(painting,animation) Astar: Return to Planet Danger

I had this class last year in which we had to pretty much do 1 project but with extra prep work. It started with 2 weeks of daily drawings. From those 14 sketches a trend should appear to show you what sort of thing you would be interested in doing. I had sketches of cartoon characters like Spider-man and the Ninja Turtles being bastardized by time. They had been remade over and over again so many times that they lost sight of who they once were. "So we've had the Ninja Turtles travel through time what should we do next? I know lets have them download themselves onto the internet to fight an internet Shredder while looking for broken bits of data that make up Splinter." and that's just what they did.
But anyway after all the sketches had been made and looked through I decided to bring back the War Amps CHAMP robot/mascot Astar. You may remember him from the late 80's to the mid-late 90's. For the halfway mark of the semester i created these 3 acrylic paintings on wood.





For the rest of the semester the professor tried to Show me how to use an animation program but I could easily tell she was just staying one lesson a head of me. She would say things like "This version is on a PC I usually use a Mac." But in my experience there really isn't that much of a difference between the Mac or PC version of an Adobe program. So instead of using any sort of animation software I brought digital animation into the past and made the animation one cell at a time using Photoshop.
Again this animation is very choppy, and has only one level of sound forcing the noise to take turns. Enjoy