Tongue

Whilst staying in East London, I stumbled across a load of street art which is quite prominent around the Shoreditch/Bethnal Green area. One image which triggered the idea for this clip was based on graffiti I saw of a vibrant coloured wolf with a long tongue. Instantly I had the idea of incorporating a similar tongue into my animated project by using a similar design.

I researched into many different styles of tongue or tongue-like illustrations which would help me find the right consistency of how I would like to animate it.

My design was similar to the one I saw, which featured a tongue that looked as if it was rolled out like a carpet. 

I began by creating the overall shape of the tongue. From there, I worked backwards and improvised on how I wanted the tongue to unfold. Upon searching animated tongue videos in order to reference the motion, I came across a video which helped me understand the movement of the tongue. In particular, I was able to understand how the tongue flaps from one position to another by slowing down the video and watching frame-by-frame.

Once I was happy with the animation, I added some extra details and refined the lines in order to make it look more like a tongue.