At first I made a basic shape of a dolphin (as a path) in 4x the size of the original.
Then I made a set of points, each representing a node of the path, and animated them. (the anim was 12 frames)
I made the shape of the dolphin follow the animated points, and filled the shape with blue.
In this
animation the guidelines (the points for the path) are
still visible. After that, I still had to rework some of
the frames, since a few errors were still visible. After
that, I airbrushed all 12 frames manually. This was
undoubtably the big & hard part of it. I resized the
animation to 2x the original size to keep processor use
down. (plus, it's a bitch when you switch between
Imageready and Photoshop when you have a two megabyte
document.)
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