This time I tried my hand at motion blurring, overlapping action, cutting to a new shot and compositing on backgrounds.

For inspiration I looked at Ohira Shinya's work.

For preparation I studied a world champion boomerang thrower:

The first pass of animation contains a handful of extremes to determine the timing:

Final pass:

For animating the boomerang I turned to the perspective principle from Richard Williams' book.

After I made the final pass I thought of leaving it as is, but decided to give it a bit more depth. I considered coloring the character with charcoal on paper, however I was hesitant of the mess it would give so I painted digitally using Krita:

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The backgrounds I did make with charcoal:

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Opentoonz was used to composite all the layers together and lift the camera:

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