I like 2-D animation. Actually Justin Rasch who made Geralds Last Day uses 2-D animations to plan his stop motion, and his animation looks really fluid when it's done.

I mean the way the character is balancing, like if you look at the drawing of Dexter's mom second from the bottom, she's pushing off with her foot to put more momentum into her arms, while her other leg is going over to catch that weight before she falls over. And Marc, I did have a wee chat with Justin on youtube about how learning about other types of animation effect stop motion. It shows, too, aside from a few tests, Gerald's last day was their first film in stop motion, and the animation is brilliant!

I like it. Keep up the good work!

m_) I must say that Genndy Tartakovsky's cartoons (Dexter's Lab) have some amusing shapes that really play with gravity from having some very long legs as it is the case with DD to her mom having some super tiny feet, and then dexter totally short that ends up jumping most of the times.

m_) Great show for sure, and I think Genndy did well being approved by Cartoon Cartoons Show to make its own show with it.

m_) Fairie Odd Parents Show (wich by the way Genndy did not make),  on the other hand, are a little too much for me, and the characters don't seem to go anywhere but into some sort of geometry, very bad geometry.

m_) On the other hand, I believe that, if you really want to study fundamentals the best way to go may be using Looney Toones as reference, rather than any modern cartoon. Lately cartoon's approach are not really basing in fundamentals of any sort; they just want simplicity and quickness for effectiveness in the market -which also portrays quite well the decline of art over product-mania.

m_) Anyway, great drawings, and you seem to be very good at copying. So if you are just learning to trace, then anything is a good choice.
But learning fundamentals, I would recommend something a bit more challenging than Dexter's show or Fairer Oddparents'

Marc_H wrote:

Oh, actually what I was doing is copying a few so work out how they're "built" and then drawing them in my own poses.

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Indeed, it worked out quite well. Good job, Marc, seriously. -if I still didn't say that!!

Just suggesting what could also be helpful, that's all.