Animating is the key element that puts Sonic the Cat together. Character movement is the main way to express emotion and make your characters more believeable.
Framing and Timing[]
The normal way I use is a 00.03 second frame each time. The frame then fades into the next one using 00.01 seconds of the first frame, and so on. It's mostly visual, sometimes I use illusions to make it look like it moved, but it didn't.
Lyp-sinc[]
Talking is another way to express emotion. Depending on what the character is saying in the scene, you have to do different things. I blend the body movement frames with the lyp-sinc frames since I don't use puppets. I have to draw each frame and change the mouth each time. It's not as confusing as it sounds, actually. Combining lyp-sinc and movement for frames can take over 30 frames or even more.