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Rolf’s Roller Rules (OK?)

We’ve been flooded with letters with
so much marvellous artwork and l’d
just like to congratulate you all on
the stunning work you’ve done.
Many of the drawings we got were
Rolf’s Rollers and some of them
work, some of them work
marvellously well, and some don’t
work too well at all, so I thought I
should work out why and pass on the
information to you.
The most important thing of course
is that the two pictures must make a
constantly repeating action. It’s no
good having a boy on a diving board
in one picture and then have him
plunging into the water in the next.
You could have him on tip-toe on the
board in one picture and then I
bouncing down with the board in a
lower position in the second picture.
Then, when you animate it, he will
appear to bounce up and down. In
the previous example, he would go
from the water up onto the diving
board then back to the water ... not
possible.
lt’s the same with two pictures of a
horse going over a hurdle. It won't
work as a RoIf’s Roller! lt must be a
reciprocal (good word) two part
action, like a cork swinging back and
forth on a string.

NOW, SOME OTHER TIPS...
FIRST Give the drawing room. (Leave white space on either side of your drawing.)
SECOND Keep the action simple and make the movement small. (Your eye doesn’t
understand the animation if things move too far.)
THIRD Wherever possible, keep the drawing with the most movements for the top
piece of paper. It also makes a dramatic improvement in the effect if the movement
ls in the same direction as the top piece of paper is unrolling. (See Boxing
examples)
FOURTH lf possible, help your eye by making the bit that moves a darker colour in
both drawings. (Don‘t trick your eye by maklng the bit that is to move on drawing A
really dark, and then quite light on drawing B with something else In the picture
really dark.) (See Man with a Mallet examples)
FlFTH Make sure the anatomy works even if you use stick figures.
SIXTH Add visual echoes - little action lines to show where the movement came
from. (See Chest Expander examples)

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