After last week’s tutorial session I had to really buckle down and work because I did not have that much to show last week.

Backgrounds

Background 1:

My inital starting background needed changing, the persepctive was all wrong so needed to get that sorted. This also created more space that I needed to work with which was a bit annoying and I wasn’t sure what I was supposed to do with it. So my idea was to try and make it blurry and not a focual point so it wouldn’t matter that much. It could still do with some more details like some shading for a more 3D look. I kept the neon part of the background so it has that cyber feel to it.

Background 2:

From the feedback I got back the background looks nice but there are areas of improvement such as the the pipe in the foreground could be darker so the background stands out more. Also the three pipes to the left would be more suited to the centre as it is the focual point that I want the viewer focus on. So I flipped that and it definitely works much better.

Background 3:

This background wasn’t ready last week so it is this week’s work. There isn’t much to this background as it’s a low vantage point. There probably should be some buildings but that seemed a bit complicated so tried the blurry thing again. The background isn’t shown for very long so I think it should work out just fine. I then worked on a three frame effect. Mostly I did this because the sequence would take too long coming down so this method is faster and more appealing in my opinion.

Animation Draft:

As I have running and jumping in my animation I did need to use some sort of reference to make it look natural. During the making of the animation I performed some of the movement myself to get a good idea and feel of how it should look when drawn for the character. This included moving my arms to the correct positions and using my own feet to know how the foot moves when running.

My Animation looks pretty good I think, the motion is visible and is shows everything that I want. However there is an improvement that I may need to make according to the teachers. And that is the side view of the main character A13X inbetween 1 and 2 seconds. The teachers feel that this part is too fast for the viewer and I agree now that they pointed it out. I think I may have a solution that could work and that is taking a frame out of the end bit and add it to that fast part. Another solution is that I take a part out to make the fast part longer, but that is plan B, so hopefully plan A will work.

Group Presentation

This is my group’s presentation to the class about our animation and our learning experience. To be honest I didn’t have much to do with the presentation but we all did something to create this together.

Using Discord, the group was able to spend time together to make the presenation. We get onto a call whenever we feel we need to have a group disccusion that requires instant answers. There is usually someone about generally but this is the most effective method of figuring out what to do. Even though there’s text messages most days, hearing a voice or a laugh and even a moan is quite refreshing to hear.

Animation Final

This is the final look of my animation segment after the feedback that I was given for it. I think that it looks a lot better.