The BIRDS!!!

Setting the beach scene in this forth-coming animation required a foraging seagull really anyways, but I'm glad I managed to squeeze in a nod to the suspense of the Alfred Hitchcock film I remember from my childhood. Although, admittedly it is hard to make one, lonely seagull as sinister as a crowd of silent, staring ones. Making diagnostic drawings of gulls from different angles and in different positions definitely helped make animating one a lot easier. The movement was easier to figure out having done the still sketches than by just working from memory of how a seagull moves.