An animal smokes a cigarette in the dark (Patreon)

Hello! Here's a little process gif of a shot I'm working on.

Animating in sillhouettes is fun! It feels like it should be less work because there's less detail, but without the internal information communicating form and depth, it's hard to know where the edges are meant to go. So for this shot, I started by animating some cutout pieces as a guide, where I figured out the rotations. Then I animated frame-by-frame over the top to wrap skin around the pieces, and to add in the arms.