{"author_link":"\/users\/tommyflower","author_name":"Tommyflower","author_uid":"tommyflower","comments":[],"epoch":1556974897,"event":"LD44","format":"md","ldjam_node_id":156263,"likes":2,"metadata":{"p_key":"132153","p_author":"Tommyflower","p_authorkey":"1014558","p_urlkey":"348347","p_title":"Cat Animation 101 - a little series - Part Four","p_cat":"LDJam ","p_event":"LD44","p_time":"1556974897","p_likes":"2","p_comments":"0","p_status":"WAYBACK","us_key":"1014558","us_name":"Tommyflower","us_username":"tommyflower","event_start":"1556236800","event_key":"75","event_name":"LD 44"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD44","removed_author":false},"_superparent":139254,"_trust":1,"author":14558,"body":"[Read the previous post here](https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/44\/zoltans-idea\/cat-animation-101-a-little-series-part-three)\n\n![immaginipostanimazione_05.gif](\/\/\/raw\/ed8\/3\/z\/2476b.gif)\n\nWhat's the quickest way to draw something so that it looks good enough? **Using the tecnique you are more familiar with**. Period.\n\n**I'm a programmer** as you know if you have read my past posts, and **the pen tool has been a mistery to me for years XD**. I started to use it last year and even if I'm more confident now, I'm deadly slow compared to freehand drawing. Plus the results are actually pretty close. \n\nIf you have time of course vector tracing is the best choice, the result is flawless, but if you, like me, are not so expert in moving, adding and deleting points quickly, just go for a freehand tool, like a basic brush. \n\nChoosing a **thicker** brush also helps a lot to get slicker looking lines.\n\nFor [Zoltan](https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/44\/zoltans-idea)'s cats **I used a 5 pixel hard round brush with no dynamic al 100% opacity **.\n\n","comments":3,"comments-timestamp":"2019-05-04T14:14:08Z","created":"2019-05-03T11:50:59Z","files":[],"files-timestamp":0,"id":156263,"love":2,"love-timestamp":"2019-05-04T13:28:28Z","meta":[],"modified":"2019-05-04T14:14:08Z","name":"Cat Animation 101 - a little series - Part Four","node-timestamp":"2019-05-04T13:01:37Z","parent":140087,"parents":[1,5,9,139254,140087],"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/44\/zoltans-idea\/cat-animation-101-a-little-series-part-four","published":"2019-05-04T13:01:37Z","scope":"public","slug":"cat-animation-101-a-little-series-part-four","subsubtype":"","subtype":"","type":"post","version":471577},"node_metadata":{"n_key":"156263","n_urlkey":"348347","n_parent":"140087","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/44\/zoltans-idea\/cat-animation-101-a-little-series-part-four","n_slug":"cat-animation-101-a-little-serie","n_type":"post","n_subtype":"","n_subsubtype":"","n_author":"14558","n_created":"1556884259","n_modified":"1556979248","n_version":"471577","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"source_url":"https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/44\/zoltans-idea\/cat-animation-101-a-little-series-part-four","text":"[Read the previous post here](https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/44\/zoltans-idea\/cat-animation-101-a-little-series-part-three)\n\n![immaginipostanimazione_05.gif](\/\/\/raw\/ed8\/3\/z\/2476b.gif)\n\nWhat's the quickest way to draw something so that it looks good enough? **Using the tecnique you are more familiar with**. Period.\n\n**I'm a programmer** as you know if you have read my past posts, and **the pen tool has been a mistery to me for years XD**. I started to use it last year and even if I'm more confident now, I'm deadly slow compared to freehand drawing. Plus the results are actually pretty close. \n\nIf you have time of course vector tracing is the best choice, the result is flawless, but if you, like me, are not so expert in moving, adding and deleting points quickly, just go for a freehand tool, like a basic brush. \n\nChoosing a **thicker** brush also helps a lot to get slicker looking lines.\n\nFor [Zoltan](https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/44\/zoltans-idea)'s cats **I used a 5 pixel hard round brush with no dynamic al 100% opacity **.\n\n","title":"Cat Animation 101 - a little series - Part Four","wayback_source":[]}