as still images, but also with movement. This time, I tried turning my illustration into a simple animated GIF! It’s not my first attempt at animation, but since I rarely make them, it still feels like a fresh experience. Through this process, I learned the basic principles of walk cycle animation. There are four key poses:

Contact – the normal standing step

Down – when the body lowers as a step begins

Passing – the back leg moves forward, body leaning slightly ahead

Up – the highest point, just before the leg completes the step

For the animation process, I used Krita because its onion skin and animation tools were really helpful. But for combining the character with the background, I still prefer using Kdenlive for now.

I realized how challenging yet fun it is—animation demands consistency, since every movement is drawn frame by frame. For this piece, I kept it simple: copy-pasting, shifting, and redrawing only the moving parts like the legs, hands, and hijab.