Topic: Had idea for short gif, don't know how to do it so I'm sharing the idea and asking animation advice

Posted under Art Talk

So I had a lapse in attention while on youtube for a second and stumbled on a Phut Hon video someone apparently made via VRchat. That lapse in attention got me to see something different than the video;
The video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Hej2UBwtBk
What I saw instead:
(Trying to convey the idea without describing enough detail to come off as creepy)
It was the Phut Hon hip sway dance, but the dancer was a male with his dick out and in the mouth of someone else positioned below him (I registered the recipient as male cause my mood right now is set to gay). And essentially, by swaying his hips to the music, the dancer was getting oral from the person under him (The recipient didn't have to move). I also registered that the guy would have a smirk. Maybe it was a POV? I've had these moments before and they are never really clear (or this adult).

Started thinking I'd make an animation for this when I realized I'm a) in a slump currently and it'll be a short bit till I get out. And b)I've never done animation before and the only way I can think to do it is to just use the vid I posted as reference... and make a frame by frame trace... witch doesn't sound cool at all. But I DO know that the camera angle in nice.
Thing is, I also don't know if this idea has been done before, despite a bit of a search (Could have sworn this site had a tag for that song and dance).

And with the caveat that I don't know how else to approach this animation and feeling the approach feels icky, not sure what to do.
So I guess I'm both throwing the idea out there for others, but also asking for advice on animations. I'm an engineer that only dabbles in art, so I've no clue where to start with animating. And using the vid as reference just seems like a smart thing to do. Then my energy levels tell me the next logical step is to trace for the animation, that it's just like using mocap to get 3d animations. But my morals and pride step in and now I'm stuck at square one again and I'm stuck here.

Short of someone else doing it, I'd like to try my hand at a short animation. I just don't know where to start without feeling like I'm cheating.

Edit: Took a break to get food and it dawned on me... I don't know how to animate without drawing every frame. That CAN'T be how everyone else does it. Not where there are tags for frame-by-frame animations.

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