Boiling animation

Boiling is the name for the uneven and wobbly lines in animation drawn by hand. Most animators dont like the effect of boiling and try to avoid it, but a few animators do like it, one of the best examples of boiling animation i found was of the old cartoon 'roobarb and custard' created by Bob Godfrey.

You make boiling animation by drawing out the scene you want, then trying to draw it out again as similar as you can make it a few more times, and then putting all the images together on a loop. Because the images are never going to be exactly the same you are always going to get the boiling effect.

Here is a website that explains boiling animation a bit more. http://www.animationpost.co.uk/notes2/wobble.htm

lucy