CITRAPOP borrows from the following sources: "Lollipop" by Mika (Universal Music Group / Casablanca Records) "Citra" character designs/concept by Animation by me.
Yeah, this was frame-by-frame. There's really no trick, just use the light table in the software and make sure it follows the animation principles- ie, arcs, timing, overlap, follow through, squash, stretch, etc.
Damn like I said before the movements, smoother then butter, and as natural as leaves, jeez you got it man. Hey were's that dragon in your avatar from??
Icon is here: [link] - though it looks better shrunk down.
Turns out that movement is the easy (though time consuming) part, clean linework? Now that's hard!