The Basics of Animation

I have just discovered that i can blog at work! whohooooo

I sit here for 5 hours on a thursday bored out of my tree! or sketching of course.
I have been reading a book on animation, and the fundimental elements of animation. Upon taking onboard some very useful facts and infomation, I decided to have a crack at some very raw animation of my own.

Here is what I ended up with:



Not bad for a first attempt? Also the whole animation is one single drawing cut up into "limbs" of which are then placed on seperate layers.