Hi, I'm Chuck Carson, Welcome to "The Animated Pencil" Blog, here I will be adding various animations I've been working on and sometimes talk about the process I use to create the work u will see here. Today I would like to introduce you to a Turtle I created for a project I've been working on, this image was sketched by hand and then imported into illustrator where I inked it, above is the final line art image.

I imported the line art into flash, since I had decided to do the animation in flash I went ahead and added the color there as well, the above image is the final color I went with.

I created a basic walk cycle in flash, this is how it turned out. I'll be using this turtle for various situations in the project, so I'll be posting more animations or looks for him as we move forward.

-Chuck