Today we were working more on our animation. I managed to get the spell cast mapped out in class and partially at home this evening:
I had a lot of fun with this one, I’m added some little details from the animatic but otherwise it’s pretty similar to the original concept. I added her looking down at the book part way through the spell rune just because I think it added some believability to the character: she’s a student, she’s learning, she’s not quite sure of this particular spell yet. I also added a pause before she hit’s the spell with her palm to activate the rune; again, I thought this added a little believability to the idea that she isn’t quite sure, she’s waiting for a moment before tentatively patting the rune to activate. Reference for spell casting in my animation comes heavily from Owl House, who also use magic to draw runes in the air or on paper, and tap to activate. I really love this idea:
I decided to put together all of my animations so far, just to see the flow. I’m pretty happy with it to be honest, I need to work out how I’m going to navigate from one scene to the other as they’re a bit jarring at the moment, the purpose was just to view it all together so and it’s really fun to see it playing out – I’m really proud of the amount i’ve learned and improved in terms of timing and secondary action and I think that the improvements are evident in what I’m doing – It’s making me very excited to start working on the final product. The video belows consist of the animation above, this animation and this animation:
At the moment I think I’m on track to fit this all in to about 30 seconds. I’ve gotten the more difficult parts out of the way now, bar learning how to use the 2D camera on after effects, and am now just roughly animating the easy looping animations that are left. I’m aiming to have the entire thing finished in its rough form by next Thursday. Then it’s just a matter of getting it cleaned up and coloured for the deadline on the 21st. I know that this is going to be a lot of work, but I’m determined to get this done, I think I’m capable of it and I don’t really want to sacrifice anything from the animation.