This is the head turn project. This was probably the most difficult one by far. I used Kanata Amane as my subject. She's a Japanese streamer on YouTube and one of my favorite people. Her hair was also short and relatively simple to animate but it was still quite difficult. I dread thinking about animating a head turn using a person with a long and complex hairstyle.

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